Triple

T291436
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dominion of Ceylon E6001 entity
Predicate predecessorState P10077 FINISHED
Object British Ceylon E13053 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 Ceylon | Statement: [Dominion of Ceylon, predecessorState, British Ceylon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Ceylon
Context triple: [Dominion of Ceylon, predecessorState, British Ceylon]
  • A. British Ceylon chosen
    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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Dominion of Ceylon
    The Dominion of Ceylon was a British Commonwealth realm in South Asia that existed from 1948 to 1972, when it became the fully independent republic of Sri Lanka.
  • D. Portuguese Ceylon
    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.
  • E. British India
    British India was the vast territory on the Indian subcontinent administered by the British Crown and its agents from the 18th to mid-20th century, forming the core of the British Empire in Asia.
  • 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_69a2e79114b081909490b3bf5a5dbb51 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2e975d2c0819082bbf6a0f3d928af completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3bc215b5481909963d13a5f8eb707 completed March 1, 2026, 4:10 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.