Triple
T433660
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Bulawayo |
E9766
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object | King Lobengula’s royal town Bulawayo |
E9766
|
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: King Lobengula’s royal town Bulawayo | Statement: [Bulawayo, namedAfter, King Lobengula’s royal town Bulawayo]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: King Lobengula’s royal town Bulawayo Context triple: [Bulawayo, namedAfter, King Lobengula’s royal town Bulawayo]
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A.
Bulawayo
chosen
Bulawayo is Zimbabwe’s second-largest city and a major industrial, cultural, and transport hub in the southwestern part of the country.
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B.
Great Zimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe is a medieval city in southeastern Zimbabwe renowned for its monumental stone structures and as the center of a powerful Shona-speaking kingdom that dominated regional trade between the 11th and 15th centuries.
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C.
Livingstone
Livingstone is a historic town in southern Zambia that serves as a major gateway for tourists visiting Victoria Falls and the surrounding Zambezi River region.
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D.
Chivhu, Zimbabwe
Chivhu, Zimbabwe is a small town in central Zimbabwe known as an agricultural center and one of the country’s oldest European-settled communities.
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E.
Lichtenburg, Transvaal
Lichtenburg, Transvaal was a town in the former Transvaal province of South Africa, historically notable as a rural Boer settlement and later for its role in regional agriculture and diamond discoveries.
- 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_69a2e801e1d48190b505d1dd336b52ac |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a2ef084840819080653004b674cba8 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:35 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a431e395208190ab4d4d1c10c117f7 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 12:32 p.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:11 p.m.