Triple

T21894764
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Frederick Selous E540648 entity
Predicate placeOfDeath P21 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: [Frederick Selous, placeOfDeath, German East Africa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: German East Africa
Context triple: [Frederick Selous, placeOfDeath, 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. Province of East Africa
    The Province of East Africa was a former Anglican ecclesiastical province that once oversaw Anglican churches in parts of East Africa before they became separate national provinces such as the Anglican Church of Kenya.
  • D. Tanganyika Territory
    Tanganyika Territory was a former British-administered mandate and later trust territory in East Africa that comprised most of present-day mainland Tanzania.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69e0c47a95908190ae3e19b716accb3d completed April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f11fc6062c81908bf0aad7c6b99932 completed April 28, 2026, 8:59 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 7:07 p.m.