Triple

T5806671
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Navigation Act 1673 E128760 entity
Predicate relatedTo P37 FINISHED
Object British colonial policy
British colonial policy refers to the system of laws, economic controls, and administrative practices through which Britain governed and exploited its overseas colonies, particularly to secure trade advantages and imperial power.
E130931 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: British colonial policy | Statement: [Navigation Act 1673, relatedTo, British colonial policy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British colonial policy
Context triple: [Navigation Act 1673, relatedTo, British colonial policy]
  • A. British policies in India
    British policies in India were the colonial-era administrative, economic, and social measures imposed by the British government that reshaped Indian society, economy, and governance, often provoking resistance and nationalist movements.
  • B. British colonial period
    The British colonial period was the era when the British Empire exercised political, economic, and administrative control over large parts of the world, including the Indian subcontinent, profoundly shaping their societies and institutions.
  • C. British colonial authorities
    British colonial authorities were the representatives and governing institutions of the British Crown that administered and controlled its American colonies prior to and during the American Revolution.
  • D. British Resident system
    The British Resident system was a colonial governance arrangement in the Federated Malay States whereby British officials, styled Residents, exercised decisive administrative authority while local rulers retained nominal sovereignty.
  • E. British conquest of India
    The British conquest of India was the gradual establishment of British colonial rule over the Indian subcontinent from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century, culminating in the dominance of the British Raj.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: British colonial policy
Triple: [Navigation Act 1673, relatedTo, British colonial policy]
Generated description
British colonial policy refers to the system of laws, economic controls, and administrative practices through which Britain governed and exploited its overseas colonies, particularly to secure trade advantages and imperial power.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British colonial policy
Target entity description: British colonial policy refers to the system of laws, economic controls, and administrative practices through which Britain governed and exploited its overseas colonies, particularly to secure trade advantages and imperial power.
  • A. British policies in India
    British policies in India were the colonial-era administrative, economic, and social measures imposed by the British government that reshaped Indian society, economy, and governance, often provoking resistance and nationalist movements.
  • B. British colonial period chosen
    The British colonial period was the era when the British Empire exercised political, economic, and administrative control over large parts of the world, including the Indian subcontinent, profoundly shaping their societies and institutions.
  • C. British colonial authorities
    British colonial authorities were the representatives and governing institutions of the British Crown that administered and controlled its American colonies prior to and during the American Revolution.
  • D. British Resident system
    The British Resident system was a colonial governance arrangement in the Federated Malay States whereby British officials, styled Residents, exercised decisive administrative authority while local rulers retained nominal sovereignty.
  • E. British conquest of India
    The British conquest of India was the gradual establishment of British colonial rule over the Indian subcontinent from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century, culminating in the dominance of the British Raj.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69c00846a0d881909e46841f8e156b64 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c02b15d8108190b434da42631c4e0c completed March 22, 2026, 5:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0983a0b648190ba2c76434d3b1b58 completed March 23, 2026, 1:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c099c8c9448190a3847ac984123d7a completed March 23, 2026, 1:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c09a458c488190b9e2716fc47cf601 completed March 23, 2026, 1:41 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:52 p.m.