Triple

T17021639
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Belich E412959 entity
Predicate areaOfInfluence P9 FINISHED
Object New Zealand historiography
New Zealand historiography is the body of historical writing, interpretation, and debate about New Zealand’s past, including its colonial, Indigenous, social, and political histories.
E1247162 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: New Zealand historiography | Statement: [James Belich, areaOfInfluence, New Zealand historiography]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New Zealand historiography
Context triple: [James Belich, areaOfInfluence, New Zealand historiography]
  • A. British colonisation of New Zealand
    The British colonisation of New Zealand was the 19th-century process by which Britain established political control and large-scale European settlement in New Zealand, profoundly reshaping the land’s governance, demographics, and Māori society.
  • B. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
    The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography is an authoritative reference work that provides scholarly biographical entries on notable figures in New Zealand’s history.
  • C. Te Pirimia o Aotearoa
    Te Pirimia o Aotearoa is the Māori-language title for the Prime Minister of New Zealand, the head of the country's government.
  • D. Liberal–conservative movement in New Zealand
    The Liberal–conservative movement in New Zealand was an early 20th-century political current that blended traditional conservative values with elements of liberal reform, shaping the country’s transition from colonial politics to a more modern party system.
  • E. Māori–Crown relations
    Māori–Crown relations refers to the evolving political, legal, and social relationship between the Indigenous Māori people of Aotearoa New Zealand and the New Zealand government, grounded in the Treaty of Waitangi and ongoing processes of redress and partnership.
  • 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: New Zealand historiography
Triple: [James Belich, areaOfInfluence, New Zealand historiography]
Generated description
New Zealand historiography is the body of historical writing, interpretation, and debate about New Zealand’s past, including its colonial, Indigenous, social, and political histories.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New Zealand historiography
Target entity description: New Zealand historiography is the body of historical writing, interpretation, and debate about New Zealand’s past, including its colonial, Indigenous, social, and political histories.
  • A. British colonisation of New Zealand
    The British colonisation of New Zealand was the 19th-century process by which Britain established political control and large-scale European settlement in New Zealand, profoundly reshaping the land’s governance, demographics, and Māori society.
  • B. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
    The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography is an authoritative reference work that provides scholarly biographical entries on notable figures in New Zealand’s history.
  • C. Te Pirimia o Aotearoa
    Te Pirimia o Aotearoa is the Māori-language title for the Prime Minister of New Zealand, the head of the country's government.
  • D. Liberal–conservative movement in New Zealand
    The Liberal–conservative movement in New Zealand was an early 20th-century political current that blended traditional conservative values with elements of liberal reform, shaping the country’s transition from colonial politics to a more modern party system.
  • E. Māori–Crown relations
    Māori–Crown relations refers to the evolving political, legal, and social relationship between the Indigenous Māori people of Aotearoa New Zealand and the New Zealand government, grounded in the Treaty of Waitangi and ongoing processes of redress and partnership.
  • 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_69e3d5d0dc848190a267f8542dfb86a6 completed April 18, 2026, 7:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a011b4f9dfc819085639edb5cda1cca completed May 10, 2026, 11:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a011cc1afc48190b83e3203407c1d7f completed May 11, 2026, 12:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a011d67c82c8190b737406e8952eb2b completed May 11, 2026, 12:05 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:33 a.m.