Triple

T19671122
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British East Africa E472335 entity
Predicate borderedBy P224 FINISHED
Object German East Africa — NE NERFINISHED

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: German East Africa | Statement: [British East Africa, borderedBy, German East Africa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: German East Africa
Context triple: [British East Africa, borderedBy, German East Africa]
  • A. German East Africa chosen
    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.
  • B. British East Africa
    British East Africa was a former British colonial territory in East Africa, primarily encompassing present-day Kenya and neighboring regions, administered under various imperial arrangements until the mid-20th century.
  • C. German Kamerun
    German Kamerun was a German colonial territory in Central Africa from the 1880s until World War I, encompassing much of present-day Cameroon and parts of neighboring countries.
  • D. French Equatorial Africa
    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.
  • E. Portuguese East Africa
    Portuguese East Africa was a former Portuguese colony in southeastern Africa, largely corresponding to present-day Mozambique.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (2 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.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:45 p.m.