Triple
T21886723
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | State Secretary of the South African Republic |
E540423
|
entity |
| Predicate | positionHeldBy |
P8
|
FINISHED |
| Object | J. H. Hofmeyr |
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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. H. Hofmeyr | Statement: [State Secretary of the South African Republic, positionHeldBy, J. H. Hofmeyr]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. H. Hofmeyr Context triple: [State Secretary of the South African Republic, positionHeldBy, J. H. Hofmeyr]
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A.
Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr
chosen
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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B.
J. H. Grobler
J. H. Grobler was a South African politician who served as a senior government official in the late 19th-century Boer republic known as the South African Republic (Transvaal).
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C.
J. G. Strydom
J. G. Strydom was a South African National Party politician who served as Prime Minister of South Africa from 1954 to 1958 and was a key architect of early apartheid policies.
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D.
Heinrich Louw
Heinrich Louw is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Louw.
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E.
Beyers Naudé
Beyers Naudé was a prominent South African Afrikaner cleric and anti-apartheid activist who became a leading ecumenical voice for justice and reconciliation.
- 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.