Triple
T17009483
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | British South Africa Company forces |
E412659
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableCommander |
P1197
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Frederick Selous |
E540648
|
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: Frederick Selous | Statement: [British South Africa Company forces, notableCommander, Frederick Selous]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederick Selous Context triple: [British South Africa Company forces, notableCommander, Frederick Selous]
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A.
Frederick Selous
chosen
Frederick Selous was a famed British explorer, big-game hunter, and conservationist in southern Africa during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Samuel Baker
Samuel Baker was an 18th-century British bookseller and auctioneer best known for establishing the auction house that became Sotheby’s.
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C.
Samuel White Baker
Samuel White Baker was a 19th-century British explorer, naturalist, and abolitionist best known for his expeditions in the Nile region and the discovery of Lake Albert.
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D.
William John Burchell
William John Burchell was a 19th-century English explorer, naturalist, and illustrator known for his extensive travels and scientific collections in Africa and South America.
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E.
Sir Louis Cavagnari
Sir Louis Cavagnari was a British-Italian military officer and diplomat best known for his role in Anglo-Afghan relations during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, where he served as British envoy in Kabul and was killed in the 1879 uprising.
- 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_6a00dc241ec88190a3e868ab88b26f09 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 7:27 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:33 a.m.