Triple

T9509903
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sir Theophilus Shepstone E229364 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object British colonial administration in Southern Africa E170029 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 colonial administration in Southern Africa | Statement: [Sir Theophilus Shepstone, partOf, British colonial administration in Southern Africa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: British colonial administration in Southern Africa
Context triple: [Sir Theophilus Shepstone, partOf, British colonial administration in Southern Africa]
  • A. British protectorate administration in Northern Rhodesia
    The British protectorate administration in Northern Rhodesia was the colonial governmental authority that directly governed the territory (now Zambia) on behalf of the British Crown after the end of company rule.
  • B. How Britain Rules Africa
    "How Britain Rules Africa" is a seminal anti-colonial study by George Padmore that exposes and critiques the political and economic mechanisms of British imperial rule across the African continent.
  • C. British colonial administration in Sudan
    The British colonial administration in Sudan was the imperial governing authority that, in partnership with Egypt, controlled and administered Sudan from the late 19th century until independence in 1956.
  • D. British Protectorate of Basutoland
    The British Protectorate of Basutoland was a southern African territory under British colonial rule from the late 19th century until 1966, when it gained independence as the Kingdom of Lesotho.
  • E. British South Africa chosen
    British South Africa refers to the territories in southern Africa that were under British colonial rule, including regions that later became countries such as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi.
  • 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_69ca847611c48190a28c028644198c75 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9857058881909e0a40e2024a7b4c completed April 1, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d13a31600c8190a4a7ecb5231caa36 completed April 4, 2026, 4:20 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:58 p.m.