Triple

T3053807
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria E60432 entity
Predicate predecessor P97 FINISHED
Object Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria E60432 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: Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria | Statement: [Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria, predecessor, Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria
Context triple: [Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria, predecessor, Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria]
  • A. Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria chosen
    The Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria was a British colonial entity in West Africa that unified several previously separate territories into what later became the modern nation-state of Nigeria.
  • 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. First Republic of Nigeria
    The First Republic of Nigeria was the country’s initial post-independence democratic government period (1963–1966), characterized by a parliamentary system and regional politics before being ended by a military coup.
  • D. Southern Nigeria
    Southern Nigeria is the southern geopolitical and cultural region of Nigeria, encompassing diverse ethnic groups, major coastal cities, and significant economic hubs including much of the country’s oil-producing areas.
  • E. Northern Territories of the Gold Coast
    The Northern Territories of the Gold Coast were a British colonial protectorate in West Africa that later became part of modern-day Ghana.
  • 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_69ad8578137c81908259dcb27c7d6d7c completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9bf51b5081908ce355a76cfa9e3c completed March 8, 2026, 3:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1ef00630c8190a3b5b2854350ecb9 completed March 11, 2026, 10:38 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:01 p.m.