Triple

T4849781
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject West African Frontier Force E108383 entity
Predicate region P40 FINISHED
Object British West Africa E91497 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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 West Africa | Statement: [West African Frontier Force, region, British West Africa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British West Africa
Context triple: [West African Frontier Force, region, British West Africa]
  • A. British West Africa chosen
    British West Africa was a collective term for Britain’s colonial territories in West Africa, including colonies such as Nigeria, the Gold Coast (Ghana), Sierra Leone, and the Gambia.
  • B. British Gold Coast
    The British Gold Coast was a former British colony in West Africa, centered in present-day Ghana, that served as a major hub for trade and colonial administration until its independence as Ghana in 1957.
  • C. French West Africa
    French West Africa was a federation of eight French colonial territories in West Africa that served as a major political and military base for France, especially during both World Wars.
  • D. Prussian Gold Coast
    The Prussian Gold Coast was a short-lived 17th–18th century colonial possession of the Kingdom of Prussia on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, established mainly for trade in gold and other commodities.
  • E. British South Africa
    British South Africa refers to the territories in southern Africa that were under British colonial rule, including regions that later became countries such as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69be5cdefda8819095fbc04446bf32f5 completed March 21, 2026, 8:54 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:25 p.m.