Triple

T3699387
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Maseru E78539 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object British colonial authorities
British colonial authorities were the representatives and administrative bodies of the British Empire responsible for governing and managing its overseas colonies.
E7678 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 authorities | Statement: [Maseru, foundedBy, British colonial authorities]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British colonial authorities
Context triple: [Maseru, foundedBy, British colonial authorities]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. British authorities
    British authorities were the colonial government and law enforcement bodies of the United Kingdom that exercised political and administrative control over territories such as India during the British Empire.
  • D. British colonial period
    The British colonial period was the era when the British Empire exercised political, economic, and administrative control over large parts of the world, including the Indian subcontinent, profoundly shaping their societies and institutions.
  • E. British colonial intelligence
    British colonial intelligence was the network of intelligence and security services operated by the British Empire to monitor, control, and suppress political dissent and anti-colonial movements in its overseas territories.
  • 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 authorities
Triple: [Maseru, foundedBy, British colonial authorities]
Generated description
British colonial authorities were the representatives and administrative bodies of the British Empire responsible for governing and managing its overseas colonies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British colonial authorities
Target entity description: British colonial authorities were the representatives and administrative bodies of the British Empire responsible for governing and managing its overseas colonies.
  • A. British colonial authorities chosen
    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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. British authorities
    British authorities were the colonial government and law enforcement bodies of the United Kingdom that exercised political and administrative control over territories such as India during the British Empire.
  • D. British colonial period
    The British colonial period was the era when the British Empire exercised political, economic, and administrative control over large parts of the world, including the Indian subcontinent, profoundly shaping their societies and institutions.
  • E. British colonial intelligence
    British colonial intelligence was the network of intelligence and security services operated by the British Empire to monitor, control, and suppress political dissent and anti-colonial movements in its overseas territories.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ad85e3b1888190abc983e06968696d completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc513d26c8190bfdf25f62af8c6ca completed March 8, 2026, 6:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4c3df86bc819088db92eecee69fd3 completed March 14, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4c7e579d4819090edfa8a858c40c4 completed March 14, 2026, 2:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4c86511e48190872b3d85019bc013 completed March 14, 2026, 2:31 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:26 p.m.