Triple

T7071811
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland E164716 entity
Predicate memberTerritory P19260 FINISHED
Object Nyasaland
Nyasaland was a former British protectorate in southeastern Africa that later became the independent nation of Malawi in 1964.
E643063 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: Nyasaland | Statement: [Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, memberTerritory, Nyasaland]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nyasaland
Context triple: [Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, memberTerritory, Nyasaland]
  • A. Northern Rhodesia
    Northern Rhodesia was a former British protectorate in south-central Africa that later became the independent nation of Zambia in 1964.
  • B. Rhodesia
    Rhodesia was an unrecognized, white-minority-ruled state in southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979 in the territory of modern-day Zimbabwe.
  • C. Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
    The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was a mid-20th-century semi-autonomous colonial union in southern Africa that combined the territories of modern-day Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi under British rule.
  • D. Bechuanaland Protectorate
    The Bechuanaland Protectorate was a British colonial territory in Southern Africa that existed from the late 19th century until it gained independence as the Republic of Botswana in 1966.
  • E. Transvaal
    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.
  • 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: Nyasaland
Triple: [Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, memberTerritory, Nyasaland]
Generated description
Nyasaland was a former British protectorate in southeastern Africa that later became the independent nation of Malawi in 1964.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nyasaland
Target entity description: Nyasaland was a former British protectorate in southeastern Africa that later became the independent nation of Malawi in 1964.
  • A. Northern Rhodesia
    Northern Rhodesia was a former British protectorate in south-central Africa that later became the independent nation of Zambia in 1964.
  • B. Rhodesia
    Rhodesia was an unrecognized, white-minority-ruled state in southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979 in the territory of modern-day Zimbabwe.
  • C. Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
    The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was a mid-20th-century semi-autonomous colonial union in southern Africa that combined the territories of modern-day Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi under British rule.
  • D. Bechuanaland Protectorate
    The Bechuanaland Protectorate was a British colonial territory in Southern Africa that existed from the late 19th century until it gained independence as the Republic of Botswana in 1966.
  • E. Transvaal
    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.
  • 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_69c6887b96548190a8a9b3ac8adf4119 completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e77415e88190ab65137382f1b155 completed March 27, 2026, 8:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7a31a43b481908e535afc393b242a completed March 28, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7a3e11f648190adf7210cee954c3d completed March 28, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7a428dd048190a846bfb6d10b60e7 completed March 28, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:39 p.m.