Triple

T12866189
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Barney Barnato E307724 entity
Predicate businessRival P16079 FINISHED
Object Cecil Rhodes E44228 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: Cecil Rhodes | Statement: [Barney Barnato, businessRival, Cecil Rhodes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cecil Rhodes
Context triple: [Barney Barnato, businessRival, Cecil Rhodes]
  • A. Cecil Rhodes chosen
    Cecil Rhodes was a British imperialist, businessman, and politician in southern Africa whose wealth and will established the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford.
  • B. Sir Theophilus Shepstone
    Sir Theophilus Shepstone was a 19th-century British colonial administrator in South Africa, influential in native affairs and territorial annexations under the British Empire.
  • C. Henry Bartle Frere
    Henry Bartle Frere was a 19th-century British colonial administrator and diplomat best known for his controversial role as High Commissioner for Southern Africa, including actions that helped precipitate the Anglo-Zulu War.
  • D. Frederick Lugard
    Frederick Lugard was a British colonial administrator and soldier best known for his role in establishing British rule in Nigeria and formulating the doctrine of indirect rule in Africa.
  • E. Henry Stanley, 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley
    Henry Stanley, 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley, was a 19th-century British peer and Liberal politician from the prominent Stanley family.
  • 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_69d7bdf69bc48190af6c2621f28ca351 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9708e0b788190b72a3057e271c227 completed April 10, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6cbbb199081909c32575097fbc2bf completed May 3, 2026, 4:14 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:38 p.m.