Triple

T2379126
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject South Africa national rugby union team E46269 entity
Predicate notableCaptain P1918 FINISHED
Object John Smit
John Smit is a former South African rugby union hooker who captained the Springboks to victory in the 2007 Rugby World Cup and is regarded as one of the country's most successful leaders in the sport.
E260118 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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: John Smit | Statement: [South Africa national rugby union team, notableCaptain, John Smit]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Smit
Context triple: [South Africa national rugby union team, notableCaptain, John Smit]
  • A. Ben Viljoen
    Ben Viljoen was a prominent Boer general and political figure who played a key leadership role in the Second Boer War against the British.
  • B. Eric Cradock
    Eric Cradock was a Canadian sports promoter and businessman best known as a co-founder and early owner of the Toronto Huskies basketball team.
  • C. Hendrik Schoeman
    Hendrik Schoeman was a prominent South African politician and Boer leader who served as a government minister in the South African Republic during the late 19th century.
  • D. Koos de la Rey
    Koos de la Rey was a prominent Boer general and military leader renowned for his tactical skill and guerrilla warfare during the Anglo-Boer conflicts in South Africa.
  • E. Marthinus Theunis Steyn
    Marthinus Theunis Steyn was the last State President of the Orange Free State, known for leading the Boer republic during the Second Anglo-Boer War and later advocating for Afrikaner reconciliation and unity in South Africa.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: John Smit
Triple: [South Africa national rugby union team, notableCaptain, John Smit]
Generated description
John Smit is a former South African rugby union hooker who captained the Springboks to victory in the 2007 Rugby World Cup and is regarded as one of the country's most successful leaders in the sport.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Smit
Target entity description: John Smit is a former South African rugby union hooker who captained the Springboks to victory in the 2007 Rugby World Cup and is regarded as one of the country's most successful leaders in the sport.
  • A. Ben Viljoen
    Ben Viljoen was a prominent Boer general and political figure who played a key leadership role in the Second Boer War against the British.
  • B. Eric Cradock
    Eric Cradock was a Canadian sports promoter and businessman best known as a co-founder and early owner of the Toronto Huskies basketball team.
  • C. Hendrik Schoeman
    Hendrik Schoeman was a prominent South African politician and Boer leader who served as a government minister in the South African Republic during the late 19th century.
  • D. Koos de la Rey
    Koos de la Rey was a prominent Boer general and military leader renowned for his tactical skill and guerrilla warfare during the Anglo-Boer conflicts in South Africa.
  • E. Marthinus Theunis Steyn
    Marthinus Theunis Steyn was the last State President of the Orange Free State, known for leading the Boer republic during the Second Anglo-Boer War and later advocating for Afrikaner reconciliation and unity in South Africa.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69a88a1554a48190a0180682bcf099be completed March 4, 2026, 7:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc7974aa481908799ef2f854d1c9d completed March 7, 2026, 6:37 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aea8b23680819085e0c7da7b4da9e1 completed March 9, 2026, 11:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aea9a79c6081908706f9f1ca0d6c4d completed March 9, 2026, 11:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aeaa12f3d88190b2a1dcc48817bae7 completed March 9, 2026, 11:08 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:57 p.m.