Triple

T7372062
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British South Africa E170029 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object Swaziland Protectorate
Swaziland Protectorate was a British colonial protectorate in Southern Africa that preceded the modern independent nation of Eswatini.
E661662 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: Swaziland Protectorate | Statement: [British South Africa, associatedWith, Swaziland Protectorate]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Swaziland Protectorate
Context triple: [British South Africa, associatedWith, Swaziland Protectorate]
  • A. 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.
  • B. British Protectorate of Basutoland
    The British Protectorate of Basutoland was a southern African territory under British colonial rule from the late 19th century until 1966, when it gained independence as the Kingdom of Lesotho.
  • 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. Nyasaland
    Nyasaland was a former British protectorate in southeastern Africa that later became the independent nation of Malawi in 1964.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Swaziland Protectorate
Triple: [British South Africa, associatedWith, Swaziland Protectorate]
Generated description
Swaziland Protectorate was a British colonial protectorate in Southern Africa that preceded the modern independent nation of Eswatini.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Swaziland Protectorate
Target entity description: Swaziland Protectorate was a British colonial protectorate in Southern Africa that preceded the modern independent nation of Eswatini.
  • A. 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.
  • B. British Protectorate of Basutoland
    The British Protectorate of Basutoland was a southern African territory under British colonial rule from the late 19th century until 1966, when it gained independence as the Kingdom of Lesotho.
  • 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. Nyasaland
    Nyasaland was a former British protectorate in southeastern Africa that later became the independent nation of Malawi in 1964.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69c810de7618819099ab4ff328255d92 completed March 28, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8118441948190a80873b98ea3fd30 completed March 28, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8125baee8819084a4008c791d7431 completed March 28, 2026, 5:39 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:07 p.m.