Triple
T301505
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Governor-General of French Indochina |
E6205
|
entity |
| Predicate | appliesToTerritory |
P647
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Tonkin |
E15745
|
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: Tonkin | Statement: [Governor-General of French Indochina, appliesToTerritory, Tonkin]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tonkin Context triple: [Governor-General of French Indochina, appliesToTerritory, Tonkin]
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A.
Tonkin
chosen
Tonkin was a historical region in northern Vietnam, centered around Hanoi, that became a French protectorate and key part of colonial French Indochina.
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B.
Cochinchina
Cochinchina was the southern region of Vietnam that became a French colony and later formed part of French Indochina.
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C.
French Indochina
French Indochina was a French colonial federation in Southeast Asia, comprising territories such as Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, that existed from the late 19th century until the mid-20th century.
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D.
Gulf of Tonkin
The Gulf of Tonkin is a shallow arm of the South China Sea off the coasts of northern Vietnam and southern China, historically known as a key maritime region and the site of the 1964 naval incidents that escalated U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
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E.
Protectorate of Annam
The Protectorate of Annam was a central Vietnamese monarchy under French colonial rule, forming one of the key constituent regions of French Indochina.
- 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_69a2e79230508190b912ecb555aae17e |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:03 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a2e9e6a8308190b9bd15310e324504 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:13 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a3fe8dde4c8190bd897e5251eb6941 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:53 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.