Triple
T1789978
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | French Union |
E39472
|
entity |
| Predicate | includesTerritory |
P40
|
FINISHED |
| Object | French Equatorial Africa |
E14018
|
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: French Equatorial Africa | Statement: [French Union, includesTerritory, French Equatorial Africa]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: French Equatorial Africa Context triple: [French Union, includesTerritory, French Equatorial Africa]
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A.
French Equatorial Africa
chosen
French Equatorial Africa was a federation of French colonial territories in central Africa that served as an important political and military base for Free French forces during World War II.
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B.
French West Africa
French West Africa was a federation of eight French colonial territories in West Africa that served as a major political and military base for France, especially during both World Wars.
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C.
German East Africa
German East Africa was a former German colonial territory in East Africa, encompassing present-day Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and parts of Mozambique, that existed from the late 19th century until the end of World War I.
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D.
Congo Free State
The Congo Free State was a vast Central African territory privately controlled by Belgium’s King Leopold II in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, notorious for extreme exploitation and atrocities during European colonial expansion.
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E.
Central African Republic
The Central African Republic is a landlocked, resource-rich but politically unstable country in Central Africa that has experienced recurrent conflict and humanitarian crises.
- 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_69a88631854081909723959921e45c2b |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aa6512804c8190a5743c10bd37f83f |
completed | March 6, 2026, 5:24 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69adb5d063d48190aef6796ee3957994 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:45 p.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.