Triple

T7372055
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British South Africa E170029 entity
Predicate expansionLinkedTo P76627 FINISHED
Object Scramble for Africa E17967 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Scramble for Africa | Statement: [British South Africa, expansionLinkedTo, Scramble for Africa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Scramble for Africa
Context triple: [British South Africa, expansionLinkedTo, Scramble for Africa]
  • A. Scramble for Africa chosen
    The Scramble for Africa was a late 19th-century period of rapid European colonization and partition of African territories, driven by imperial rivalry, economic interests, and strategic ambitions.
  • B. Fashoda Incident
    The Fashoda Incident was an 1898 imperial confrontation between Britain and France in Sudan that nearly triggered war and symbolized the climax of their colonial rivalry in Africa.
  • C. Anglo-Ashanti Wars
    The Anglo-Ashanti Wars were a series of 19th-century conflicts between the British Empire and the Ashanti Empire in present-day Ghana, fought over control of trade, territory, and regional influence in West Africa.
  • D. Berlin Conference
    The Berlin Conference was an 1884–1885 meeting of European powers in Berlin that formalized the partition of Africa and set the rules for colonial expansion on the continent.
  • E. Conquest of Sudan
    The Conquest of Sudan was the 19th-century Egyptian military campaign that brought much of Sudan under Ottoman-Egyptian control, laying the groundwork for later Anglo-Egyptian rule.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: expansionLinkedTo
Context triple: [British South Africa, expansionLinkedTo, Scramble for Africa]
  • A. expansionAdded
    Indicates that an additional component, feature, or content has been incorporated into an existing entity or system.
  • B. expansionAlongside
    Indicates that one entity expands or grows in parallel with, and in relation to, the expansion of another entity.
  • C. expandedBy
    Indicates that one entity increases, elaborates, or builds upon the scope, detail, or extent of another entity.
  • D. expandsIn
    Indicates that one entity grows, spreads, or extends its presence or influence within the space, scope, or context defined by another entity.
  • E. expands
    Indicates that one entity increases in size, volume, scope, or extent relative to a previous state or another entity.
  • 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_69c68a5bfaac81909ce7f001dfb70c76 completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f18451d88190ad4a2674279bb703 completed March 27, 2026, 9:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c802c711788190806987567dbc9942 completed March 28, 2026, 4:33 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69c6f02ee3e08190a7a00c981129b22c completed March 27, 2026, 9:01 p.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69c6f0ebf9c88190af5a4d87d3fd338a completed March 27, 2026, 9:04 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:07 p.m.