Triple

T276591
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pretoria E5262 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Marthinus Wessel Pretorius
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius was a 19th-century Boer leader who served as the first president of the South African Republic and played a key role in early Afrikaner state formation.
E42785 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: Marthinus Wessel Pretorius | Statement: [Pretoria, founder, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marthinus Wessel Pretorius
Context triple: [Pretoria, founder, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius]
  • A. Andries Hendrik Potgieter
    Andries Hendrik Potgieter was a prominent Voortrekker leader and Boer pioneer who played a key role in establishing early Boer settlements in the interior of southern Africa during the 19th century.
  • B. Christiaan de Wet
    Christiaan de Wet was a prominent Boer general and guerrilla leader renowned for his daring and highly effective campaigns against British forces during the Second Boer War.
  • C. Andries Pretorius
    Andries Pretorius was a prominent 19th-century Boer leader and military commander who played a key role in establishing Afrikaner republics in southern Africa.
  • D. Pieter Willem Burger
    Pieter Willem Burger was a 19th-century South African politician who served as president of the South African Republic (Transvaal) immediately before Paul Kruger.
  • E. Piet Retief
    Piet Retief was a prominent Voortrekker leader and pioneer of the Great Trek in 19th-century South Africa, known for his role in negotiating land with Zulu King Dingane and his subsequent massacre.
  • 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: Marthinus Wessel Pretorius
Triple: [Pretoria, founder, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius]
Generated description
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius was a 19th-century Boer leader who served as the first president of the South African Republic and played a key role in early Afrikaner state formation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marthinus Wessel Pretorius
Target entity description: Marthinus Wessel Pretorius was a 19th-century Boer leader who served as the first president of the South African Republic and played a key role in early Afrikaner state formation.
  • A. Andries Hendrik Potgieter
    Andries Hendrik Potgieter was a prominent Voortrekker leader and Boer pioneer who played a key role in establishing early Boer settlements in the interior of southern Africa during the 19th century.
  • B. Christiaan de Wet
    Christiaan de Wet was a prominent Boer general and guerrilla leader renowned for his daring and highly effective campaigns against British forces during the Second Boer War.
  • C. Andries Pretorius
    Andries Pretorius was a prominent 19th-century Boer leader and military commander who played a key role in establishing Afrikaner republics in southern Africa.
  • D. Pieter Willem Burger
    Pieter Willem Burger was a 19th-century South African politician who served as president of the South African Republic (Transvaal) immediately before Paul Kruger.
  • E. Piet Retief
    Piet Retief was a prominent Voortrekker leader and pioneer of the Great Trek in 19th-century South Africa, known for his role in negotiating land with Zulu King Dingane and his subsequent massacre.
  • 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_69a257e6c8788190987dfe705ca2912a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25ded68c88190b1fc595ce329aeb9 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3d23d72308190b35d2e6d745d6ee6 completed March 1, 2026, 5:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3d2c542548190a5e8b39df0dfb874 completed March 1, 2026, 5:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3d3b33c508190a45a3d9a35095674 completed March 1, 2026, 5:50 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:59 a.m.