Triple

T2462887
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British South Africa Company E54573 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object British South Africa E170029 NE FINISHED

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 | Statement: [British South Africa Company, namedAfter, British South Africa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British South Africa
Context triple: [British South Africa Company, namedAfter, British South Africa]
  • A. British South Africa chosen
    British South Africa refers to the territories in southern Africa that were under British colonial rule, including regions that later became countries such as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi.
  • B. Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
    The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was a mid-20th-century semi-autonomous colonial union in southern Africa that combined the territories of modern-day Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi under British rule.
  • C. Colony of Natal
    The Colony of Natal was a British colonial territory in southeastern Africa, centered on the port of Durban, that existed from the mid-19th century until it became part of the Union of South Africa in 1910.
  • D. Dominion of South Africa
    The Dominion of South Africa was a self-governing British dominion (1910–1961) that participated in both World Wars and formed the historical predecessor to the modern Republic of South Africa.
  • E. Rhodesia
    Rhodesia was an unrecognized, white-minority-ruled state in southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979 in the territory of modern-day Zimbabwe.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69ab49dee84c819096b50a0049c347ac completed March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd11f093c8190877db3026d430bd5 completed March 7, 2026, 7:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aef0d561a081909310113658b98f12 completed March 9, 2026, 4:09 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.