Triple

T4508971
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Congo Free State E102002 entity
Predicate followedBy P78 FINISHED
Object Belgian Congo
Belgian Congo was a vast Central African colony under Belgian rule from 1908 to 1960, known for its rich mineral resources and harsh colonial exploitation.
E102002 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: Belgian Congo | Statement: [Congo Free State, followedBy, Belgian Congo]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Belgian Congo
Context triple: [Congo Free State, followedBy, Belgian Congo]
  • A. Congo Free State
    The Congo Free State was a vast Central African territory privately controlled by Belgium’s King Leopold II in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, notorious for extreme exploitation and atrocities during European colonial expansion.
  • B. French Equatorial Africa
    French Equatorial Africa was a federation of French colonial territories in central Africa that served as an important political and military base for Free French forces during World War II.
  • C. Dutch Angola
    Dutch Angola was a short-lived 17th-century Dutch colonial foothold on the west coast of Central Africa, centered on Luanda and primarily focused on the Atlantic slave trade.
  • D. Rhodesia
    Rhodesia was an unrecognized, white-minority-ruled state in southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979 in the territory of modern-day Zimbabwe.
  • E. Republic of the Congo
    The Republic of the Congo is a Central African nation along the Atlantic coast, known for its vast tropical rainforests, rich biodiversity, and significant oil and mineral resources.
  • 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: Belgian Congo
Triple: [Congo Free State, followedBy, Belgian Congo]
Generated description
Belgian Congo was a vast Central African colony under Belgian rule from 1908 to 1960, known for its rich mineral resources and harsh colonial exploitation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Belgian Congo
Target entity description: Belgian Congo was a vast Central African colony under Belgian rule from 1908 to 1960, known for its rich mineral resources and harsh colonial exploitation.
  • A. Congo Free State chosen
    The Congo Free State was a vast Central African territory privately controlled by Belgium’s King Leopold II in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, notorious for extreme exploitation and atrocities during European colonial expansion.
  • B. French Equatorial Africa
    French Equatorial Africa was a federation of French colonial territories in central Africa that served as an important political and military base for Free French forces during World War II.
  • C. Dutch Angola
    Dutch Angola was a short-lived 17th-century Dutch colonial foothold on the west coast of Central Africa, centered on Luanda and primarily focused on the Atlantic slave trade.
  • D. Rhodesia
    Rhodesia was an unrecognized, white-minority-ruled state in southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979 in the territory of modern-day Zimbabwe.
  • E. Republic of the Congo
    The Republic of the Congo is a Central African nation along the Atlantic coast, known for its vast tropical rainforests, rich biodiversity, and significant oil and mineral resources.
  • 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_69bd43d6251c81909deecce3e6e9d69c completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd571138b88190b68bbfc4300aaf9d completed March 20, 2026, 2:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bd7f7c1bd08190bc7b7028a512a466 completed March 20, 2026, 5:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bd84bae7148190ae201ea5257dd43e completed March 20, 2026, 5:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bd857181e4819086b7d0b493fbb9a3 completed March 20, 2026, 5:35 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:01 p.m.