Triple

T433664
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bulawayo E9766 entity
Predicate annexedBy P960 FINISHED
Object British South Africa Company
The British South Africa Company was a chartered company founded by Cecil Rhodes that administered and exploited large areas of southern and central Africa, notably in territories that became Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
E54573 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 South Africa Company | Statement: [Bulawayo, annexedBy, British South Africa Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British South Africa Company
Context triple: [Bulawayo, annexedBy, British South Africa Company]
  • A. Voortrekker Monument Company
    Voortrekker Monument Company is the organization responsible for managing and preserving the historic Voortrekker Monument and its associated heritage site in Pretoria, South Africa.
  • B. Royal African Company
    The Royal African Company was a 17th- and 18th-century English trading company that held a monopoly over British trade on the West African coast, playing a central role in the transatlantic slave trade.
  • C. British East India Company
    The British East India Company was a powerful English trading corporation that dominated commerce and colonial expansion in India and Asia from the 17th to the 19th century.
  • D. British India Steam Navigation Company
    The British India Steam Navigation Company was a major British shipping line that operated extensive passenger and cargo services across the Indian Ocean, connecting Britain with India, East Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia during the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • E. Canada Lands Company
    Canada Lands Company is a federal Crown corporation in Canada responsible for managing, redeveloping, and optimizing the value of strategic real estate and attractions owned by the Government of Canada.
  • 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 South Africa Company
Triple: [Bulawayo, annexedBy, British South Africa Company]
Generated description
The British South Africa Company was a chartered company founded by Cecil Rhodes that administered and exploited large areas of southern and central Africa, notably in territories that became Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British South Africa Company
Target entity description: The British South Africa Company was a chartered company founded by Cecil Rhodes that administered and exploited large areas of southern and central Africa, notably in territories that became Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. Voortrekker Monument Company
    Voortrekker Monument Company is the organization responsible for managing and preserving the historic Voortrekker Monument and its associated heritage site in Pretoria, South Africa.
  • B. Royal African Company
    The Royal African Company was a 17th- and 18th-century English trading company that held a monopoly over British trade on the West African coast, playing a central role in the transatlantic slave trade.
  • C. British East India Company
    The British East India Company was a powerful English trading corporation that dominated commerce and colonial expansion in India and Asia from the 17th to the 19th century.
  • D. British India Steam Navigation Company
    The British India Steam Navigation Company was a major British shipping line that operated extensive passenger and cargo services across the Indian Ocean, connecting Britain with India, East Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia during the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • E. Canada Lands Company
    Canada Lands Company is a federal Crown corporation in Canada responsible for managing, redeveloping, and optimizing the value of strategic real estate and attractions owned by the Government of Canada.
  • 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_69a2e801e1d48190b505d1dd336b52ac completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ef084840819080653004b674cba8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a431e395208190ab4d4d1c10c117f7 completed March 1, 2026, 12:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a43257175081909c02f7622fccb6b7 completed March 1, 2026, 12:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a432bcb5988190ace76655d26c3428 completed March 1, 2026, 12:36 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:11 p.m.