Triple
T21894785
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Frederick Selous |
E540648
|
entity |
| Predicate | workedFor |
P1910
|
FINISHED |
| Object | British South Africa Company |
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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 South Africa Company | Statement: [Frederick Selous, workedFor, British South Africa Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British South Africa Company Context triple: [Frederick Selous, workedFor, British South Africa Company]
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A.
British South Africa Company
chosen
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.
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B.
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.
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C.
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.
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D.
Standard Bank of British South Africa
Standard Bank of British South Africa was a major 19th–20th century British colonial bank that operated extensively across southern Africa and later became part of the group now known as Standard Chartered.
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E.
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.
- 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.