Triple

T17009461
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British South Africa Company forces E412659 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object British South Africa Company E54573 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 South Africa Company | Statement: [British South Africa Company forces, partOf, British South Africa Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British South Africa Company
Context triple: [British South Africa Company forces, partOf, British South Africa Company]
  • A. British South Africa Company chosen
    The British South Africa Company was a chartered company founded by Cecil Rhodes that administered and exploited large areas of southern and central Africa, notably in territories that became Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Standard Bank of British South Africa
    Standard Bank of British South Africa was a major 19th–20th century British colonial bank that operated extensively across southern Africa and later became part of the group now known as Standard Chartered.
  • C. Brandenburg African Company
    The Brandenburg African Company was a 17th–18th century Prussian chartered trading company that operated on the West African coast, engaging primarily in the gold and slave trades.
  • D. Royal Niger Company
    The Royal Niger Company was a British chartered company that controlled trade and administered large parts of the Niger River region in the late 19th century, laying groundwork for the eventual formation of colonial Nigeria.
  • E. British South Africa
    British South Africa refers to the territories in southern Africa that were under British colonial rule, including regions that later became countries such as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi.
  • 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_69d886cc4170819093deddc7b8b4b6a7 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3d47a8444819081f1262eb7dbda40 completed April 18, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a011b46e89c81908271eb22b535c558 completed May 10, 2026, 11:56 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:33 a.m.