Triple

T433661
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bulawayo E9766 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Lobengula Khumalo
Lobengula Khumalo was the second and last king of the Ndebele (Matabele) Kingdom in what is now Zimbabwe, known for his resistance to British colonial encroachment in the late 19th century.
E56909 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: Lobengula Khumalo | Statement: [Bulawayo, foundedBy, Lobengula Khumalo]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lobengula Khumalo
Context triple: [Bulawayo, foundedBy, Lobengula Khumalo]
  • A. Thabo Makgoba
    Thabo Makgoba is the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and a prominent South African religious leader known for his role in church governance and social justice advocacy.
  • 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. Yusuf Dadoo
    Yusuf Dadoo was a prominent South African Indian anti-apartheid leader, physician, and communist activist who played a key role in uniting Indian and African resistance against racial segregation.
  • D. 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.
  • E. D. F. Malan
    D. F. Malan was a South African prime minister and National Party leader best known for formally instituting and entrenching the apartheid system.
  • 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: Lobengula Khumalo
Triple: [Bulawayo, foundedBy, Lobengula Khumalo]
Generated description
Lobengula Khumalo was the second and last king of the Ndebele (Matabele) Kingdom in what is now Zimbabwe, known for his resistance to British colonial encroachment in the late 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lobengula Khumalo
Target entity description: Lobengula Khumalo was the second and last king of the Ndebele (Matabele) Kingdom in what is now Zimbabwe, known for his resistance to British colonial encroachment in the late 19th century.
  • A. Thabo Makgoba
    Thabo Makgoba is the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and a prominent South African religious leader known for his role in church governance and social justice advocacy.
  • 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. Yusuf Dadoo
    Yusuf Dadoo was a prominent South African Indian anti-apartheid leader, physician, and communist activist who played a key role in uniting Indian and African resistance against racial segregation.
  • D. 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.
  • E. D. F. Malan
    D. F. Malan was a South African prime minister and National Party leader best known for formally instituting and entrenching the apartheid system.
  • 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_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_69a447fa97ac8190b8a19ded2d0f520e completed March 1, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a44b9ab54c8190a0f74337479b9d7b completed March 1, 2026, 2:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a44bf14ab88190bc8e699049fcdbc1 completed March 1, 2026, 2:23 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:11 p.m.