Triple

T11680987
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject eastern frontier of the Cape Colony E277612 entity
Predicate conflict P12 FINISHED
Object Xhosa Wars E55477 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: Xhosa Wars | Statement: [eastern frontier of the Cape Colony, conflict, Xhosa Wars]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Xhosa Wars
Context triple: [eastern frontier of the Cape Colony, conflict, Xhosa Wars]
  • A. Xhosa Wars chosen
    The Xhosa Wars were a series of 19th-century frontier conflicts in South Africa between the Xhosa peoples and European colonial powers, primarily the British, over land and political control in the Eastern Cape region.
  • B. Basuto Wars
    The Basuto Wars were a series of 19th-century conflicts in southern Africa between the Basotho people and neighboring Boer republics, primarily over land and political control.
  • C. Boer–Zulu conflicts
    The Boer–Zulu conflicts were a series of 19th-century clashes in southern Africa between Boer settlers and the Zulu Kingdom over land, political control, and regional dominance.
  • D. Zulu civil wars
    The Zulu civil wars were a series of internal power struggles and succession conflicts within the Zulu Kingdom in the 19th century that weakened its political cohesion and military strength.
  • E. Anglo-Zulu War
    The Anglo-Zulu War was an 1879 conflict in southern Africa between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom, marked by famous battles such as Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift and resulting in the eventual defeat and dismantling of the Zulu state.
  • 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_69d6aafd0a448190b44da30af8c6c519 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a461b0908190bef4e1c6777affcf completed April 10, 2026, 7:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f1665e02f88190b805c72d3944a565 completed April 29, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:40 p.m.