Triple

T350600
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British Crown E7432 entity
Predicate relatedConcept P37 FINISHED
Object Crown colony
A Crown colony was a type of British colonial administration directly governed by the Crown through an appointed governor, with limited or no local self-government.
E44903 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: Crown colony | Statement: [British Crown, relatedConcept, Crown colony]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Crown colony
Context triple: [British Crown, relatedConcept, Crown colony]
  • A. British Dominions
    The British Dominions were semi-autonomous territories within the British Empire, such as Canada and Australia, that recognized the British monarch as their head of state while gradually developing self-governing institutions.
  • B. Dominion of Canada
    The Dominion of Canada was the semi-autonomous federal state established in 1867 that formed the foundation of modern Canada within the British Empire.
  • C. Dominion of India
    The Dominion of India was the semi-independent constitutional monarchy that succeeded British colonial rule in 1947 and existed until India became a republic in 1950.
  • D. Dominion of New England
    The Dominion of New England was a short-lived late-17th-century administrative union imposed by the English Crown to centralize control over several New England colonies, curtailing their traditional self-governance.
  • E. Dominions of the British Empire
    The Dominions of the British Empire were semi-autonomous, self-governing polities within the British Empire—such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—that recognized the British monarch as head of state while managing their own internal affairs.
  • 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: Crown colony
Triple: [British Crown, relatedConcept, Crown colony]
Generated description
A Crown colony was a type of British colonial administration directly governed by the Crown through an appointed governor, with limited or no local self-government.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Crown colony
Target entity description: A Crown colony was a type of British colonial administration directly governed by the Crown through an appointed governor, with limited or no local self-government.
  • A. British Dominions
    The British Dominions were semi-autonomous territories within the British Empire, such as Canada and Australia, that recognized the British monarch as their head of state while gradually developing self-governing institutions.
  • B. Dominion of Canada
    The Dominion of Canada was the semi-autonomous federal state established in 1867 that formed the foundation of modern Canada within the British Empire.
  • C. Dominion of India
    The Dominion of India was the semi-independent constitutional monarchy that succeeded British colonial rule in 1947 and existed until India became a republic in 1950.
  • D. Dominion of New England
    The Dominion of New England was a short-lived late-17th-century administrative union imposed by the English Crown to centralize control over several New England colonies, curtailing their traditional self-governance.
  • E. Dominions of the British Empire
    The Dominions of the British Empire were semi-autonomous, self-governing polities within the British Empire—such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—that recognized the British monarch as head of state while managing their own internal affairs.
  • 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_69a2e7e696948190bebc966535995e45 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2eb1f028c819098fa6480b4ca5cf0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3dd33a50c8190846d19c24eb74039 completed March 1, 2026, 6:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3ddca8d3c8190b5baafe999a26b58 completed March 1, 2026, 6:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3de7f9b28819099cfe7c55a8168f0 completed March 1, 2026, 6:36 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.