Triple

T532154
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Colony of Aden E12245 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object British Western Aden Protectorate sphere
The British Western Aden Protectorate sphere was a British-controlled region in southwestern Arabia that encompassed various protectorate states surrounding the port of Aden during the colonial period.
E67215 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 Western Aden Protectorate sphere | Statement: [Colony of Aden, partOf, British Western Aden Protectorate sphere]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Western Aden Protectorate sphere
Context triple: [Colony of Aden, partOf, British Western Aden Protectorate sphere]
  • A. Colony of Aden
    The Colony of Aden was a British Crown colony centered on the port city of Aden in present-day Yemen, serving as a key strategic and commercial hub from 1937 until its incorporation into the Federation of South Arabia.
  • 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. Rajputana Agency
    Rajputana Agency was a British Indian administrative unit comprising a group of princely states in the region now largely corresponding to the modern Indian state of Rajasthan.
  • D. British Indian Ocean Territory
    The British Indian Ocean Territory is a remote UK overseas territory in the Indian Ocean, best known for hosting the U.S.–UK military base on Diego Garcia and having no permanent civilian population.
  • E. Dominion of India
    The Dominion of India was the semi-independent constitutional monarchy that succeeded British colonial rule in 1947 and existed until India became a republic in 1950.
  • 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 Western Aden Protectorate sphere
Triple: [Colony of Aden, partOf, British Western Aden Protectorate sphere]
Generated description
The British Western Aden Protectorate sphere was a British-controlled region in southwestern Arabia that encompassed various protectorate states surrounding the port of Aden during the colonial period.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Western Aden Protectorate sphere
Target entity description: The British Western Aden Protectorate sphere was a British-controlled region in southwestern Arabia that encompassed various protectorate states surrounding the port of Aden during the colonial period.
  • A. Colony of Aden
    The Colony of Aden was a British Crown colony centered on the port city of Aden in present-day Yemen, serving as a key strategic and commercial hub from 1937 until its incorporation into the Federation of South Arabia.
  • 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. Rajputana Agency
    Rajputana Agency was a British Indian administrative unit comprising a group of princely states in the region now largely corresponding to the modern Indian state of Rajasthan.
  • D. British Indian Ocean Territory
    The British Indian Ocean Territory is a remote UK overseas territory in the Indian Ocean, best known for hosting the U.S.–UK military base on Diego Garcia and having no permanent civilian population.
  • E. Dominion of India
    The Dominion of India was the semi-independent constitutional monarchy that succeeded British colonial rule in 1947 and existed until India became a republic in 1950.
  • 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_69a4933208e88190891f5debab1b776d completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a494df2c388190bf1b7672a25137af completed March 1, 2026, 7:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4c02df1fc8190bdb1410bd020af62 completed March 1, 2026, 10:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4c437206c819087cefdb3d163e953 completed March 1, 2026, 10:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4c55468808190a997500ad8895f8c completed March 1, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.