Triple

T9103071
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Commissioners of Customs Act 1767 E218405 entity
Predicate appliesTo P1129 FINISHED
Object British American colonies E41869 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 American colonies | Statement: [Commissioners of Customs Act 1767, appliesTo, British American colonies]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: British American colonies
Context triple: [Commissioners of Customs Act 1767, appliesTo, British American colonies]
  • A. British colonies
    The British colonies were overseas territories under the sovereignty and administration of the United Kingdom that formed the core of the British Empire and spanned regions across Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania.
  • B. British America chosen
    British America was the collective term for Britain’s colonies in North America and the Caribbean prior to the independence of the United States and other territories.
  • C. British North American colonies (except some territories)
    The British North American colonies (except some territories) were the group of Britain’s mainland and nearby colonial possessions in North America that later formed the core of modern Canada and were subject to major imperial laws and reforms in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • D. Colonial America
    Colonial America refers to the period of European, primarily British, settlement and rule in what is now the United States, characterized by developing colonies, frontier expansion, and evolving political, social, and religious institutions prior to independence.
  • E. British colonists
    British colonists were settlers and administrators from Britain who established and governed colonies across North America and other parts of the world, profoundly shaping local societies, economies, and Indigenous relations.
  • 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_69ca83db7448819090d0a5de842ef2ac completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc9715d5188190bce68d095e10c2eb completed April 1, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d0183677cc8190b3140278f4c6de9c completed April 3, 2026, 7:42 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:15 p.m.