Triple
T465268
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Christiaan de Wet |
E8431
|
entity |
| Predicate | militaryBranch |
P253
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Orange Free State forces |
E44414
|
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: Orange Free State forces | Statement: [Christiaan de Wet, militaryBranch, Orange Free State forces]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Orange Free State forces Context triple: [Christiaan de Wet, militaryBranch, Orange Free State forces]
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A.
Boer forces
chosen
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.
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B.
Xhosa Wars
The Xhosa Wars were a series of 19th-century frontier conflicts in South Africa between the Xhosa peoples and European colonial powers, primarily the British, over land and political control in the Eastern Cape region.
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C.
South-West Africa Campaign
The South-West Africa Campaign was a World War I military operation in which South African forces invaded and defeated German colonial rule in present-day Namibia.
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D.
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.
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E.
Battle of Blood River
The Battle of Blood River was a decisive 1838 clash in which Voortrekker forces defeated the Zulu Kingdom in present-day South Africa, significantly shaping the region’s colonial and Afrikaner nationalist history.
- 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_69a2e7f3aeb48190a19453e3a043f486 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a2efd5b6b48190ae23968135cf6417 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:38 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a45297615881908011d248f1c8fd76 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 2:52 p.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.