Triple

T4849755
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject West African Frontier Force E108383 entity
Predicate raisedBy P17573 FINISHED
Object Frederick Lugard
Frederick Lugard was a British colonial administrator and soldier best known for his role in establishing British rule in Nigeria and formulating the doctrine of indirect rule in Africa.
E473559 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: Frederick Lugard | Statement: [West African Frontier Force, raisedBy, Frederick Lugard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederick Lugard
Context triple: [West African Frontier Force, raisedBy, Frederick Lugard]
  • A. Sir Theophilus Shepstone
    Sir Theophilus Shepstone was a 19th-century British colonial administrator in South Africa, influential in native affairs and territorial annexations under the British Empire.
  • B. Cecil Rhodes
    Cecil Rhodes was a British imperialist, businessman, and politician in southern Africa whose wealth and will established the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford.
  • C. Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer
    Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, was a British colonial administrator who effectively ruled Egypt as its de facto governor during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. Henry Bartle Frere
    Henry Bartle Frere was a 19th-century British colonial administrator and diplomat best known for his controversial role as High Commissioner for Southern Africa, including actions that helped precipitate the Anglo-Zulu War.
  • E. Hardwicke Rawnsley
    Hardwicke Rawnsley was a British clergyman, conservationist, and social reformer best known as a co-founder of the National Trust and an early protector of the Lake District’s natural and cultural heritage.
  • 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: Frederick Lugard
Triple: [West African Frontier Force, raisedBy, Frederick Lugard]
Generated description
Frederick Lugard was a British colonial administrator and soldier best known for his role in establishing British rule in Nigeria and formulating the doctrine of indirect rule in Africa.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederick Lugard
Target entity description: Frederick Lugard was a British colonial administrator and soldier best known for his role in establishing British rule in Nigeria and formulating the doctrine of indirect rule in Africa.
  • A. Sir Theophilus Shepstone
    Sir Theophilus Shepstone was a 19th-century British colonial administrator in South Africa, influential in native affairs and territorial annexations under the British Empire.
  • B. Cecil Rhodes
    Cecil Rhodes was a British imperialist, businessman, and politician in southern Africa whose wealth and will established the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford.
  • C. Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer
    Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, was a British colonial administrator who effectively ruled Egypt as its de facto governor during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. Henry Bartle Frere
    Henry Bartle Frere was a 19th-century British colonial administrator and diplomat best known for his controversial role as High Commissioner for Southern Africa, including actions that helped precipitate the Anglo-Zulu War.
  • E. Hardwicke Rawnsley
    Hardwicke Rawnsley was a British clergyman, conservationist, and social reformer best known as a co-founder of the National Trust and an early protector of the Lake District’s natural and cultural heritage.
  • 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_69bd440a89548190a5f14ba6da6b97dc completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6d1e5cf08190bd6b6a524748f170 completed March 20, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be5cdafb3481908594ae883c6e9872 completed March 21, 2026, 8:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be5d4f2f908190b305996875f1f956 completed March 21, 2026, 8:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be5dcbb58c8190bbcf75c570720ad6 completed March 21, 2026, 8:58 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:25 p.m.