Triple

T2920541
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Congreve rockets E78709 entity
Predicate usedBy P260 FINISHED
Object British colonial forces
British colonial forces were the military units and troops deployed by the British Empire to conquer, control, and administer its overseas colonies across Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific.
E309096 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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 colonial forces | Statement: [Congreve rockets, usedBy, British colonial forces]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British colonial forces
Context triple: [Congreve rockets, usedBy, British colonial forces]
  • A. British East India Company forces
    The British East India Company forces were colonial military units deployed by the Company to expand and maintain its control over territories in the Indian subcontinent during the 17th to 19th centuries.
  • B. British Commonwealth forces
    British Commonwealth forces were the combined military units from the United Kingdom and its dominions and colonies that fought together under British command during major 20th-century conflicts, especially the World Wars.
  • C. Australian Imperial Force
    The Australian Imperial Force was the main expeditionary military force of Australia during World War I, comprising volunteer soldiers who served overseas in major campaigns such as Gallipoli and on the Western Front.
  • D. British colonial authorities
    British colonial authorities were the representatives and governing institutions of the British Crown that administered and controlled its American colonies prior to and during the American Revolution.
  • E. Natal colonial forces
    The Natal colonial forces were British-aligned military units raised in the Colony of Natal, composed largely of local settlers and auxiliaries who fought in regional conflicts such as the Anglo-Zulu War.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: British colonial forces
Triple: [Congreve rockets, usedBy, British colonial forces]
Generated description
British colonial forces were the military units and troops deployed by the British Empire to conquer, control, and administer its overseas colonies across Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British colonial forces
Target entity description: British colonial forces were the military units and troops deployed by the British Empire to conquer, control, and administer its overseas colonies across Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific.
  • A. British East India Company forces
    The British East India Company forces were colonial military units deployed by the Company to expand and maintain its control over territories in the Indian subcontinent during the 17th to 19th centuries.
  • B. British Commonwealth forces
    British Commonwealth forces were the combined military units from the United Kingdom and its dominions and colonies that fought together under British command during major 20th-century conflicts, especially the World Wars.
  • C. Australian Imperial Force
    The Australian Imperial Force was the main expeditionary military force of Australia during World War I, comprising volunteer soldiers who served overseas in major campaigns such as Gallipoli and on the Western Front.
  • D. British colonial authorities
    British colonial authorities were the representatives and governing institutions of the British Crown that administered and controlled its American colonies prior to and during the American Revolution.
  • E. Natal colonial forces
    The Natal colonial forces were British-aligned military units raised in the Colony of Natal, composed largely of local settlers and auxiliaries who fought in regional conflicts such as the Anglo-Zulu War.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69ad8b0c2ad081909ff87050ae542bb9 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad96a672f88190851e487dac18d43f completed March 8, 2026, 3:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b056344ca48190b4d14dd2c1ac643d completed March 10, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b05b30b1dc819085fdf1c7ad14f13e completed March 10, 2026, 5:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b05c43b08481908ae7cbd23f0b8a93 completed March 10, 2026, 6 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:54 p.m.