Triple

T6006143
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen E133713 entity
Predicate historyOfTopic P1451 FINISHED
Object British colonization of Sumatra
The British colonization of Sumatra refers to the period when the British established and administered trading posts and territorial holdings—most notably around Bencoolen (Bengkulu)—to control pepper and other regional trade in competition with Dutch influence in the Indonesian archipelago.
E561773 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 colonization of Sumatra | Statement: [Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen, historyOfTopic, British colonization of Sumatra]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British colonization of Sumatra
Context triple: [Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen, historyOfTopic, British colonization of Sumatra]
  • A. British occupation of Java
    The British occupation of Java was a brief period from 1811 to 1816 when the British East India Company governed the island after seizing it from the Dutch during the Napoleonic Wars.
  • B. Japanese conquest of Southeast Asia
    The Japanese conquest of Southeast Asia was a rapid World War II campaign in which Imperial Japan seized key European colonial territories across the region to secure resources and strategic dominance.
  • C. Pamalayu expedition to Sumatra
    The Pamalayu expedition to Sumatra was a late 13th-century naval and military campaign launched by the Javanese Singhasari Kingdom to assert influence over the Malay polities in central Sumatra and control key maritime trade routes.
  • D. British administration of Java
    The British administration of Java was a brief period (1811–1816) during which the British East India Company governed the island after seizing it from the Dutch in the Napoleonic Wars, introducing significant administrative and economic reforms.
  • E. Aceh War
    The Aceh War was a protracted late-19th- to early-20th-century conflict in northern Sumatra in which the Dutch fought to subdue the independent Sultanate of Aceh, becoming one of the bloodiest and most significant colonial wars in Indonesian history.
  • 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 colonization of Sumatra
Triple: [Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen, historyOfTopic, British colonization of Sumatra]
Generated description
The British colonization of Sumatra refers to the period when the British established and administered trading posts and territorial holdings—most notably around Bencoolen (Bengkulu)—to control pepper and other regional trade in competition with Dutch influence in the Indonesian archipelago.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British colonization of Sumatra
Target entity description: The British colonization of Sumatra refers to the period when the British established and administered trading posts and territorial holdings—most notably around Bencoolen (Bengkulu)—to control pepper and other regional trade in competition with Dutch influence in the Indonesian archipelago.
  • A. British occupation of Java
    The British occupation of Java was a brief period from 1811 to 1816 when the British East India Company governed the island after seizing it from the Dutch during the Napoleonic Wars.
  • B. Japanese conquest of Southeast Asia
    The Japanese conquest of Southeast Asia was a rapid World War II campaign in which Imperial Japan seized key European colonial territories across the region to secure resources and strategic dominance.
  • C. Pamalayu expedition to Sumatra
    The Pamalayu expedition to Sumatra was a late 13th-century naval and military campaign launched by the Javanese Singhasari Kingdom to assert influence over the Malay polities in central Sumatra and control key maritime trade routes.
  • D. British administration of Java
    The British administration of Java was a brief period (1811–1816) during which the British East India Company governed the island after seizing it from the Dutch in the Napoleonic Wars, introducing significant administrative and economic reforms.
  • E. Aceh War
    The Aceh War was a protracted late-19th- to early-20th-century conflict in northern Sumatra in which the Dutch fought to subdue the independent Sultanate of Aceh, becoming one of the bloodiest and most significant colonial wars in Indonesian history.
  • F. None of above. chosen

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_69c00872444c8190bfaf1739dcec765c completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c04f128354819088971ee398cbda77 completed March 22, 2026, 8:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c10895559081908b9efdd32ecef37f completed March 23, 2026, 9:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c10b7467e88190955014bc060b20e4 completed March 23, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c10c0a001c81908e3ca53e9491ff9a completed March 23, 2026, 9:46 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:06 p.m.