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 |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 (2 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. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:59 p.m.