Triple
T5444783
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Wilcox family |
E122220
|
entity |
| Predicate | businessInterest |
P3849
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Imperial and Colonial enterprises (general) |
E19902
|
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: Imperial and Colonial enterprises (general) | Statement: [Wilcox family, businessInterest, Imperial and Colonial enterprises (general)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Imperial and Colonial enterprises (general) Context triple: [Wilcox family, businessInterest, Imperial and Colonial enterprises (general)]
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A.
European colonial empires
chosen
European colonial empires were vast overseas dominions established and controlled by European powers from the early modern period onward, characterized by territorial conquest, resource extraction, and political domination of colonized regions across the globe.
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B.
Imperialism and World Economy
"Imperialism and World Economy" is a Marxist economic analysis by Nikolai Bukharin that examines how the development of global capitalism and finance capital leads to imperialist expansion and inter-imperialist rivalry.
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C.
Dominions of the British Empire
The Dominions of the British Empire were semi-autonomous, self-governing polities within the British Empire—such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—that recognized the British monarch as head of state while managing their own internal affairs.
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D.
British informal empire in China
The British informal empire in China was a network of economic, legal, and political influences exerted by Britain over Qing and Republican China through unequal treaties, treaty ports, and extraterritorial privileges rather than direct colonial rule.
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E.
The Budget: On Commercial and Colonial Policy
"The Budget: On Commercial and Colonial Policy" is a 19th-century economic treatise by Robert Torrens that analyzes trade and colonial policies within the framework of classical political economy.
- 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_69bd4640f52c81909e653ec361f66d76 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd91ce3e4081908e11a731416c0378 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 6:28 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bf4132bcf08190af2ca506a40fb26e |
completed | March 22, 2026, 1:09 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:07 p.m.