Triple

T9178085
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Herero and Namaqua genocide E220251 entity
Predicate perpetratedBy P698 FINISHED
Object German colonial administration in German South West Africa
The German colonial administration in German South West Africa was the imperial governing authority of Germany’s former colony (now Namibia), notorious for its brutal rule and responsibility for one of the first genocides of the 20th century against the Herero and Nama peoples.
E220251 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: German colonial administration in German South West Africa | Statement: [Herero and Namaqua genocide, perpetratedBy, German colonial administration in German South West Africa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: German colonial administration in German South West Africa
Context triple: [Herero and Namaqua genocide, perpetratedBy, German colonial administration in German South West Africa]
  • A. German East Africa
    German East Africa was a former German colonial territory in East Africa, encompassing present-day Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and parts of Mozambique, that existed from the late 19th century until the end of World War I.
  • B. South-West Africa Campaign
    The South-West Africa Campaign was a World War I military operation in which South African forces invaded and defeated German colonial rule in present-day Namibia.
  • C. Herero and Namaqua genocide
    The Herero and Namaqua genocide was a campaign of extermination and mass displacement carried out by German colonial forces in present-day Namibia between 1904 and 1908, widely regarded as one of the first genocides of the 20th century.
  • D. Scramble for Africa
    The Scramble for Africa was a late 19th-century period of rapid European colonization and partition of African territories, driven by imperial rivalry, economic interests, and strategic ambitions.
  • E. German Kamerun campaign
    The German Kamerun campaign was a World War I military operation in which Allied forces, including British, French, and Belgian troops, invaded and eventually conquered the German colony of Kamerun in West Africa.
  • 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: German colonial administration in German South West Africa
Triple: [Herero and Namaqua genocide, perpetratedBy, German colonial administration in German South West Africa]
Generated description
The German colonial administration in German South West Africa was the imperial governing authority of Germany’s former colony (now Namibia), notorious for its brutal rule and responsibility for one of the first genocides of the 20th century against the Herero and Nama peoples.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: German colonial administration in German South West Africa
Target entity description: The German colonial administration in German South West Africa was the imperial governing authority of Germany’s former colony (now Namibia), notorious for its brutal rule and responsibility for one of the first genocides of the 20th century against the Herero and Nama peoples.
  • A. German East Africa
    German East Africa was a former German colonial territory in East Africa, encompassing present-day Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and parts of Mozambique, that existed from the late 19th century until the end of World War I.
  • B. South-West Africa Campaign
    The South-West Africa Campaign was a World War I military operation in which South African forces invaded and defeated German colonial rule in present-day Namibia.
  • C. Herero and Namaqua genocide chosen
    The Herero and Namaqua genocide was a campaign of extermination and mass displacement carried out by German colonial forces in present-day Namibia between 1904 and 1908, widely regarded as one of the first genocides of the 20th century.
  • D. Scramble for Africa
    The Scramble for Africa was a late 19th-century period of rapid European colonization and partition of African territories, driven by imperial rivalry, economic interests, and strategic ambitions.
  • E. German Kamerun campaign
    The German Kamerun campaign was a World War I military operation in which Allied forces, including British, French, and Belgian troops, invaded and eventually conquered the German colony of Kamerun in West Africa.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ca83e589948190ac9907819db11ddf completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ccc24eeb988190af82dfba49aac2f8 completed April 1, 2026, 6:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d054ae9a708190b26c2f2c7ebb59c9 completed April 4, 2026, midnight
NEDg Description generation batch_69d05571243c8190bd7fcc6e675b3500 completed April 4, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d0564391cc81909c0cea2d49c38fb4 completed April 4, 2026, 12:07 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:23 p.m.