Triple

T1029324
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dutch–Portuguese War E22213 entity
Predicate mainTheater P687 FINISHED
Object Portuguese Angola
Portuguese Angola was a major 16th–19th century Portuguese colony in southwestern Africa that served as a key hub for the Atlantic slave trade and imperial rivalry.
E12616 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: Portuguese Angola | Statement: [Dutch–Portuguese War, mainTheater, Portuguese Angola]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Portuguese Angola
Context triple: [Dutch–Portuguese War, mainTheater, Portuguese Angola]
  • A. Angola
    Angola is a resource-rich country on Africa’s southwest coast, known for its oil and diamond industries and its history of a long civil war following independence.
  • B. Dutch Angola
    Dutch Angola was a short-lived 17th-century Dutch colonial foothold on the west coast of Central Africa, centered on Luanda and primarily focused on the Atlantic slave trade.
  • C. Angolan kwanza
    The Angolan kwanza is the official national currency of Angola, used for all everyday transactions and economic activities in the country.
  • D. Cabinda
    Cabinda is a small, oil-rich province on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa that is geographically separated from the rest of Angola by a strip of territory belonging to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • E. Portuguese Gold Coast
    The Portuguese Gold Coast was a former Portuguese colonial possession on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, centered on fortified trading posts that played a key role in early European involvement in the Atlantic slave and gold trades.
  • 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: Portuguese Angola
Triple: [Dutch–Portuguese War, mainTheater, Portuguese Angola]
Generated description
Portuguese Angola was a major 16th–19th century Portuguese colony in southwestern Africa that served as a key hub for the Atlantic slave trade and imperial rivalry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Portuguese Angola
Target entity description: Portuguese Angola was a major 16th–19th century Portuguese colony in southwestern Africa that served as a key hub for the Atlantic slave trade and imperial rivalry.
  • A. Angola chosen
    Angola is a resource-rich country on Africa’s southwest coast, known for its oil and diamond industries and its history of a long civil war following independence.
  • B. Dutch Angola
    Dutch Angola was a short-lived 17th-century Dutch colonial foothold on the west coast of Central Africa, centered on Luanda and primarily focused on the Atlantic slave trade.
  • C. Angolan kwanza
    The Angolan kwanza is the official national currency of Angola, used for all everyday transactions and economic activities in the country.
  • D. Cabinda
    Cabinda is a small, oil-rich province on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa that is geographically separated from the rest of Angola by a strip of territory belonging to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • E. Portuguese Gold Coast
    The Portuguese Gold Coast was a former Portuguese colonial possession on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, centered on fortified trading posts that played a key role in early European involvement in the Atlantic slave and gold trades.
  • 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_69a493d848848190aed4011b34b2e8d3 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b7f962608190b3ebd9140472b979 completed March 1, 2026, 10:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac83000d408190a79f6cdaee32b0f7 completed March 7, 2026, 7:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac838fc3d08190aa43d7f2767fe7d2 completed March 7, 2026, 7:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac8425ab408190a25c0f5db40ae77f completed March 7, 2026, 8:01 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.