Triple
T23346299
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | British Empire in South Africa |
E591873
|
entity |
| Predicate | significantEvent |
P259
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Xhosa Wars |
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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: Xhosa Wars | Statement: [British Empire in South Africa, significantEvent, Xhosa Wars]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Xhosa Wars Context triple: [British Empire in South Africa, significantEvent, Xhosa Wars]
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A.
Xhosa Wars
chosen
The Xhosa Wars were a series of 19th-century frontier conflicts in South Africa between the Xhosa peoples and European colonial powers, primarily the British, over land and political control in the Eastern Cape region.
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B.
Sekhukhune Wars
The Sekhukhune Wars were late 19th-century conflicts in the Transvaal region between the Pedi kingdom under King Sekhukhune I and Boer, and later British, colonial forces over control of territory and political authority.
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C.
Basuto Wars
The Basuto Wars were a series of 19th-century conflicts in southern Africa between the Basotho people and neighboring Boer republics, primarily over land and political control.
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D.
Boer–Zulu conflicts
The Boer–Zulu conflicts were a series of 19th-century clashes in southern Africa between Boer settlers and the Zulu Kingdom over land, political control, and regional dominance.
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E.
Ndwandwe–Zulu conflicts
The Ndwandwe–Zulu conflicts were early 19th-century wars in southeastern Africa that helped shape the rise of the Zulu Kingdom and triggered widespread upheavals and migrations across the region.
- 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_69e25d20e3d08190bcede87673cafb25 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 4:17 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f19837874481908f1a530261a34819 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 5:33 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:19 p.m.