Triple

T443697
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Elmina Castle E10169 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object Dutch Gold Coast
The Dutch Gold Coast was a former colonial territory of the Netherlands on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, centered on a network of coastal forts and trading posts involved in the Atlantic slave trade and commerce in gold and other goods.
E56778 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: Dutch Gold Coast | Statement: [Elmina Castle, partOf, Dutch Gold Coast]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dutch Gold Coast
Context triple: [Elmina Castle, partOf, Dutch Gold Coast]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Cape Colony
    Cape Colony was a former European settlement and strategic refreshment station at the southern tip of Africa that developed into a key hub of trade, migration, and colonial expansion.
  • C. Guinea
    Guinea is a West African country on the Atlantic coast known for its rich mineral resources, diverse ethnic groups, and role as a major producer of bauxite.
  • D. British Guiana
    British Guiana was a former British colony on the northern coast of South America, known today as the independent nation of Guyana.
  • E. Elmina Castle
    Elmina Castle is a historic coastal fortress in present-day Ghana that became one of the most significant hubs of the transatlantic slave trade.
  • 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: Dutch Gold Coast
Triple: [Elmina Castle, partOf, Dutch Gold Coast]
Generated description
The Dutch Gold Coast was a former colonial territory of the Netherlands on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, centered on a network of coastal forts and trading posts involved in the Atlantic slave trade and commerce in gold and other goods.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dutch Gold Coast
Target entity description: The Dutch Gold Coast was a former colonial territory of the Netherlands on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, centered on a network of coastal forts and trading posts involved in the Atlantic slave trade and commerce in gold and other goods.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Cape Colony
    Cape Colony was a former European settlement and strategic refreshment station at the southern tip of Africa that developed into a key hub of trade, migration, and colonial expansion.
  • C. Guinea
    Guinea is a West African country on the Atlantic coast known for its rich mineral resources, diverse ethnic groups, and role as a major producer of bauxite.
  • D. British Guiana
    British Guiana was a former British colony on the northern coast of South America, known today as the independent nation of Guyana.
  • E. Elmina Castle
    Elmina Castle is a historic coastal fortress in present-day Ghana that became one of the most significant hubs of the transatlantic slave trade.
  • 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_69a2e8465ef481909655c681b01e2986 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ef43e8f88190a5d368add11a38c0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a447fdbcb881908299f7f72a3b7947 completed March 1, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a44a6379188190972dba701e754a48 completed March 1, 2026, 2:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a44ab77d54819088fcc3cf12b8a994 completed March 1, 2026, 2:18 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:11 p.m.