Triple

T4740736
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sir Evelyn Wood E105232 entity
Predicate commanded P2333 FINISHED
Object Flying Column at the Battle of Hlobane
The Flying Column at the Battle of Hlobane was a fast-moving British mounted force deployed during the Anglo-Zulu War to conduct a raid against Zulu strongholds in the Hlobane region.
E468164 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: Flying Column at the Battle of Hlobane | Statement: [Sir Evelyn Wood, commanded, Flying Column at the Battle of Hlobane]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Flying Column at the Battle of Hlobane
Context triple: [Sir Evelyn Wood, commanded, Flying Column at the Battle of Hlobane]
  • A. Siege of Pretoria
    The Siege of Pretoria was a key early engagement of the First Boer War in 1880–1881, during which Boer forces surrounded and blockaded the British-held town of Pretoria in the Transvaal.
  • B. Battle of Laing's Nek
    The Battle of Laing's Nek was a key 1881 engagement in the First Boer War in which Boer forces successfully repelled a British attempt to break through a strategic mountain pass in the Transvaal.
  • C. Battle of Bronkhorstspruit
    The Battle of Bronkhorstspruit was an 1880 engagement in the Transvaal where Boer forces ambushed and decisively defeated a British column early in the First Boer War.
  • D. Battle of Rorke's Drift
    The Battle of Rorke's Drift was an 1879 engagement in the Anglo-Zulu War in which a small British garrison famously defended a mission station against a much larger Zulu force.
  • E. Battle of Ladysmith
    The Battle of Ladysmith was an early engagement of the Second Boer War in 1899 in which British forces clashed with Boer commandos around the town of Ladysmith in Natal, South Africa.
  • 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: Flying Column at the Battle of Hlobane
Triple: [Sir Evelyn Wood, commanded, Flying Column at the Battle of Hlobane]
Generated description
The Flying Column at the Battle of Hlobane was a fast-moving British mounted force deployed during the Anglo-Zulu War to conduct a raid against Zulu strongholds in the Hlobane region.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Flying Column at the Battle of Hlobane
Target entity description: The Flying Column at the Battle of Hlobane was a fast-moving British mounted force deployed during the Anglo-Zulu War to conduct a raid against Zulu strongholds in the Hlobane region.
  • A. Siege of Pretoria
    The Siege of Pretoria was a key early engagement of the First Boer War in 1880–1881, during which Boer forces surrounded and blockaded the British-held town of Pretoria in the Transvaal.
  • B. Battle of Laing's Nek
    The Battle of Laing's Nek was a key 1881 engagement in the First Boer War in which Boer forces successfully repelled a British attempt to break through a strategic mountain pass in the Transvaal.
  • C. Battle of Bronkhorstspruit
    The Battle of Bronkhorstspruit was an 1880 engagement in the Transvaal where Boer forces ambushed and decisively defeated a British column early in the First Boer War.
  • D. Battle of Rorke's Drift
    The Battle of Rorke's Drift was an 1879 engagement in the Anglo-Zulu War in which a small British garrison famously defended a mission station against a much larger Zulu force.
  • E. Battle of Ladysmith
    The Battle of Ladysmith was an early engagement of the Second Boer War in 1899 in which British forces clashed with Boer commandos around the town of Ladysmith in Natal, South Africa.
  • 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_69bd43ef87a48190a5bc3600711aa032 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd64a5f3548190a6acf1dcfd64d11d completed March 20, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be3a211d2c8190a87ad81ef90dcf3b completed March 21, 2026, 6:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be3d05281481909a74ffb38fb5eb31 completed March 21, 2026, 6:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be3dc3ce048190a725ea4b8e8a1ad4 completed March 21, 2026, 6:42 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:19 p.m.