Triple

T766725
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject French West Africa E16190 entity
Predicate borderedBy P224 FINISHED
Object British West Africa
British West Africa was a collective term for Britain’s colonial territories in West Africa, including colonies such as Nigeria, the Gold Coast (Ghana), Sierra Leone, and the Gambia.
E91497 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: British West Africa | Statement: [French West Africa, borderedBy, British West Africa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British West Africa
Context triple: [French West Africa, borderedBy, British West Africa]
  • A. British Gold Coast
    The British Gold Coast was a former British colony in West Africa, centered in present-day Ghana, that served as a major hub for trade and colonial administration until its independence as Ghana in 1957.
  • B. French West Africa
    French West Africa was a federation of eight French colonial territories in West Africa that served as a major political and military base for France, especially during both World Wars.
  • C. Mano River Union
    The Mano River Union is a subregional organization in West Africa that promotes economic cooperation and regional integration among its member states.
  • D. 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.
  • E. West Africa
    West Africa is a region on the western coast of the African continent, historically significant for its role in trans-Saharan and Atlantic trade, diverse cultures and languages, and complex precolonial and colonial histories.
  • 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: British West Africa
Triple: [French West Africa, borderedBy, British West Africa]
Generated description
British West Africa was a collective term for Britain’s colonial territories in West Africa, including colonies such as Nigeria, the Gold Coast (Ghana), Sierra Leone, and the Gambia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British West Africa
Target entity description: British West Africa was a collective term for Britain’s colonial territories in West Africa, including colonies such as Nigeria, the Gold Coast (Ghana), Sierra Leone, and the Gambia.
  • A. British Gold Coast
    The British Gold Coast was a former British colony in West Africa, centered in present-day Ghana, that served as a major hub for trade and colonial administration until its independence as Ghana in 1957.
  • B. French West Africa
    French West Africa was a federation of eight French colonial territories in West Africa that served as a major political and military base for France, especially during both World Wars.
  • C. Mano River Union
    The Mano River Union is a subregional organization in West Africa that promotes economic cooperation and regional integration among its member states.
  • D. 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.
  • E. West Africa
    West Africa is a region on the western coast of the African continent, historically significant for its role in trans-Saharan and Atlantic trade, diverse cultures and languages, and complex precolonial and colonial histories.
  • 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.