Triple

T9070000
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Captaincy of Pernambuco E217340 entity
Predicate borderedBy P224 FINISHED
Object Captaincy of Paraíba
The Captaincy of Paraíba was a colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil located in the northeastern region along the Atlantic coast, centered around the area of present-day Paraíba state.
 E778707 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: Captaincy of Paraíba | Statement: [Captaincy of Pernambuco, borderedBy, Captaincy of Paraíba]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Captaincy of Paraíba
Context triple: [Captaincy of Pernambuco, borderedBy, Captaincy of Paraíba]
  • A. Captaincy of Pernambuco
    The Captaincy of Pernambuco was a major colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil, centered on the lucrative sugar-producing region around present-day Recife and Olinda.
  • B. Captaincy of Ceará
    The Captaincy of Ceará was a colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil that encompassed the territory of present-day Ceará in northeastern Brazil.
  • C. Captaincy of Piauí
    The Captaincy of Piauí was a colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil located in the northeastern interior, corresponding roughly to the modern Brazilian state of Piauí.
  • D. Captaincy of Itamaracá
    The Captaincy of Itamaracá was a hereditary Portuguese colonial administrative division in northeastern Brazil, centered on the island of Itamaracá and surrounding mainland areas during the early colonial period.
  • E. Captaincy of Bahia
    The Captaincy of Bahia was a major colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil centered on the important coastal city of Salvador, which served as an early capital and key political, economic, and military hub in the region.
  • 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: Captaincy of Paraíba
Triple: [Captaincy of Pernambuco, borderedBy, Captaincy of Paraíba]
Generated description
The Captaincy of Paraíba was a colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil located in the northeastern region along the Atlantic coast, centered around the area of present-day Paraíba state.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Captaincy of Paraíba
Target entity description: The Captaincy of Paraíba was a colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil located in the northeastern region along the Atlantic coast, centered around the area of present-day Paraíba state.
  • A. Captaincy of Pernambuco
    The Captaincy of Pernambuco was a major colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil, centered on the lucrative sugar-producing region around present-day Recife and Olinda.
  • B. Captaincy of Ceará
    The Captaincy of Ceará was a colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil that encompassed the territory of present-day Ceará in northeastern Brazil.
  • C. Captaincy of Piauí
    The Captaincy of Piauí was a colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil located in the northeastern interior, corresponding roughly to the modern Brazilian state of Piauí.
  • D. Captaincy of Itamaracá
    The Captaincy of Itamaracá was a hereditary Portuguese colonial administrative division in northeastern Brazil, centered on the island of Itamaracá and surrounding mainland areas during the early colonial period.
  • E. Captaincy of Bahia
    The Captaincy of Bahia was a major colonial administrative division of Portuguese Brazil centered on the important coastal city of Salvador, which served as an early capital and key political, economic, and military hub in the region.
  • 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_69ca83d5a7f48190b16c1e59bd43ede0 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc955d29548190a204efd3257b6d5d completed April 1, 2026, 3:47 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d02fed4b6081908be3ee570e27abc5 completed April 3, 2026, 9:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d031a55a88819090cea52b192e9f55 completed April 3, 2026, 9:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d03252748c8190bd362f205a6fc20a completed April 3, 2026, 9:34 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:11 p.m.