Triple
T7071834
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland |
E164716
|
entity |
| Predicate | predecessor |
P97
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Northern Rhodesia (British protectorate) |
E314715
|
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: Northern Rhodesia (British protectorate) | Statement: [Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, predecessor, Northern Rhodesia (British protectorate)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Northern Rhodesia (British protectorate) Context triple: [Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, predecessor, Northern Rhodesia (British protectorate)]
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A.
Northern Rhodesia
chosen
Northern Rhodesia was a former British protectorate in south-central Africa that later became the independent nation of Zambia in 1964.
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B.
Nyasaland
Nyasaland was a former British protectorate in southeastern Africa that later became the independent nation of Malawi in 1964.
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C.
Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was a mid-20th-century semi-autonomous colonial union in southern Africa that combined the territories of modern-day Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi under British rule.
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D.
Nkana, Northern Rhodesia
Nkana, Northern Rhodesia was a mining town in what is now Zambia, historically known for its copper industry during the British colonial period.
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E.
Rhodesia
Rhodesia was an unrecognized, white-minority-ruled state in southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979 in the territory of modern-day Zimbabwe.
- 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_69c6887b96548190a8a9b3ac8adf4119 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6e4c9cdbc8190b91cd3b4eef58eb6 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 8:12 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c7bf765d2481908d9ba1918f46bcda |
completed | March 28, 2026, 11:45 a.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:39 p.m.