Triple
T20528779
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | British Empire in the Middle East |
E504012
|
entity |
| Predicate | includesTerritory |
P40
|
FINISHED |
| Object | British Aden Protectorate |
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|
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: British Aden Protectorate | Statement: [British Empire in the Middle East, includesTerritory, British Aden Protectorate]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Aden Protectorate Context triple: [British Empire in the Middle East, includesTerritory, British Aden Protectorate]
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A.
British Somaliland Protectorate
The British Somaliland Protectorate was a former British colonial territory in the Horn of Africa that existed from the late 19th century until 1960, when it gained independence and soon united with Italian Somaliland to form the Somali Republic.
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B.
British Protectorate of Zanzibar
The British Protectorate of Zanzibar was a period of British colonial control over the islands of Zanzibar off the East African coast, lasting from the late 19th century until the mid-20th century and shaping the region’s political and economic development.
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C.
British Western Aden Protectorate sphere
The British Western Aden Protectorate sphere was a British-controlled region in southwestern Arabia that encompassed various protectorate states surrounding the port of Aden during the colonial period.
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D.
British Aden Protectorate treaty system
The British Aden Protectorate treaty system was a network of protection agreements through which the British Empire controlled and managed relations with numerous local sultanates and sheikhdoms in the Aden region of southern Arabia.
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E.
Aden Protectorate
chosen
The Aden Protectorate was a British-controlled group of tribal states in southern Arabia that surrounded the port of Aden and served as a strategic buffer and hinterland for the Colony of Aden.
- 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_69e0b4b3a6e08190ae663701f50fab8e |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6a06926248190942fc9608e6b85fd |
completed | April 20, 2026, 9:53 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:37 a.m.