Triple
T21886727
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | State Secretary of the South African Republic |
E540423
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entity |
| Predicate | positionHeldBy |
P8
|
FINISHED |
| Object | J. H. van der Merwe |
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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. van der Merwe | Statement: [State Secretary of the South African Republic, positionHeldBy, J. H. van der Merwe]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. H. van der Merwe Context triple: [State Secretary of the South African Republic, positionHeldBy, J. H. van der Merwe]
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A.
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.
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B.
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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C.
J. H. de Villiers
J. H. de Villiers was a South African statesman and jurist who played a significant role in the governance and legal administration of the South African Republic in the late 19th century.
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D.
J. H. Potgieter
chosen
J. H. Potgieter was a South African political figure who served in the government of the South African Republic (Transvaal) during the era of Boer self-rule.
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E.
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.
- 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.