Triple

T40009
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Second Boer War E790 entity
Predicate combatantCommander P1698 FINISHED
Object 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.
E8431 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: Christiaan de Wet | Statement: [Second Boer War, combatantCommander, Christiaan de Wet]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Christiaan de Wet
Context triple: [Second Boer War, combatantCommander, Christiaan de Wet]
  • A. Koos de la Rey
    Koos de la Rey was a prominent Boer general and military leader renowned for his tactical skill and guerrilla warfare during the Anglo-Boer conflicts in South Africa.
  • B. Louis Botha
    Louis Botha was a prominent Boer military leader who became the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa.
  • C. Paul Kruger
    Paul Kruger was a prominent Boer political and military leader who served as President of the South African Republic and became a central figure in resistance against British rule during the late 19th century.
  • D. Claude Auchinleck
    Claude Auchinleck was a senior British Army officer and field marshal best known for his leadership of Allied forces in the Middle East during the early stages of World War II.
  • E. Lord Roberts
    Lord Roberts was a prominent British field marshal who led imperial forces during key late-19th-century colonial campaigns, including in South Africa and India.
  • 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: Christiaan de Wet
Triple: [Second Boer War, combatantCommander, Christiaan de Wet]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Christiaan de Wet
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. Koos de la Rey
    Koos de la Rey was a prominent Boer general and military leader renowned for his tactical skill and guerrilla warfare during the Anglo-Boer conflicts in South Africa.
  • B. Louis Botha
    Louis Botha was a prominent Boer military leader who became the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa.
  • C. Paul Kruger
    Paul Kruger was a prominent Boer political and military leader who served as President of the South African Republic and became a central figure in resistance against British rule during the late 19th century.
  • D. Claude Auchinleck
    Claude Auchinleck was a senior British Army officer and field marshal best known for his leadership of Allied forces in the Middle East during the early stages of World War II.
  • E. Lord Roberts
    Lord Roberts was a prominent British field marshal who led imperial forces during key late-19th-century colonial campaigns, including in South Africa and India.
  • 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_69a247a8f6c08190bac804906d62ed5a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24ec1ef5481909daf99654dfa3f57 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2623b6bb881909bcafff1aeb536e4 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:34 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a263865a9c81909fc29ddebe967035 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2644c9b8c8190a0da41b3e1e1dd47 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:43 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:46 a.m.