Triple
T2392372
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Gaborone |
E48971
|
entity |
| Predicate | formerCapitalReplaced |
P30709
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Mafeking |
E106332
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Mafeking | Statement: [Gaborone, formerCapitalReplaced, Mafeking]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mafeking Context triple: [Gaborone, formerCapitalReplaced, Mafeking]
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A.
Graaff-Reinet
Graaff-Reinet is a historic town in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, known as one of the country’s oldest settlements and a center of early Afrikaner history.
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B.
Fort de Kock
Fort de Kock is a former Dutch colonial garrison town in West Sumatra, Indonesia, now known as Bukittinggi, noted for its historical hilltop fort and role in Minangkabau history.
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C.
Battle of Ladysmith
The Battle of Ladysmith was an early engagement of the Second Boer War in 1899 in which British forces clashed with Boer commandos around the town of Ladysmith in Natal, South Africa.
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D.
Siege of Mafeking
chosen
The Siege of Mafeking was a famous 217-day Boer War siege of a British-held town in South Africa whose relief became a major propaganda victory and symbol of British resilience.
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E.
Siege of Ladysmith
The Siege of Ladysmith was a major engagement of the Second Boer War (1899–1902) in which British forces were encircled and besieged by Boer commandos in the town of Ladysmith in present-day South Africa.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: formerCapitalReplaced Context triple: [Gaborone, formerCapitalReplaced, Mafeking]
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A.
formerCapitalOf
Indicates that a place once served as the capital of another entity (such as a country or region) but no longer holds that status.
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B.
succeededAsCapitalBy
chosen
Indicates that one capital city has been replaced by another as the official capital of a political entity.
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C.
wasDeFactoCapitalOf
Indicates that a place functioned in practice as the capital of a political entity, even if it was not officially designated as such.
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D.
servedAsNationalCapitalUntil
Indicates that a place functioned as the national capital of a country or state up to a specified end date, after which it no longer held that status.
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E.
modernSiteOfCapital
Indicates that the subject location is the present-day site where the capital of the object political entity is situated.
- F. None of above.
Provenance (4 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_69a88aa5f63081908d07fd302029fcbd |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abc87587708190a7f2bc473a898bc2 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 6:40 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69aeb3d7b4908190a87dd33316d2d725 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 11:49 a.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69abc5a1b5748190b4cd8989700f4dd2 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 6:28 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:57 p.m.