Triple

T12256930
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fulani Empire E292125 entity
Predicate militaryConflict P12 FINISHED
Object British conquest of Northern Nigeria
The British conquest of Northern Nigeria was a series of early 20th-century colonial military campaigns that overthrew the Fulani-ruled Sokoto Caliphate and established British control over the region that became Northern Nigeria.
E972855 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: British conquest of Northern Nigeria | Statement: [Fulani Empire, militaryConflict, British conquest of Northern Nigeria]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British conquest of Northern Nigeria
Context triple: [Fulani Empire, militaryConflict, British conquest of Northern Nigeria]
  • A. Benin Expedition of 1897
    The Benin Expedition of 1897 was a British punitive military campaign that led to the violent conquest and looting of the Kingdom of Benin in present-day Nigeria, resulting in the exile of its oba and the dispersal of the famed Benin Bronzes.
  • B. Fashoda Incident
    The Fashoda Incident was an 1898 imperial confrontation between Britain and France in Sudan that nearly triggered war and symbolized the climax of their colonial rivalry in Africa.
  • C. Conquest of Sudan
    The Conquest of Sudan was the 19th-century Egyptian military campaign that brought much of Sudan under Ottoman-Egyptian control, laying the groundwork for later Anglo-Egyptian rule.
  • D. British-Ijebu conflict of 1892
    The British-Ijebu conflict of 1892 was a colonial-era military campaign in which British forces defeated the Ijebu Kingdom in present-day southwestern Nigeria, paving the way for expanded British control and the consolidation of colonial rule in the region.
  • E. Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of Sudan
    The Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of Sudan was a late 19th-century military campaign in which British and Egyptian forces defeated the Mahdist state and reestablished joint colonial control over Sudan.
  • 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: British conquest of Northern Nigeria
Triple: [Fulani Empire, militaryConflict, British conquest of Northern Nigeria]
Generated description
The British conquest of Northern Nigeria was a series of early 20th-century colonial military campaigns that overthrew the Fulani-ruled Sokoto Caliphate and established British control over the region that became Northern Nigeria.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British conquest of Northern Nigeria
Target entity description: The British conquest of Northern Nigeria was a series of early 20th-century colonial military campaigns that overthrew the Fulani-ruled Sokoto Caliphate and established British control over the region that became Northern Nigeria.
  • A. Benin Expedition of 1897
    The Benin Expedition of 1897 was a British punitive military campaign that led to the violent conquest and looting of the Kingdom of Benin in present-day Nigeria, resulting in the exile of its oba and the dispersal of the famed Benin Bronzes.
  • B. Fashoda Incident
    The Fashoda Incident was an 1898 imperial confrontation between Britain and France in Sudan that nearly triggered war and symbolized the climax of their colonial rivalry in Africa.
  • C. Conquest of Sudan
    The Conquest of Sudan was the 19th-century Egyptian military campaign that brought much of Sudan under Ottoman-Egyptian control, laying the groundwork for later Anglo-Egyptian rule.
  • D. British-Ijebu conflict of 1892
    The British-Ijebu conflict of 1892 was a colonial-era military campaign in which British forces defeated the Ijebu Kingdom in present-day southwestern Nigeria, paving the way for expanded British control and the consolidation of colonial rule in the region.
  • E. Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of Sudan
    The Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of Sudan was a late 19th-century military campaign in which British and Egyptian forces defeated the Mahdist state and reestablished joint colonial control over Sudan.
  • 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_69d6ab67950c8190be08450a06228c4b completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d91ccadc3c81908fe68adc3fdcc851 completed April 10, 2026, 3:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f60abfc8588190ab9300c6e5e59092 completed May 2, 2026, 2:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f61a13fd1481908a06ca65b276e0e1 completed May 2, 2026, 3:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f61ad2bd0c8190ada37bc1f8ae160f completed May 2, 2026, 3:40 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:52 p.m.