Triple

T334865
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Koos de la Rey E6702 entity
Predicate militaryBranch P253 FINISHED
Object Boer forces
Boer forces were the predominantly mounted, guerrilla-style republican commandos of the South African Boers that fought against the British Empire during the Anglo-Boer Wars.
E44414 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: Boer forces | Statement: [Koos de la Rey, militaryBranch, Boer forces]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Boer forces
Context triple: [Koos de la Rey, militaryBranch, Boer forces]
  • A. Armed Forces of South Africa
    The Armed Forces of South Africa are the unified military forces of the Republic of South Africa, responsible for the country’s defense, peacekeeping operations, and regional security engagements.
  • B. Boer Wars
    The Boer Wars were two late 19th- and early 20th-century conflicts in South Africa between the British Empire and the Boer republics, pivotal in shaping modern South African history and British imperial policy.
  • 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. 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.
  • E. Afrikaners
    Afrikaners are a South African ethnic group descended primarily from Dutch settlers, known for speaking Afrikaans and playing a central role in the country’s colonial and apartheid-era history.
  • 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: Boer forces
Triple: [Koos de la Rey, militaryBranch, Boer forces]
Generated description
Boer forces were the predominantly mounted, guerrilla-style republican commandos of the South African Boers that fought against the British Empire during the Anglo-Boer Wars.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Boer forces
Target entity description: Boer forces were the predominantly mounted, guerrilla-style republican commandos of the South African Boers that fought against the British Empire during the Anglo-Boer Wars.
  • A. Armed Forces of South Africa
    The Armed Forces of South Africa are the unified military forces of the Republic of South Africa, responsible for the country’s defense, peacekeeping operations, and regional security engagements.
  • B. Boer Wars
    The Boer Wars were two late 19th- and early 20th-century conflicts in South Africa between the British Empire and the Boer republics, pivotal in shaping modern South African history and British imperial policy.
  • 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. 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.
  • E. Afrikaners
    Afrikaners are a South African ethnic group descended primarily from Dutch settlers, known for speaking Afrikaans and playing a central role in the country’s colonial and apartheid-era history.
  • 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_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_69a3d7e6f9408190a4c17c25a57625cf completed March 1, 2026, 6:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3db973b7c819088fa25046ef67966 completed March 1, 2026, 6:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3dc9859308190ba69dc53b36cbe38 completed March 1, 2026, 6:28 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.