Triple

T21157490
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ambassador of South Africa to the United States E521348 entity
Predicate officeHoldersInclude P537 FINISHED
Object H. C. J. van der Walt
H. C. J. van der Walt is a South African diplomat who has served as his country’s ambassador to the United States.
E1469148 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: H. C. J. van der Walt | Statement: [Ambassador of South Africa to the United States, officeHoldersInclude, H. C. J. van der Walt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: H. C. J. van der Walt
Context triple: [Ambassador of South Africa to the United States, officeHoldersInclude, H. C. J. van der Walt]
  • A. Andries Gerhardus Visser
    Andries Gerhardus Visser was a South African poet and lawyer known for his influential contributions to early 20th-century Afrikaans literature.
  • B. Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr
    Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr was a prominent 19th-century South African politician and leader of the Afrikaner nationalist movement who played a key role in shaping Afrikaner political identity.
  • C. Franciscus Bernardus Maria de Waal
    Franciscus Bernardus Maria de Waal, better known as Frans de Waal, was a Dutch primatologist and ethologist renowned for his pioneering research on animal cognition, empathy, and the evolutionary roots of human morality.
  • D. Johannes Gerhardus Burgers
    Johannes Gerhardus Burgers was a Dutch physicist and mathematician renowned for his work in fluid dynamics and for formulating the Burgers equation, a fundamental partial differential equation in applied mathematics.
  • E. Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff
    Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff was a 19th-century South African politician who served as the second State President of the Orange Free State.
  • 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: H. C. J. van der Walt
Triple: [Ambassador of South Africa to the United States, officeHoldersInclude, H. C. J. van der Walt]
Generated description
H. C. J. van der Walt is a South African diplomat who has served as his country’s ambassador to the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: H. C. J. van der Walt
Target entity description: H. C. J. van der Walt is a South African diplomat who has served as his country’s ambassador to the United States.
  • A. Andries Gerhardus Visser
    Andries Gerhardus Visser was a South African poet and lawyer known for his influential contributions to early 20th-century Afrikaans literature.
  • B. Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr
    Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr was a prominent 19th-century South African politician and leader of the Afrikaner nationalist movement who played a key role in shaping Afrikaner political identity.
  • C. Franciscus Bernardus Maria de Waal
    Franciscus Bernardus Maria de Waal, better known as Frans de Waal, was a Dutch primatologist and ethologist renowned for his pioneering research on animal cognition, empathy, and the evolutionary roots of human morality.
  • D. Johannes Gerhardus Burgers
    Johannes Gerhardus Burgers was a Dutch physicist and mathematician renowned for his work in fluid dynamics and for formulating the Burgers equation, a fundamental partial differential equation in applied mathematics.
  • E. Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff
    Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff was a 19th-century South African politician who served as the second State President of the Orange Free State.
  • 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_69e0b50d1ea481909c07e63c3ead9316 completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e7252dc3f0819094c6acf52a9f308d completed April 21, 2026, 7:20 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a096dcc21348190ab0c6078cc8640d1 completed May 17, 2026, 7:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a096ee0e74c81909f609a962cd21081 completed May 17, 2026, 7:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a096f5e96cc8190b3be5a773868bd32 completed May 17, 2026, 7:33 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:59 p.m.