Triple

T42480
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Seven Years' War E837 entity
Predicate mainBelligerent P375 FINISHED
Object Portuguese Empire
The Portuguese Empire was a vast global maritime and colonial power, spanning territories in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas from the 15th to the 20th century.
E11466 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: Portuguese Empire | Statement: [Seven Years' War, mainBelligerent, Portuguese Empire]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Portuguese Empire
Context triple: [Seven Years' War, mainBelligerent, Portuguese Empire]
  • A. Spanish Empire
    The Spanish Empire was a vast early modern global empire that dominated much of the Americas, parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia, becoming one of history’s most powerful colonial powers.
  • B. Dutch Brazil
    Dutch Brazil was a short-lived 17th-century Dutch colony in northeastern Brazil, centered on Recife, that served as a key hub for the Atlantic sugar and slave trades.
  • C. British Empire
    The British Empire was a vast global colonial empire dominated by Britain that, at its height, controlled territories on every inhabited continent and profoundly shaped modern political, economic, and cultural history.
  • D. Crown of Aragon
    The Crown of Aragon was a powerful medieval and early modern maritime confederation in the western Mediterranean, centered on northeastern Iberia, that played a major role in Mediterranean trade, politics, and early overseas expansion.
  • E. Crown of Castile
    The Crown of Castile was a powerful late medieval and early modern Iberian kingdom whose maritime expansion and sponsorship of voyages, including those of Christopher Columbus, made it a central driver of Spanish overseas exploration and empire-building.
  • 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: Portuguese Empire
Triple: [Seven Years' War, mainBelligerent, Portuguese Empire]
Generated description
The Portuguese Empire was a vast global maritime and colonial power, spanning territories in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas from the 15th to the 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Portuguese Empire
Target entity description: The Portuguese Empire was a vast global maritime and colonial power, spanning territories in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas from the 15th to the 20th century.
  • A. Spanish Empire
    The Spanish Empire was a vast early modern global empire that dominated much of the Americas, parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia, becoming one of history’s most powerful colonial powers.
  • B. Dutch Brazil
    Dutch Brazil was a short-lived 17th-century Dutch colony in northeastern Brazil, centered on Recife, that served as a key hub for the Atlantic sugar and slave trades.
  • C. British Empire
    The British Empire was a vast global colonial empire dominated by Britain that, at its height, controlled territories on every inhabited continent and profoundly shaped modern political, economic, and cultural history.
  • D. Crown of Aragon
    The Crown of Aragon was a powerful medieval and early modern maritime confederation in the western Mediterranean, centered on northeastern Iberia, that played a major role in Mediterranean trade, politics, and early overseas expansion.
  • E. Crown of Castile
    The Crown of Castile was a powerful late medieval and early modern Iberian kingdom whose maritime expansion and sponsorship of voyages, including those of Christopher Columbus, made it a central driver of Spanish overseas exploration and empire-building.
  • 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_69a247a8f6c08190bac804906d62ed5a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24ec1ef5481909daf99654dfa3f57 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a27bfdda548190ae43a219cb555ad0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a27dc7ee4c8190802b9c9a3c2c1270 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a27e2dcde48190a8ff74be207f9f07 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:33 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:46 a.m.