Triple
T21886718
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | State Secretary of the South African Republic |
E540423
|
entity |
| Predicate | positionHeldBy |
P8
|
FINISHED |
| Object | J. B. M. Hertzog |
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NE NERFINISHED |
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: J. B. M. Hertzog | Statement: [State Secretary of the South African Republic, positionHeldBy, J. B. M. Hertzog]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. B. M. Hertzog Context triple: [State Secretary of the South African Republic, positionHeldBy, J. B. M. Hertzog]
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A.
J. B. M. Hertzog
chosen
J. B. M. Hertzog was a prominent early 20th-century South African prime minister and nationalist politician who championed Afrikaner interests and greater autonomy from the British Empire.
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B.
J. G. Strijdom
J. G. Strijdom was a hardline Afrikaner nationalist who served as Prime Minister of South Africa in the 1950s and was a key architect of early apartheid policies.
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C.
J. H. H. de Waal Hertzog
J. H. H. de Waal Hertzog was a prominent South African figure in Afrikaans literature and culture, honored as the namesake of the prestigious Hertzog Prize for Drama.
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D.
Wilhelm Verwoerd
Wilhelm Verwoerd is a South African philosopher, former African National Congress member, and reconciliation advocate known for publicly confronting and repudiating the apartheid legacy of his grandfather, former Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd.
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E.
Louis Botha
Louis Botha was a prominent Boer military leader who became the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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_69e0c47a95908190ae3e19b716accb3d |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f118ed35948190bbffba2c40029eee |
completed | April 28, 2026, 8:30 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 7:05 p.m.