Triple

T766721
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject French West Africa E16190 entity
Predicate governingBody P46 FINISHED
Object Governor-General of French West Africa
The Governor-General of French West Africa was the highest colonial official overseeing administration and policy across the federation of French territories in West Africa.
E91496 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: Governor-General of French West Africa | Statement: [French West Africa, governingBody, Governor-General of French West Africa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Governor-General of French West Africa
Context triple: [French West Africa, governingBody, Governor-General of French West Africa]
  • A. Governor-General of French Indochina
    The Governor-General of French Indochina was the highest-ranking colonial official representing French authority and administering the federation of colonies in Southeast Asia from the late 19th to mid-20th century.
  • B. Governor-General of Grenada
    The Governor-General of Grenada is the monarch’s appointed representative who performs ceremonial duties and exercises certain constitutional powers within Grenada’s parliamentary democracy.
  • C. Governor General of Canada
    The Governor General of Canada is the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, performing constitutional, ceremonial, and community roles at the national level.
  • D. Governor of the Central Provinces and Berar
    The Governor of the Central Provinces and Berar was the British colonial head of administration for the Central Provinces and Berar in India, overseeing governance and imperial policy in the region until Indian independence.
  • E. Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces
    The Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces was the senior British colonial administrative official responsible for overseeing governance and administration in the Central Provinces region of British India.
  • 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: Governor-General of French West Africa
Triple: [French West Africa, governingBody, Governor-General of French West Africa]
Generated description
The Governor-General of French West Africa was the highest colonial official overseeing administration and policy across the federation of French territories in West Africa.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Governor-General of French West Africa
Target entity description: The Governor-General of French West Africa was the highest colonial official overseeing administration and policy across the federation of French territories in West Africa.
  • A. Governor-General of French Indochina
    The Governor-General of French Indochina was the highest-ranking colonial official representing French authority and administering the federation of colonies in Southeast Asia from the late 19th to mid-20th century.
  • B. Governor-General of Grenada
    The Governor-General of Grenada is the monarch’s appointed representative who performs ceremonial duties and exercises certain constitutional powers within Grenada’s parliamentary democracy.
  • C. Governor General of Canada
    The Governor General of Canada is the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, performing constitutional, ceremonial, and community roles at the national level.
  • D. Governor of the Central Provinces and Berar
    The Governor of the Central Provinces and Berar was the British colonial head of administration for the Central Provinces and Berar in India, overseeing governance and imperial policy in the region until Indian independence.
  • E. Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces
    The Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces was the senior British colonial administrative official responsible for overseeing governance and administration in the Central Provinces region of British India.
  • 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_69a493684ee48190bd43b7c78da4aec8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a6a0fee08190bf365d14c007e008 completed March 1, 2026, 8:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a666760a4c8190afd00dbfc263be28 completed March 3, 2026, 4:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a66a6289a881909a2ada9c8a5ea091 completed March 3, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a66ad0da0081909fc828eccabf5b80 completed March 3, 2026, 5 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.