Triple

T19671108
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British East Africa E472335 entity
Predicate predecessor P97 FINISHED
Object Imperial British East Africa Company
The Imperial British East Africa Company was a chartered British company in the late 19th century that administered and commercially exploited territories in East Africa before formal colonial rule was established.
E1393698 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: Imperial British East Africa Company | Statement: [British East Africa, predecessor, Imperial British East Africa Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Imperial British East Africa Company
Context triple: [British East Africa, predecessor, Imperial British East Africa Company]
  • A. United African Company
    The United African Company was a British trading enterprise that played a major role in commercial and colonial activities in West Africa during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. British South Africa Company
    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.
  • 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. Sierra Leone Company
    The Sierra Leone Company was a British philanthropic and commercial organization that established and governed the early Freetown colony in West Africa as a settlement for freed Black people in the late 18th century.
  • 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: Imperial British East Africa Company
Triple: [British East Africa, predecessor, Imperial British East Africa Company]
Generated description
The Imperial British East Africa Company was a chartered British company in the late 19th century that administered and commercially exploited territories in East Africa before formal colonial rule was established.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Imperial British East Africa Company
Target entity description: The Imperial British East Africa Company was a chartered British company in the late 19th century that administered and commercially exploited territories in East Africa before formal colonial rule was established.
  • A. United African Company
    The United African Company was a British trading enterprise that played a major role in commercial and colonial activities in West Africa during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. British South Africa Company
    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.
  • 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. Sierra Leone Company
    The Sierra Leone Company was a British philanthropic and commercial organization that established and governed the early Freetown colony in West Africa as a settlement for freed Black people in the late 18th century.
  • 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_69d8e514f2e08190ba70a4449519d218 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6416cb0bc8190ab27dd28eebb50e7 completed April 20, 2026, 3:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07bd535c788190b69cb40d97834e4c completed May 16, 2026, 12:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07be450e608190a008095b0502b2d3 completed May 16, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07bed9c62c819088d8e32f92b3b147 completed May 16, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:45 p.m.