Triple
T13565355
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Lagos Colony |
E324019
|
entity |
| Predicate | successor |
P78
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Southern Nigeria Protectorate |
E82540
|
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: Southern Nigeria Protectorate | Statement: [Lagos Colony, successor, Southern Nigeria Protectorate]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Southern Nigeria Protectorate Context triple: [Lagos Colony, successor, Southern Nigeria Protectorate]
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A.
Lagos Colony
Lagos Colony was a British colonial territory centered on the port city of Lagos, which later became a key component of modern Nigeria.
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B.
Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria
The Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria was a British colonial entity in West Africa that unified several previously separate territories into what later became the modern nation-state of Nigeria.
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C.
Southern Nigeria
chosen
Southern Nigeria is the southern geopolitical and cultural region of Nigeria, encompassing diverse ethnic groups, major coastal cities, and significant economic hubs including much of the country’s oil-producing areas.
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D.
Dominion of Nigeria
The Dominion of Nigeria was a British Commonwealth realm that existed from Nigeria’s independence in 1960 until it became a republic in 1963, with the British monarch as its ceremonial head of state.
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E.
Lagos Kingdom
The Lagos Kingdom was a pre-colonial Yoruba coastal state centered on the island city of Lagos in present-day Nigeria, known for its powerful monarchy, extensive trade networks, and later entanglement in Atlantic commerce and British colonial expansion.
- 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_69d8076830b48190910a902bae5888e2 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69dbb00cecd48190a9a2caff3d424817 |
completed | April 12, 2026, 2:45 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f75daf1bfc8190bf22eb9ef242f54f |
completed | May 3, 2026, 2:37 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:47 p.m.