Triple
T5454113
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Heart of Darkness |
E122437
|
entity |
| Predicate | setting |
P1957
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Congo Free State |
E102002
|
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: Congo Free State | Statement: [Heart of Darkness, setting, Congo Free State]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Congo Free State Context triple: [Heart of Darkness, setting, Congo Free State]
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A.
Congo Free State
chosen
The Congo Free State was a vast Central African territory privately controlled by Belgium’s King Leopold II in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, notorious for extreme exploitation and atrocities during European colonial expansion.
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B.
Congo-Léopoldville
Congo-Léopoldville was the name of the newly independent central African state now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the early 1960s, a period marked by political crisis and UN peacekeeping intervention.
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C.
Sovereign of the Congo Free State
The Sovereign of the Congo Free State was the monarch who personally ruled the Congo Free State as a private colonial possession, most infamously held by King Leopold II of Belgium during a period marked by extreme exploitation and atrocities.
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D.
Belgian Congo (as associated territory)
Belgian Congo (as associated territory) was a central African colony under Belgian rule that served as the administrative and economic hub for nearby territories such as Ruanda-Urundi during the colonial period.
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E.
Dutch Gold Coast
The Dutch Gold Coast was a former colonial territory of the Netherlands on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, centered on a network of coastal forts and trading posts involved in the Atlantic slave trade and commerce in gold and other goods.
- 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_69bd46424248819085282ddf50a565f3 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd91ed9a388190967e7ffaf9dbadc6 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 6:29 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bf41433abc8190998bdb0fa8b18041 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 1:09 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:08 p.m.