Triple
T8495785
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Mannar District (Tamil-speaking areas) |
E201094
|
entity |
| Predicate | colonialHistory |
P3812
|
FINISHED |
| Object | British Ceylon |
E13053
|
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 Ceylon | Statement: [Mannar District (Tamil-speaking areas), colonialHistory, British Ceylon]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Ceylon Context triple: [Mannar District (Tamil-speaking areas), colonialHistory, British Ceylon]
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A.
British Ceylon
chosen
British Ceylon was the British colonial possession in the Indian Ocean that encompassed the island of present-day Sri Lanka from the late 18th century until its independence in 1948.
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B.
Sri Lankan British
Sri Lankan British are people in the United Kingdom of Sri Lankan origin or descent, forming a distinct diaspora community with cultural ties to both Sri Lanka and Britain.
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C.
Ceylon (Dutch Ceylon)
Ceylon (Dutch Ceylon) was a former Dutch colonial territory on the island of Sri Lanka, controlled mainly for its strategic ports and lucrative cinnamon trade from the mid-17th to late 18th century.
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D.
Dominion of Ceylon
The Dominion of Ceylon was a British Commonwealth realm in South Asia that existed from 1948 to 1972, when it became the fully independent republic of Sri Lanka.
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E.
Ceylon Civil Service
The Ceylon Civil Service was the elite administrative corps of British Ceylon responsible for governing and managing the island’s colonial bureaucracy.
- 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_69ca831ee390819095fae73400bbfafc |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cbe57dbe488190af5f06faf862cd5d |
completed | March 31, 2026, 3:17 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ce3a6117988190b8c667d4263f3e86 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 9:44 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:13 p.m.