Triple

T21886736
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject State Secretary of the South African Republic E540423 entity
Predicate positionHeldBy P8 FINISHED
Object J. H. L. van der Merwe — 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. L. van der Merwe | Statement: [State Secretary of the South African Republic, positionHeldBy, J. H. L. van der Merwe]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: J. H. L. van der Merwe
Context triple: [State Secretary of the South African Republic, positionHeldBy, J. H. L. van der Merwe]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • C. J. H. Potgieter
    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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. J. H. Grobler chosen
    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).
  • 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.