Triple

T11608804
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sixth Frontier War E275328 entity
Predicate belligerent P375 FINISHED
Object Cape Colony forces E309096 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: Cape Colony forces | Statement: [Sixth Frontier War, belligerent, Cape Colony forces]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cape Colony forces
Context triple: [Sixth Frontier War, belligerent, Cape Colony forces]
  • A. British South Africa Company forces
    The British South Africa Company forces were the private colonial troops of Cecil Rhodes’s chartered company, used to expand and police British interests in southern Africa in the late 19th century.
  • B. Boer forces
    Boer forces were the predominantly mounted, guerrilla-style republican commandos of the South African Boers that fought against the British Empire during the Anglo-Boer Wars.
  • C. Zulu Army
    The Zulu Army was the highly disciplined and formidable military force of the Zulu Kingdom in southern Africa, renowned for its tactical innovations and major victories during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.
  • D. British colonial forces chosen
    British colonial forces were the military units and troops deployed by the British Empire to conquer, control, and administer its overseas colonies across Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific.
  • E. Natal Native Contingent
    The Natal Native Contingent was a colonial auxiliary force of African troops raised by the British in Natal that played a significant but often under-equipped and under-recognized role in the Anglo-Zulu War.
  • 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_69d6aaf84b548190ac072e4fb89ae18f completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a04231d08190b8a07cd977d11ffa completed April 10, 2026, 7:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e8a82381708190aa0e674603d5778a completed April 22, 2026, 10:51 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:38 p.m.