Triple

T9570424
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Governor-General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland E230898 entity
Predicate locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity P40 FINISHED
Object Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia
Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia was the colonial-era capital city of Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) and the administrative center of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
E806890 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: Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia | Statement: [Governor-General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia
Context triple: [Governor-General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia]
  • A. Shabani, Southern Rhodesia
    Shabani, Southern Rhodesia was a town in the former British colony of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), known historically as a mining center and as the birthplace of future Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa.
  • B. South Rhodes
    South Rhodes is a municipal unit on the island of Rhodes in Greece, known for its coastal villages, beaches, and relatively undeveloped natural landscapes.
  • C. Chivhu, Zimbabwe
    Chivhu, Zimbabwe is a small town in central Zimbabwe known as an agricultural center and one of the country’s oldest European-settled communities.
  • D. Rhodesia
    Rhodesia was an unrecognized, white-minority-ruled state in southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979 in the territory of modern-day Zimbabwe.
  • E. Chinhoyi
    Chinhoyi is a town in northern Zimbabwe known as an administrative center and for the nearby Chinhoyi Caves.
  • 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: Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia
Triple: [Governor-General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia]
Generated description
Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia was the colonial-era capital city of Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) and the administrative center of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia
Target entity description: Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia was the colonial-era capital city of Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) and the administrative center of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
  • A. Shabani, Southern Rhodesia
    Shabani, Southern Rhodesia was a town in the former British colony of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), known historically as a mining center and as the birthplace of future Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa.
  • B. South Rhodes
    South Rhodes is a municipal unit on the island of Rhodes in Greece, known for its coastal villages, beaches, and relatively undeveloped natural landscapes.
  • C. Chivhu, Zimbabwe
    Chivhu, Zimbabwe is a small town in central Zimbabwe known as an agricultural center and one of the country’s oldest European-settled communities.
  • D. Rhodesia
    Rhodesia was an unrecognized, white-minority-ruled state in southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979 in the territory of modern-day Zimbabwe.
  • E. Chinhoyi
    Chinhoyi is a town in northern Zimbabwe known as an administrative center and for the nearby Chinhoyi Caves.
  • 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_69ca847f22188190a56e4a97625bef22 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd998ab5948190be78db4eed7825a0 completed April 1, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d152ba8f8081908b11c3c098e7e5f0 completed April 4, 2026, 6:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1541b005c8190b79fdc6a241d4198 completed April 4, 2026, 6:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d154d3a2d0819095bca826b510ee92 completed April 4, 2026, 6:13 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:04 p.m.