Triple
T1399387
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Middle Passage |
E30745
|
entity |
| Predicate | terminatesAt |
P388
|
FINISHED |
| Object | British Caribbean colonies |
E839
|
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: British Caribbean colonies | Statement: [Middle Passage, terminatesAt, British Caribbean colonies]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Caribbean colonies Context triple: [Middle Passage, terminatesAt, British Caribbean colonies]
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A.
British West Indies
chosen
The British West Indies were a group of Caribbean colonies under British rule, central to the Atlantic slave trade and plantation-based sugar economy from the 17th to 19th centuries.
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B.
Caribbean colonies of the Dutch West India Company
The Caribbean colonies of the Dutch West India Company were a network of Dutch-controlled island and coastal territories in the Caribbean and northern South America that served as key hubs for trade, plantation agriculture, and the transatlantic slave trade during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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C.
British America
British America was the collective term for Britain’s colonies in North America and the Caribbean prior to the independence of the United States and other territories.
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D.
Caribbean Community
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is a regional organization of Caribbean nations and territories that promotes economic integration, foreign policy coordination, and cooperation in areas such as trade, security, and sustainable development.
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E.
Spanish West Indies
The Spanish West Indies were Spain’s Caribbean and surrounding mainland colonies that served as a key hub of its early American empire, centered on lucrative sugar, silver, and trade routes.
- 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_69a498fd4e408190bd73eca30ea9754c |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4c39b1ea0819090e49454885d4b7d |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:54 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69acde353b148190b9122f1d6d80fbd4 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:25 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.