Triple

T7073824
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Southern African Customs Union E164764 entity
Predicate hasPredecessor P97 FINISHED
Object Customs Union Convention of 1889
The Customs Union Convention of 1889 was an early regional trade agreement in southern Africa that laid the groundwork for economic integration later formalized in the Southern African Customs Union.
E639775 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: Customs Union Convention of 1889 | Statement: [Southern African Customs Union, hasPredecessor, Customs Union Convention of 1889]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Customs Union Convention of 1889
Context triple: [Southern African Customs Union, hasPredecessor, Customs Union Convention of 1889]
  • A. Benelux Treaty
    The Benelux Treaty is an international agreement that established the framework for economic, political, and administrative cooperation among Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
  • B. Libero tariff association
    The Libero tariff association is a regional public transport fare network in Switzerland that coordinates integrated ticketing and pricing across multiple transport operators and modes.
  • C. South German Customs Union
    The South German Customs Union was a 19th-century regional customs alliance of several southern German states that served as a precursor to broader German economic unification.
  • D. London Convention of 1871
    The London Convention of 1871 was an international agreement that revised key provisions of the Treaty of Paris (1856), notably allowing Russia to remilitarize the Black Sea and reshaping the balance of power in Eastern Europe.
  • E. The Customs Union Issue
    The Customs Union Issue is a seminal 1950 economic study by Jacob Viner that analyzes the welfare effects of customs unions through the concepts of trade creation and trade diversion.
  • 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: Customs Union Convention of 1889
Triple: [Southern African Customs Union, hasPredecessor, Customs Union Convention of 1889]
Generated description
The Customs Union Convention of 1889 was an early regional trade agreement in southern Africa that laid the groundwork for economic integration later formalized in the Southern African Customs Union.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Customs Union Convention of 1889
Target entity description: The Customs Union Convention of 1889 was an early regional trade agreement in southern Africa that laid the groundwork for economic integration later formalized in the Southern African Customs Union.
  • A. Benelux Treaty
    The Benelux Treaty is an international agreement that established the framework for economic, political, and administrative cooperation among Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
  • B. Libero tariff association
    The Libero tariff association is a regional public transport fare network in Switzerland that coordinates integrated ticketing and pricing across multiple transport operators and modes.
  • C. South German Customs Union
    The South German Customs Union was a 19th-century regional customs alliance of several southern German states that served as a precursor to broader German economic unification.
  • D. London Convention of 1871
    The London Convention of 1871 was an international agreement that revised key provisions of the Treaty of Paris (1856), notably allowing Russia to remilitarize the Black Sea and reshaping the balance of power in Eastern Europe.
  • E. The Customs Union Issue
    The Customs Union Issue is a seminal 1950 economic study by Jacob Viner that analyzes the welfare effects of customs unions through the concepts of trade creation and trade diversion.
  • 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_69c6887b96548190a8a9b3ac8adf4119 completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e4ccb42c81909f5627aa97db7a84 completed March 27, 2026, 8:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c794641dd481908df979600b7a8e92 completed March 28, 2026, 8:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7950271a48190b6e0c3f307ebdc5a completed March 28, 2026, 8:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7957439b8819081fb2721bbd8b65c completed March 28, 2026, 8:46 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:39 p.m.