Triple

T22631878
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ngcobo, Cape Province, Union of South Africa E558573 entity
Predicate historicalEra P200 FINISHED
Object apartheid era South Africa 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: apartheid era South Africa | Statement: [Ngcobo, Cape Province, Union of South Africa, historicalEra, apartheid era South Africa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: apartheid era South Africa
Context triple: [Ngcobo, Cape Province, Union of South Africa, historicalEra, apartheid era South Africa]
  • A. Union era of South Africa
    The Union era of South Africa was the period from 1910 to 1961 when the country functioned as a self-governing dominion of the British Empire under a racially discriminatory political system that laid foundations for later apartheid.
  • B. apartheid government of South Africa chosen
    The apartheid government of South Africa was the white-minority regime that enforced a system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination from 1948 until the early 1990s.
  • C. Bantustan system
    The Bantustan system was a network of nominally self-governing, ethnically defined territories used by apartheid-era South Africa to segregate Black Africans and deny them full citizenship rights.
  • D. Afrikaner nationalism
    Afrikaner nationalism is a South African political ideology centered on promoting the cultural, political, and economic interests and identity of the Afrikaner (Dutch-descended) population, historically associated with apartheid-era policies and Afrikaner self-determination.
  • E. Bophuthatswana
    Bophuthatswana was a nominally independent Bantustan in northwestern South Africa, established under apartheid to segregate Tswana-speaking people and denied international recognition.
  • 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_69e245467d9881908d6985bd0db7a1f1 completed April 17, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f17009ecb0819082f94505b0e2c5b8 completed April 29, 2026, 2:42 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:02 p.m.