Triple

T6855763
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Orange River Colony E158136 entity
Predicate borderedBy P224 FINISHED
Object Transvaal Colony E14155 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: Transvaal Colony | Statement: [Orange River Colony, borderedBy, Transvaal Colony]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Transvaal Colony
Context triple: [Orange River Colony, borderedBy, Transvaal Colony]
  • A. Colony of Natal
    The Colony of Natal was a British colonial territory in southeastern Africa, centered on the port of Durban, that existed from the mid-19th century until it became part of the Union of South Africa in 1910.
  • B. Transvaal chosen
    Transvaal was a former Boer republic and later British colony in what is now northeastern South Africa, central to the conflicts and politics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Province of Natal
    The Province of Natal was a former administrative region of South Africa that existed from 1910 to 1994, encompassing the area around Durban and Pietermaritzburg along the country’s eastern coast.
  • D. Cape Colony
    Cape Colony was a former European settlement and strategic refreshment station at the southern tip of Africa that developed into a key hub of trade, migration, and colonial expansion.
  • E. Boer Republic of Natalia
    The Boer Republic of Natalia was a short-lived 19th-century Boer-ruled republic in southeastern Africa that existed before being incorporated into British-controlled Natal.
  • 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_69c6882fae988190864cbba788c5ebb4 completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d86f03ac8190b4307156ab65a276 completed March 27, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7427dda908190953cf8b535249980 completed March 28, 2026, 2:52 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:20 p.m.