Triple
T6647406
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Treaty of Alcáçovas |
E150736
|
entity |
| Predicate | allocatedTo |
P1043
|
FINISHED |
| Object | West African trade – Kingdom of Portugal |
E119653
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: West African trade – Kingdom of Portugal | Statement: [Treaty of Alcáçovas, allocatedTo, West African trade – Kingdom of Portugal]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: West African trade – Kingdom of Portugal Context triple: [Treaty of Alcáçovas, allocatedTo, West African trade – Kingdom of Portugal]
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A.
Portuguese Gold Coast
chosen
The Portuguese Gold Coast was a former Portuguese colonial possession on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, centered on fortified trading posts that played a key role in early European involvement in the Atlantic slave and gold trades.
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B.
Dahomey and the Slave Trade
"Dahomey and the Slave Trade" is a historical study by Karl Polanyi examining the economic and social structures of the Kingdom of Dahomey in relation to the Atlantic slave trade.
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C.
Atlantic slave trade
The Atlantic slave trade was a transoceanic system from the 16th to 19th centuries in which millions of Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas and sold into chattel slavery, profoundly shaping the economic and social history of the Atlantic world.
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D.
Portuguese expansion into North Africa
Portuguese expansion into North Africa was a series of early 15th- and 16th-century military and maritime campaigns through which Portugal seized key coastal cities and fortresses across the Maghreb, laying foundations for its wider overseas empire.
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E.
Dutch Gold Coast
The Dutch Gold Coast was a former colonial territory of the Netherlands on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, centered on a network of coastal forts and trading posts involved in the Atlantic slave trade and commerce in gold and other goods.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69c687f1a3048190828b7342f7125d5c |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6b01eb9148190a3f462e57c7556c2 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 4:28 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c6eef6def8819084bccdf6f11e63da |
completed | March 27, 2026, 8:56 p.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2 p.m.