Triple
T2046586
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey |
E45465
|
entity |
| Predicate | residence |
P75
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Lichtenburg, Transvaal |
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, Transvaal | Statement: [Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey, residence, Lichtenburg, Transvaal]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lichtenburg, Transvaal Context triple: [Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey, residence, Lichtenburg, Transvaal]
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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.
Transvaal
Transvaal was a former Boer republic and later British colony in what is now northeastern South Africa, central to the conflicts and politics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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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.
Griqualand West
Griqualand West was a 19th-century British colonial territory in southern Africa, centered on the diamond-rich area around Kimberley.
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E.
Graaff-Reinet
Graaff-Reinet is a historic town in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, known as one of the country’s oldest settlements and a center of early Afrikaner history.
- 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_69a8891948208190ab7898da21824c77 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abb973a51881908c2c1e633daa3cb4 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:36 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ae27170870819083112aee662c681c |
completed | March 9, 2026, 1:49 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:39 p.m.