Triple

T21886708
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject State Secretary of the South African Republic E540423 entity
Predicate positionHeldBy P8 FINISHED
Object W. E. Bok
W. E. Bok was a late 19th-century South African civil servant who served as a senior government official in the South African Republic (Transvaal) during the Boer era.
E1506857 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: W. E. Bok | Statement: [State Secretary of the South African Republic, positionHeldBy, W. E. Bok]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W. E. Bok
Context triple: [State Secretary of the South African Republic, positionHeldBy, W. E. Bok]
  • A. W. S. Bodey
    W. S. Bodey was a 19th-century prospector whose discovery of gold in California led to the founding of the mining town later preserved as Bodie State Historic Park.
  • B. L. B. Fischer
    L. B. Fischer was a mid-20th-century American publishing house known for issuing politically and socially engaged works, including Ira Wolfert’s novel "Tucker’s People."
  • C. A. W. Hackel
    A. W. Hackel was an American film producer best known for low-budget Westerns and B-movies during the 1930s and 1940s.
  • D. E. B. Shelfer
    E. B. Shelfer was a local figure of sufficient prominence or influence to have the historic E. B. Shelfer House named in his honor.
  • E. Walter Buch
    Walter Buch was a high-ranking Nazi official who served as the chief judge of the Nazi Party’s Supreme Court and played a key role in enforcing party discipline.
  • 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: W. E. Bok
Triple: [State Secretary of the South African Republic, positionHeldBy, W. E. Bok]
Generated description
W. E. Bok was a late 19th-century South African civil servant who served as a senior government official in the South African Republic (Transvaal) during the Boer era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W. E. Bok
Target entity description: W. E. Bok was a late 19th-century South African civil servant who served as a senior government official in the South African Republic (Transvaal) during the Boer era.
  • A. W. S. Bodey
    W. S. Bodey was a 19th-century prospector whose discovery of gold in California led to the founding of the mining town later preserved as Bodie State Historic Park.
  • B. L. B. Fischer
    L. B. Fischer was a mid-20th-century American publishing house known for issuing politically and socially engaged works, including Ira Wolfert’s novel "Tucker’s People."
  • C. A. W. Hackel
    A. W. Hackel was an American film producer best known for low-budget Westerns and B-movies during the 1930s and 1940s.
  • D. E. B. Shelfer
    E. B. Shelfer was a local figure of sufficient prominence or influence to have the historic E. B. Shelfer House named in his honor.
  • E. Walter Buch
    Walter Buch was a high-ranking Nazi official who served as the chief judge of the Nazi Party’s Supreme Court and played a key role in enforcing party discipline.
  • 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_69e0c47a95908190ae3e19b716accb3d completed April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f118ed35948190bbffba2c40029eee completed April 28, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a52bb53a48190905241cbc7a06efb completed May 17, 2026, 11:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a5375251c8190bd56103ad7465378 completed May 17, 2026, 11:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a54a231ec8190921160d7a1156aa5 completed May 17, 2026, 11:52 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 7:05 p.m.