Triple
T15716866
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | British Protectorate of Basutoland |
E380982
|
entity |
| Predicate | historicalEra |
P200
|
FINISHED |
| Object | New Imperialism |
E4625
|
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: New Imperialism | Statement: [British Protectorate of Basutoland, historicalEra, New Imperialism]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New Imperialism Context triple: [British Protectorate of Basutoland, historicalEra, New Imperialism]
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A.
Age of Imperialism
chosen
The Age of Imperialism was a period, mainly in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when industrialized Western powers expanded their control over vast territories in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific for economic, political, and strategic dominance.
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B.
Age of Nationalism
The Age of Nationalism was a 19th-century period marked by the rise of nation-states, unification movements, and nationalist ideologies that reshaped the political map of Europe and beyond.
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C.
Scramble for Africa
The Scramble for Africa was a late 19th-century period of rapid European colonization and partition of African territories, driven by imperial rivalry, economic interests, and strategic ambitions.
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D.
The Age of Empire: 1875–1914
The Age of Empire: 1875–1914 is a major historical study by Eric Hobsbawm that analyzes the political, economic, and social transformations of the late 19th and early 20th centuries leading up to World War I.
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E.
The Diplomacy of Imperialism, 1890–1902
The Diplomacy of Imperialism, 1890–1902 is a seminal historical study analyzing the international rivalries and expansionist policies of the great powers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- 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_69d86d9bf930819082b30cf6d169297c |
completed | April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e04f91beb08190bd91bf9306737c3b |
completed | April 16, 2026, 2:55 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ff7583609c8190a80421fce649900f |
completed | May 9, 2026, 5:57 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:45 a.m.