Triple
T9256238
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ceylon (Constitution) Order in Council 1946 |
E222449
|
entity |
| Predicate | appliesTo |
P1129
|
FINISHED |
| Object | British Crown Colony of Ceylon |
E13053
|
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: British Crown Colony of Ceylon | Statement: [Ceylon (Constitution) Order in Council 1946, appliesTo, British Crown Colony of Ceylon]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Crown Colony of Ceylon Context triple: [Ceylon (Constitution) Order in Council 1946, appliesTo, British Crown Colony of Ceylon]
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A.
territory of Ceylon
The territory of Ceylon was the geographic domain of the former British Crown colony and later independent state of Ceylon, corresponding largely to present-day Sri Lanka.
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B.
Dominion of Ceylon
The Dominion of Ceylon was a British Commonwealth realm in South Asia that existed from 1948 to 1972, when it became the fully independent republic of Sri Lanka.
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C.
British Ceylon
chosen
British Ceylon was the British colonial possession in the Indian Ocean that encompassed the island of present-day Sri Lanka from the late 18th century until its independence in 1948.
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D.
Ceylon (Dutch Ceylon)
Ceylon (Dutch Ceylon) was a former Dutch colonial territory on the island of Sri Lanka, controlled mainly for its strategic ports and lucrative cinnamon trade from the mid-17th to late 18th century.
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E.
Crown Colony of Singapore
The Crown Colony of Singapore was a British colonial territory established after World War II, marking Singapore’s separation from the Straits Settlements and its direct administration as a distinct crown colony until it gained self-governance and later independence.
- 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_69ca841e4cd481908e738c74e958eaea |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cd06b4e2048190af0d65b904677c36 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 11:51 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d09be75fd88190b6e99b0884dcc14c |
completed | April 4, 2026, 5:04 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:32 p.m.