Triple
T16581709
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Captain W. A. Ross |
E402847
|
entity |
| Predicate | employer |
P7
|
FINISHED |
| Object | British colonial government in Nigeria |
E60432
|
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 colonial government in Nigeria | Statement: [Captain W. A. Ross, employer, British colonial government in Nigeria]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British colonial government in Nigeria Context triple: [Captain W. A. Ross, employer, British colonial government in Nigeria]
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A.
British colonial administration in West Africa
The British colonial administration in West Africa was the system of imperial governance through which Britain controlled and managed its West African colonies—politically, economically, and legally—from the nineteenth century until decolonization.
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B.
Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria
chosen
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.
British Protectorate of Northern Nigeria
The British Protectorate of Northern Nigeria was a colonial territory in West Africa established by Britain in the early 20th century that later became part of modern Nigeria.
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D.
Federal Military Government of Nigeria
The Federal Military Government of Nigeria was the military-led national authority that ruled Nigeria during the late 1960s and early 1970s, overseeing the country through the Nigerian Civil War and subsequent postwar reconstruction.
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E.
Nigerian civil service
The Nigerian civil service is the permanent professional bureaucracy responsible for implementing government policies and administering public services across Nigeria’s federal ministries and agencies.
- 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_69d88387363c8190a97a0c942130de97 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e35998371c8190936dcdaab5ca7e21 |
completed | April 18, 2026, 10:14 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a006ef0bc4c8190b06b03c06d344abf |
completed | May 10, 2026, 11:41 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:16 a.m.