Triple
T17009481
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | British South Africa Company forces |
E412659
|
entity |
| Predicate | replacedBy |
P101
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Southern Rhodesia colonial forces
Southern Rhodesia colonial forces were the official military and security forces of the British colony of Southern Rhodesia, responsible for maintaining colonial rule and internal order prior to independence.
|
E1244590
|
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: Southern Rhodesia colonial forces | Statement: [British South Africa Company forces, replacedBy, Southern Rhodesia colonial forces]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Southern Rhodesia colonial forces Context triple: [British South Africa Company forces, replacedBy, Southern Rhodesia colonial forces]
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A.
Rhodesian Bush War
The Rhodesian Bush War was a guerrilla conflict from the mid-1960s to 1979 between the white-minority government of Rhodesia and African nationalist insurgent groups, culminating in the creation of modern-day Zimbabwe.
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B.
siege of Bulawayo
The siege of Bulawayo was a key 1896 confrontation in what is now Zimbabwe, where Ndebele forces surrounded the colonial town of Bulawayo during the Second Matabele War before being relieved by British-led columns.
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C.
South-West Africa Campaign
The South-West Africa Campaign was a World War I military operation in which South African forces invaded and defeated German colonial rule in present-day Namibia.
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D.
Second Matabele War
The Second Matabele War was an 1896–1897 uprising by the Ndebele (Matabele) people in what is now Zimbabwe against colonial rule, marking a major early resistance to British expansion in southern Africa.
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E.
Anglo-Zulu War
The Anglo-Zulu War was an 1879 conflict in southern Africa between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom, marked by famous battles such as Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift and resulting in the eventual defeat and dismantling of the Zulu state.
- 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: Southern Rhodesia colonial forces Triple: [British South Africa Company forces, replacedBy, Southern Rhodesia colonial forces]
Generated description
Southern Rhodesia colonial forces were the official military and security forces of the British colony of Southern Rhodesia, responsible for maintaining colonial rule and internal order prior to independence.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Southern Rhodesia colonial forces Target entity description: Southern Rhodesia colonial forces were the official military and security forces of the British colony of Southern Rhodesia, responsible for maintaining colonial rule and internal order prior to independence.
-
A.
Rhodesian Bush War
The Rhodesian Bush War was a guerrilla conflict from the mid-1960s to 1979 between the white-minority government of Rhodesia and African nationalist insurgent groups, culminating in the creation of modern-day Zimbabwe.
-
B.
siege of Bulawayo
The siege of Bulawayo was a key 1896 confrontation in what is now Zimbabwe, where Ndebele forces surrounded the colonial town of Bulawayo during the Second Matabele War before being relieved by British-led columns.
-
C.
South-West Africa Campaign
The South-West Africa Campaign was a World War I military operation in which South African forces invaded and defeated German colonial rule in present-day Namibia.
-
D.
Second Matabele War
The Second Matabele War was an 1896–1897 uprising by the Ndebele (Matabele) people in what is now Zimbabwe against colonial rule, marking a major early resistance to British expansion in southern Africa.
-
E.
Anglo-Zulu War
The Anglo-Zulu War was an 1879 conflict in southern Africa between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom, marked by famous battles such as Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift and resulting in the eventual defeat and dismantling of the Zulu state.
- 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_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_6a00dc241ec88190a3e868ab88b26f09 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 7:27 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a0114d7d03c8190943777f4eac956fd |
completed | May 10, 2026, 11:29 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a01159a08b081908fc82adc7cca532a |
completed | May 10, 2026, 11:32 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:33 a.m.