Triple
T2518923
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Sinhalese people |
E55475
|
entity |
| Predicate | colonialExperience |
P3812
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Portuguese Ceylon |
E12377
|
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: Portuguese Ceylon | Statement: [Sinhalese people, colonialExperience, Portuguese Ceylon]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Portuguese Ceylon Context triple: [Sinhalese people, colonialExperience, Portuguese Ceylon]
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A.
Portuguese Ceylon
chosen
Portuguese Ceylon was the period of Portuguese colonial rule over parts of the island of Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka) from the early 16th to mid-17th century, marked by control of coastal regions and the spice trade.
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B.
Portuguese India
Portuguese India was a collection of colonial enclaves on the Indian subcontinent that served for centuries as the main base of Portugal’s maritime trade and imperial presence in Asia.
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C.
Ceylon (Dutch Ceylon)
Ceylon (Dutch Ceylon) was a former Dutch colonial territory on the island of Sri Lanka, controlled mainly for its strategic ports and lucrative cinnamon trade from the mid-17th to late 18th century.
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D.
British Ceylon
British Ceylon was the British colonial possession in the Indian Ocean that encompassed the island of present-day Sri Lanka from the late 18th century until its independence in 1948.
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E.
Portuguese America
Portuguese America was the collective term for Portugal’s colonial possessions in the Americas, primarily encompassing the territory that later became Brazil.
- 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_69ab49e4749c8190813311efd1630f1b |
completed | March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abd232ae188190b7b70806b466ee99 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 7:22 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69af2ba2adc081908a0c7ff24db89de6 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 8:20 p.m. |
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:46 p.m.