Triple

T334817
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Natal Colony E6701 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object Union of South Africa (after 1910, as Province of Natal) E3669 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: Union of South Africa (after 1910, as Province of Natal) | Statement: [Natal Colony, partOf, Union of South Africa (after 1910, as Province of Natal)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Union of South Africa (after 1910, as Province of Natal)
Context triple: [Natal Colony, partOf, Union of South Africa (after 1910, as Province of Natal)]
  • A. Cape Colony
    Cape Colony was a former European settlement and strategic refreshment station at the southern tip of Africa that developed into a key hub of trade, migration, and colonial expansion.
  • B. Transvaal
    Transvaal was a former Boer republic and later British colony in what is now northeastern South Africa, central to the conflicts and politics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Orange Free State
    The Orange Free State was a 19th-century independent Boer republic in southern Africa that later became a British colony following the Second Boer War.
  • D. KwaZulu-Natal
    KwaZulu-Natal is a coastal province in eastern South Africa known for its Zulu cultural heritage, major cities like Durban and Pietermaritzburg, and diverse landscapes ranging from beaches to the Drakensberg mountains.
  • E. South Africa chosen
    South Africa is a country at the southern tip of the African continent, known for its cultural and linguistic diversity, complex history of apartheid and democratic transition, and significant economic and political influence in the region.
  • 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_69a2e79434908190a9d5afe415153ad9 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2eac641708190b85fa21368e5de8e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3d247650481909006cc27bfa385e3 completed March 1, 2026, 5:44 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.