Triple
T8353043
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Patrice Lumumba |
E196608
|
entity |
| Predicate | opposedBy |
P437
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
secessionist State of Katanga
The secessionist State of Katanga was a mineral-rich breakaway region in the Congo that declared independence in 1960 under Moïse Tshombe, becoming a focal point of Cold War tensions and conflict during the Congo Crisis.
|
E727526
|
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: secessionist State of Katanga | Statement: [Patrice Lumumba, opposedBy, secessionist State of Katanga]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: secessionist State of Katanga Context triple: [Patrice Lumumba, opposedBy, secessionist State of Katanga]
-
A.
Republic of Zoutpansberg
The Republic of Zoutpansberg was a short-lived 19th-century Boer polity in what is now northern South Africa, centered around the Zoutpansberg mountain region before being absorbed into the South African Republic.
-
B.
Congo Free State
The Congo Free State was a vast Central African territory privately controlled by Belgium’s King Leopold II in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, notorious for extreme exploitation and atrocities during European colonial expansion.
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C.
Bissau Autonomous Sector
Bissau Autonomous Sector is a special administrative region in Guinea-Bissau that encompasses the national capital, Bissau, and functions similarly to a capital district.
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D.
Kingdom of Kongo
The Kingdom of Kongo was a powerful precolonial Central African state, centered in what is now northern Angola and surrounding regions, known for its complex political organization and early contact with European powers.
-
E.
Trust Territory of Ruanda-Urundi
The Trust Territory of Ruanda-Urundi was a former United Nations–administered territory in central Africa, comprising present-day Rwanda and Burundi under Belgian administration until their independence in the early 1960s.
- 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: secessionist State of Katanga Triple: [Patrice Lumumba, opposedBy, secessionist State of Katanga]
Generated description
The secessionist State of Katanga was a mineral-rich breakaway region in the Congo that declared independence in 1960 under Moïse Tshombe, becoming a focal point of Cold War tensions and conflict during the Congo Crisis.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: secessionist State of Katanga Target entity description: The secessionist State of Katanga was a mineral-rich breakaway region in the Congo that declared independence in 1960 under Moïse Tshombe, becoming a focal point of Cold War tensions and conflict during the Congo Crisis.
-
A.
Republic of Zoutpansberg
The Republic of Zoutpansberg was a short-lived 19th-century Boer polity in what is now northern South Africa, centered around the Zoutpansberg mountain region before being absorbed into the South African Republic.
-
B.
Congo Free State
The Congo Free State was a vast Central African territory privately controlled by Belgium’s King Leopold II in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, notorious for extreme exploitation and atrocities during European colonial expansion.
-
C.
Bissau Autonomous Sector
Bissau Autonomous Sector is a special administrative region in Guinea-Bissau that encompasses the national capital, Bissau, and functions similarly to a capital district.
-
D.
Kingdom of Kongo
The Kingdom of Kongo was a powerful precolonial Central African state, centered in what is now northern Angola and surrounding regions, known for its complex political organization and early contact with European powers.
-
E.
Trust Territory of Ruanda-Urundi
The Trust Territory of Ruanda-Urundi was a former United Nations–administered territory in central Africa, comprising present-day Rwanda and Burundi under Belgian administration until their independence in the early 1960s.
- 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_69ca82f08b348190bfb7881944bbff6f |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cb80460f048190aa298ddffde1047d |
completed | March 31, 2026, 8:05 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cdc75e94288190ba1905dd4ca172dd |
completed | April 2, 2026, 1:33 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69cdcc86626c8190a4206feedea24b41 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 1:55 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69cdcde02e088190be8220f7d18d6700 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 2:01 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:59 p.m.