Triple
T599763
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Portuguese Empire |
E11466
|
entity |
| Predicate | territory |
P2160
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Portuguese East Africa |
E13411
|
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: Portuguese East Africa | Statement: [Portuguese Empire, territory, Portuguese East Africa]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Portuguese East Africa Context triple: [Portuguese Empire, territory, Portuguese East Africa]
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A.
French Equatorial Africa
French Equatorial Africa was a federation of French colonial territories in central Africa that served as an important political and military base for Free French forces during World War II.
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B.
Cabinda
Cabinda is a small, oil-rich province on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa that is geographically separated from the rest of Angola by a strip of territory belonging to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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C.
Angola
Angola is a resource-rich country on Africa’s southwest coast, known for its oil and diamond industries and its history of a long civil war following independence.
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D.
Mozambique
chosen
Mozambique is a southeastern African nation on the Indian Ocean known for its Portuguese colonial heritage, rich cultural diversity, and extensive coastline with important ports and marine resources.
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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_69a4932779b881908688590d59c71900 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a49d78c0f08190b83ad89062ccb0b9 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:11 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a6786f051481909474159c0e1f886c |
completed | March 3, 2026, 5:58 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:35 p.m.