Triple
T1620445
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Crossing of the Drakensberg |
E35017
|
entity |
| Predicate | category |
P87
|
FINISHED |
| Object | History of the Great Trek |
E5798
|
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: History of the Great Trek | Statement: [Crossing of the Drakensberg, category, History of the Great Trek]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: History of the Great Trek Context triple: [Crossing of the Drakensberg, category, History of the Great Trek]
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A.
Great Trek
chosen
The Great Trek was a 19th-century migration of Dutch-speaking Afrikaner settlers who moved inland from the British-controlled Cape Colony to establish independent Boer republics in southern Africa.
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B.
Voortrekkers
The Voortrekkers were Dutch-speaking Boer pioneers who migrated inland from the Cape Colony during the 1830s–1840s Great Trek, founding independent republics and playing a central role in early Afrikaner history.
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C.
Transvaal Trek
Transvaal Trek was a segment of the 19th-century Great Trek in which Boer settlers migrated into the Transvaal region to escape British colonial rule and establish independent republics.
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D.
Khoikhoi–Dutch conflicts at the Cape
The Khoikhoi–Dutch conflicts at the Cape were a series of 17th- and 18th-century wars and skirmishes between Indigenous Khoikhoi pastoralists and Dutch colonists over land, cattle, and control of trade in the Cape region of southern Africa.
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E.
Boer Wars
The Boer Wars were two late 19th- and early 20th-century conflicts in South Africa between the British Empire and the Boer republics, pivotal in shaping modern South African history and British imperial policy.
- 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_69a886023194819080a3fccd6e325d0e |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a909b0738c8190b073e0ccec5e217d |
completed | March 5, 2026, 4:42 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ada0c3111081909bb8e503e77351cf |
completed | March 8, 2026, 4:16 p.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:28 p.m.