Triple

T17577651
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Municipal Structures Act E428113 entity
Predicate actNumber P5467 FINISHED
Object Act 117 of 1998
Act 117 of 1998 is a South African law that provides the framework for the establishment, governance, and functioning of municipalities and their political structures.
E1277060 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: Act 117 of 1998 | Statement: [Municipal Structures Act, actNumber, Act 117 of 1998]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Act 117 of 1998
Context triple: [Municipal Structures Act, actNumber, Act 117 of 1998]
  • A. Act No. 1870
    Act No. 1870 is the Philippine legislative act that established the University of the Philippines as the country’s national university.
  • B. Act No. 73 of 1993
    Act No. 73 of 1993 is the Indian legislation that established and governs the National Council for Teacher Education as the statutory body responsible for regulating teacher education in India.
  • C. Public Law 99-198
    Public Law 99-198 is a major U.S. federal statute, commonly known as the Food Security Act of 1985, that overhauled agricultural policy, including farm income support, conservation programs, and food assistance.
  • D. Evans-Allen Act of 1977
    The Evans-Allen Act of 1977 is a U.S. federal law that provides formula-based funding for agricultural research at historically Black land-grant universities, supporting their capacity to conduct scientific research in food, agriculture, and related fields.
  • E. Public Law 105-298
    Public Law 105-298 is the U.S. federal statute, commonly known as the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, that extended the duration of copyright protection for works in the United States.
  • 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: Act 117 of 1998
Triple: [Municipal Structures Act, actNumber, Act 117 of 1998]
Generated description
Act 117 of 1998 is a South African law that provides the framework for the establishment, governance, and functioning of municipalities and their political structures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Act 117 of 1998
Target entity description: Act 117 of 1998 is a South African law that provides the framework for the establishment, governance, and functioning of municipalities and their political structures.
  • A. Act No. 1870
    Act No. 1870 is the Philippine legislative act that established the University of the Philippines as the country’s national university.
  • B. Act No. 73 of 1993
    Act No. 73 of 1993 is the Indian legislation that established and governs the National Council for Teacher Education as the statutory body responsible for regulating teacher education in India.
  • C. Public Law 99-198
    Public Law 99-198 is a major U.S. federal statute, commonly known as the Food Security Act of 1985, that overhauled agricultural policy, including farm income support, conservation programs, and food assistance.
  • D. Evans-Allen Act of 1977
    The Evans-Allen Act of 1977 is a U.S. federal law that provides formula-based funding for agricultural research at historically Black land-grant universities, supporting their capacity to conduct scientific research in food, agriculture, and related fields.
  • E. Public Law 105-298
    Public Law 105-298 is the U.S. federal statute, commonly known as the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, that extended the duration of copyright protection for works in the United States.
  • 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_69d889e0385081908a04b66f4dd4bd0d completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e463cb40088190b726f2c026358cf2 completed April 19, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01ddebfec88190a6783388521faf57 completed May 11, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01e2779a2c8190ab895dd0399b40e1 completed May 11, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01e30e76548190a51ff1ee870c563f completed May 11, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:50 a.m.