Triple

T1373778
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Orange Free State E30172 entity
Predicate followedBy P78 FINISHED
Object Orange River Colony
The Orange River Colony was a British colony in southern Africa established after the Second Boer War, later becoming the province of the Orange Free State in the Union of South Africa.
E158136 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: Orange River Colony | Statement: [Orange Free State, followedBy, Orange River Colony]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Orange River Colony
Context triple: [Orange Free State, followedBy, Orange River Colony]
  • A. Swan River Colony
    Swan River Colony was an early 19th-century British settlement on the west coast of Australia that evolved into the city of Perth and the surrounding region of Western Australia.
  • B. Red River Colony
    The Red River Colony was an early 19th-century agricultural settlement in what is now Manitoba, Canada, that became a focal point of Métis culture and resistance and played a key role in the region’s path to joining the Canadian Confederation.
  • C. Colony of New Brunswick
    The Colony of New Brunswick was a British North American province on Canada’s Atlantic coast that existed from 1784 until it joined Confederation as the province of New Brunswick in 1867.
  • D. New Netherland
    New Netherland was a 17th-century Dutch colonial province in North America that encompassed parts of present-day New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut.
  • E. Santa Cruz colony
    Santa Cruz colony was a short-lived late 16th-century Spanish settlement attempt in the Solomon Islands led by explorer Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira.
  • 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: Orange River Colony
Triple: [Orange Free State, followedBy, Orange River Colony]
Generated description
The Orange River Colony was a British colony in southern Africa established after the Second Boer War, later becoming the province of the Orange Free State in the Union of South Africa.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Orange River Colony
Target entity description: The Orange River Colony was a British colony in southern Africa established after the Second Boer War, later becoming the province of the Orange Free State in the Union of South Africa.
  • A. Swan River Colony
    Swan River Colony was an early 19th-century British settlement on the west coast of Australia that evolved into the city of Perth and the surrounding region of Western Australia.
  • B. Red River Colony
    The Red River Colony was an early 19th-century agricultural settlement in what is now Manitoba, Canada, that became a focal point of Métis culture and resistance and played a key role in the region’s path to joining the Canadian Confederation.
  • C. Colony of New Brunswick
    The Colony of New Brunswick was a British North American province on Canada’s Atlantic coast that existed from 1784 until it joined Confederation as the province of New Brunswick in 1867.
  • D. New Netherland
    New Netherland was a 17th-century Dutch colonial province in North America that encompassed parts of present-day New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut.
  • E. Santa Cruz colony
    Santa Cruz colony was a short-lived late 16th-century Spanish settlement attempt in the Solomon Islands led by explorer Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira.
  • 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_69a498f912008190a376a98b207b2071 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c2f660888190bc9240e0dc4f0aa3 completed March 1, 2026, 10:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acd48397c88190b5be985bf92d47b8 completed March 8, 2026, 1:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acd4efb73881908dda4973befc6aa5 completed March 8, 2026, 1:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acd56ef0b081909df2efee97a4197c completed March 8, 2026, 1:48 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:57 p.m.