Triple
T7372071
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | British South Africa |
E170029
|
entity |
| Predicate | linkedToCompany |
P51457
|
FINISHED |
| Object | British South Africa Company |
E54573
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: British South Africa Company | Statement: [British South Africa, linkedToCompany, British South Africa Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British South Africa Company Context triple: [British South Africa, linkedToCompany, British South Africa Company]
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A.
British South Africa Company
chosen
The British South Africa Company was a chartered company founded by Cecil Rhodes that administered and exploited large areas of southern and central Africa, notably in territories that became Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Royal Niger Company
The Royal Niger Company was a British chartered company that controlled trade and administered large parts of the Niger River region in the late 19th century, laying groundwork for the eventual formation of colonial Nigeria.
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C.
British South Africa
British South Africa refers to the territories in southern Africa that were under British colonial rule, including regions that later became countries such as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi.
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D.
F. A. Lüderitz & Co.
F. A. Lüderitz & Co. was the trading and colonial enterprise founded by German merchant Adolf Lüderitz that played a key role in the early German colonization of what became German South West Africa (now Namibia).
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E.
Voortrekker Monument Company
Voortrekker Monument Company is the organization responsible for managing and preserving the historic Voortrekker Monument and its associated heritage site in Pretoria, South Africa.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: linkedToCompany Context triple: [British South Africa, linkedToCompany, British South Africa Company]
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A.
belongsToCompany
Indicates that an entity is owned, employed, or otherwise formally associated with a specific company.
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B.
hasAssociatedCompany
chosen
Indicates that one entity is linked or connected to a company in an associated or affiliated manner.
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C.
memberCompany
Indicates that a company is formally part of, or affiliated as a member with, a larger organization, group, or association.
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D.
selectedCompany
Indicates that a particular company has been chosen or designated from a set of possible companies.
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E.
associatedWithCompanyHeadquarters
Indicates that an entity has a relationship or connection to the headquarters location of a specific company.
- F. None of above.
Provenance (4 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_69c68a5bfaac81909ce7f001dfb70c76 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6f18451d88190ad4a2674279bb703 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 9:07 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c802c711788190806987567dbc9942 |
completed | March 28, 2026, 4:33 p.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69c6f02ee3e08190a7a00c981129b22c |
completed | March 27, 2026, 9:01 p.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:07 p.m.