Triple

T466645
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Royal Proclamation of 1763 E8461 entity
Predicate appliesToTerritory P647 FINISHED
Object British North America
British North America was the collective term for Britain’s colonial possessions in North America, including colonies that later formed Canada and, before independence, parts of what became the United States.
E41869 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 North America | Statement: [Royal Proclamation of 1763, appliesToTerritory, British North America]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British North America
Context triple: [Royal Proclamation of 1763, appliesToTerritory, British North America]
  • A. British America
    British America was the collective term for Britain’s colonies in North America and the Caribbean prior to the independence of the United States and other territories.
  • B. British Canada
    British Canada was the collective term for the British-controlled territories in North America that played a supporting role to Indigenous allies and British interests during late 18th-century conflicts such as the Northwest Indian War.
  • C. Dominion of Canada
    The Dominion of Canada was the semi-autonomous federal state established in 1867 that formed the foundation of modern Canada within the British Empire.
  • D. Province of Canada
    The Province of Canada was a British North American colony formed in 1841 by uniting Upper and Lower Canada, serving as a key political predecessor to modern Canada until Confederation in 1867.
  • E. The Commonwealth
    The Commonwealth is a traditional nickname for the U.S. state of Massachusetts, reflecting its historical self-identification as a government founded on the common consent and welfare of its people.
  • 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 North America
Triple: [Royal Proclamation of 1763, appliesToTerritory, British North America]
Generated description
British North America was the collective term for Britain’s colonial possessions in North America, including colonies that later formed Canada and, before independence, parts of what became the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British North America
Target entity description: British North America was the collective term for Britain’s colonial possessions in North America, including colonies that later formed Canada and, before independence, parts of what became the United States.
  • A. British America chosen
    British America was the collective term for Britain’s colonies in North America and the Caribbean prior to the independence of the United States and other territories.
  • B. British Canada
    British Canada was the collective term for the British-controlled territories in North America that played a supporting role to Indigenous allies and British interests during late 18th-century conflicts such as the Northwest Indian War.
  • C. Dominion of Canada
    The Dominion of Canada was the semi-autonomous federal state established in 1867 that formed the foundation of modern Canada within the British Empire.
  • D. Province of Canada
    The Province of Canada was a British North American colony formed in 1841 by uniting Upper and Lower Canada, serving as a key political predecessor to modern Canada until Confederation in 1867.
  • E. The Commonwealth
    The Commonwealth is a traditional nickname for the U.S. state of Massachusetts, reflecting its historical self-identification as a government founded on the common consent and welfare of its people.
  • 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_69a2e7f3aeb48190a19453e3a043f486 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2efd831088190b6ac6a56b34a8816 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a462f7c7b0819097c799a7c53b0e5f completed March 1, 2026, 4:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a46537688c81909321f461e9d7ebc2 completed March 1, 2026, 4:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a46589fe548190989b2beb40807005 completed March 1, 2026, 4:12 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.