Triple
T2026255
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey |
E44413
|
entity |
| Predicate | burialPlace |
P196
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Lichtenburg, South Africa |
E53400
|
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: Lichtenburg, South Africa | Statement: [Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey, burialPlace, Lichtenburg, South Africa]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lichtenburg, South Africa Context triple: [Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey, burialPlace, Lichtenburg, South Africa]
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A.
Lichtenburg, Transvaal
chosen
Lichtenburg, Transvaal was a town in the former Transvaal province of South Africa, historically notable as a rural Boer settlement and later for its role in regional agriculture and diamond discoveries.
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B.
Natal, South Africa
Natal, South Africa was a former British colony and later a province on the country’s eastern coast, centered around the port city of Durban and known for its diverse population and sugarcane agriculture.
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C.
Rustenburg
Rustenburg is a city in South Africa’s North West Province known for its mining industry and as one of the venues for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
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D.
Oudtshoorn
Oudtshoorn is a South African town famed as the "ostrich capital of the world," known for its ostrich farms, Cango Caves, and semi-arid Karoo landscape.
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E.
Graskop
Graskop is a small tourist town in northeastern South Africa known as a gateway to the Panorama Route and nearby natural attractions like waterfalls and the Blyde River Canyon.
- 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_69a889144f2481909932f0746a93023d |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abb91055d88190a980e7b42e5895d4 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:35 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ae1fead86c8190b3b247e88aad30f9 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 1:18 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:38 p.m.