Triple
T2518992
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Xhosa Wars |
E55477
|
entity |
| Predicate | alsoKnownAs |
P39
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Kaffir Wars |
E55477
|
NE FINISHED |
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: Kaffir Wars | Statement: [Xhosa Wars, alsoKnownAs, Kaffir Wars]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kaffir Wars Context triple: [Xhosa Wars, alsoKnownAs, Kaffir Wars]
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A.
Uys Krige
Uys Krige was a South African poet, writer, translator, and anti-apartheid activist known for his influential Afrikaans and English literary works.
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B.
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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C.
Africa’s World War
Africa’s World War is the common name for the Second Congo War, a devastating multi-nation conflict in Central Africa that became one of the deadliest wars since World War II.
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D.
War of the Camps
The War of the Camps was a series of brutal mid-1980s sieges and battles in Lebanon in which the Amal Movement and its allies fought Palestinian factions for control of refugee camps during the Lebanese Civil War.
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E.
Mfecane
Mfecane was a period of widespread warfare, migration, and social upheaval in early 19th-century southern Africa that reshaped the region’s political landscape.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ab49e4749c8190813311efd1630f1b |
completed | March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abd232ae188190b7b70806b466ee99 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 7:22 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69af2ba2adc081908a0c7ff24db89de6 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 8:20 p.m. |
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:46 p.m.