Triple

T8166944
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Natal, South Africa E190715 entity
Predicate annexedBy P960 FINISHED
Object British Empire E2886 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: British Empire | Statement: [Natal, South Africa, annexedBy, British Empire]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Empire
Context triple: [Natal, South Africa, annexedBy, British Empire]
  • A. British Empire chosen
    The British Empire was a vast global colonial empire dominated by Britain that, at its height, controlled territories on every inhabited continent and profoundly shaped modern political, economic, and cultural history.
  • B. A United Kingdom
    A United Kingdom is a 2016 historical drama film that portrays the real-life romance and political struggle between Seretse Khama, heir to the throne of Bechuanaland (now Botswana), and his British wife Ruth Williams in the face of intense opposition from both the British government and Khama’s own people.
  • C. Dominions of the British Empire
    The Dominions of the British Empire were semi-autonomous, self-governing polities within the British Empire—such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—that recognized the British monarch as head of state while managing their own internal affairs.
  • D. English Commonwealth
    The English Commonwealth was the republican government that ruled England (and later Scotland and Ireland) from 1649 to 1660 following the execution of Charles I and the abolition of the monarchy.
  • E. Britannia
    Britannia is a small village in the Rossendale borough of Lancashire, England, historically associated with local industry and moorland landscapes.
  • 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_69ca82c0ef14819083713f4473dd847c completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb46680fac81908df134df9bf84915 completed March 31, 2026, 3:58 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ccbef9f28881909961b599d395d6df completed April 1, 2026, 6:45 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:39 p.m.