Triple

T50694
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dutch East Indies E993 entity
Predicate borderedBy P224 FINISHED
Object Borneo territories of the British Empire
The Borneo territories of the British Empire were colonial possessions on the island of Borneo, including areas such as British North Borneo (Sabah), Sarawak, and the protectorate of Brunei, administered under British control in Southeast Asia.
E3961 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: Borneo territories of the British Empire | Statement: [Dutch East Indies, borderedBy, Borneo territories of the British Empire]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Borneo territories of the British Empire
Context triple: [Dutch East Indies, borderedBy, Borneo territories of the British Empire]
  • A. Dutch East Indies
    The Dutch East Indies was a vast Dutch colonial territory in Southeast Asia that largely corresponds to present-day Indonesia and played a central role in global spice and trade networks.
  • B. British India
    British India was the vast territory on the Indian subcontinent administered by the British Crown and its agents from the 18th to mid-20th century, forming the core of the British Empire in Asia.
  • C. Ceylon (Dutch Ceylon)
    Ceylon (Dutch Ceylon) was a former Dutch colonial territory on the island of Sri Lanka, controlled mainly for its strategic ports and lucrative cinnamon trade from the mid-17th to late 18th century.
  • D. 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.
  • 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: Borneo territories of the British Empire
Triple: [Dutch East Indies, borderedBy, Borneo territories of the British Empire]
Generated description
The Borneo territories of the British Empire were colonial possessions on the island of Borneo, including areas such as British North Borneo (Sabah), Sarawak, and the protectorate of Brunei, administered under British control in Southeast Asia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Borneo territories of the British Empire
Target entity description: The Borneo territories of the British Empire were colonial possessions on the island of Borneo, including areas such as British North Borneo (Sabah), Sarawak, and the protectorate of Brunei, administered under British control in Southeast Asia.
  • A. Dutch East Indies
    The Dutch East Indies was a vast Dutch colonial territory in Southeast Asia that largely corresponds to present-day Indonesia and played a central role in global spice and trade networks.
  • B. British India
    British India was the vast territory on the Indian subcontinent administered by the British Crown and its agents from the 18th to mid-20th century, forming the core of the British Empire in Asia.
  • C. Ceylon (Dutch Ceylon)
    Ceylon (Dutch Ceylon) was a former Dutch colonial territory on the island of Sri Lanka, controlled mainly for its strategic ports and lucrative cinnamon trade from the mid-17th to late 18th century.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Colonial Office
    The Colonial Office was the British government department responsible for administering and overseeing the governance of the British Empire’s colonies and territories.
  • 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_69a2480baefc81909951b14058479aa2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:42 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24af56cc88190a898f8bf2a283820 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a24e659ac48190a11b70a85867d784 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a24eff3f0881909b46502175682d99 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2542d9b388190bcc4581c3b79aa51 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:47 a.m.