Triple
T11263648
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Mahikeng |
E266626
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableEvent |
P259
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Siege of Mafeking |
E106332
|
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: Siege of Mafeking | Statement: [Mahikeng, notableEvent, Siege of Mafeking]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Siege of Mafeking Context triple: [Mahikeng, notableEvent, Siege of Mafeking]
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A.
Siege of Mafeking
chosen
The Siege of Mafeking was a famous 217-day Boer War siege of a British-held town in South Africa whose relief became a major propaganda victory and symbol of British resilience.
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B.
Siege of Ladysmith
The Siege of Ladysmith was a major engagement of the Second Boer War (1899–1902) in which British forces were encircled and besieged by Boer commandos in the town of Ladysmith in present-day South Africa.
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C.
Battle of Ladysmith
The Battle of Ladysmith was an early engagement of the Second Boer War in 1899 in which British forces clashed with Boer commandos around the town of Ladysmith in Natal, South Africa.
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D.
Siege of Kimberley
The Siege of Kimberley was a key early engagement of the Second Boer War in which Boer forces surrounded the diamond-mining town of Kimberley, South Africa, prompting a prolonged British defense and a high-profile relief effort.
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E.
Siege of Pretoria
The Siege of Pretoria was a key early engagement of the First Boer War in 1880–1881, during which Boer forces surrounded and blockaded the British-held town of Pretoria in the Transvaal.
- 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_69d6aac7953c8190b82caf9d7640fdf9 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d7e94d56048190bf808e1bc2188714 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 6 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69e4ccba233481909f00ebe2237c4f0c |
completed | April 19, 2026, 12:38 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:31 p.m.