Triple

T1120838
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Zulu Kingdom E24606 entity
Predicate capital P234 FINISHED
Object Ulundi
Ulundi is a historic town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, best known as the former royal and political center of the Zulu Kingdom and the site of key events in the Anglo-Zulu War.
 E161017 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: Ulundi | Statement: [Zulu Kingdom, capital, Ulundi]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ulundi
Context triple: [Zulu Kingdom, capital, Ulundi]
  • A. Egoli
    Egoli is a common nickname for Johannesburg, South Africa’s major economic hub often referred to as the "City of Gold."
  • B. Rustenburg
    Rustenburg is a city in South Africa’s North West Province known for its mining industry and as one of the venues for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
  • C. Oudtshoorn
    Oudtshoorn is a South African town famed as the "ostrich capital of the world," known for its ostrich farms, Cango Caves, and semi-arid Karoo landscape.
  • D. Bloemfontein
    Bloemfontein is a major South African city known as the seat of the country’s highest courts and one of its three national capitals.
  • E. Makhuwa
    Makhuwa is a major Bantu language spoken primarily in northern Mozambique by the Makhuwa people.
  • 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: Ulundi
Triple: [Zulu Kingdom, capital, Ulundi]
Generated description
Ulundi is a historic town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, best known as the former royal and political center of the Zulu Kingdom and the site of key events in the Anglo-Zulu War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ulundi
Target entity description: Ulundi is a historic town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, best known as the former royal and political center of the Zulu Kingdom and the site of key events in the Anglo-Zulu War.
  • A. Egoli
    Egoli is a common nickname for Johannesburg, South Africa’s major economic hub often referred to as the "City of Gold."
  • B. Rustenburg
    Rustenburg is a city in South Africa’s North West Province known for its mining industry and as one of the venues for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
  • C. Oudtshoorn
    Oudtshoorn is a South African town famed as the "ostrich capital of the world," known for its ostrich farms, Cango Caves, and semi-arid Karoo landscape.
  • D. Bloemfontein
    Bloemfontein is a major South African city known as the seat of the country’s highest courts and one of its three national capitals.
  • E. Makhuwa
    Makhuwa is a major Bantu language spoken primarily in northern Mozambique by the Makhuwa people.
  • 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_69a4940712c88190aa244f3fc6070a65 completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bbbe58588190a5ef6346e269d5f3 completed March 1, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ace54f52988190b25c35271721c3ee completed March 8, 2026, 2:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ace5db553c8190b0d09462411f3dcf completed March 8, 2026, 2:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ace647c04881908ab550505110c29b completed March 8, 2026, 3 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.