Triple
T5476978
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | State President of the South African Republic |
E123379
|
entity |
| Predicate | significantOfficeHolder |
P5750
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Marthinus Wessel Pretorius |
E42785
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Marthinus Wessel Pretorius | Statement: [State President of the South African Republic, significantOfficeHolder, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marthinus Wessel Pretorius Context triple: [State President of the South African Republic, significantOfficeHolder, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius]
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A.
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius
chosen
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius was a 19th-century Boer leader who served as the first president of the South African Republic and played a key role in early Afrikaner state formation.
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B.
Andries Hendrik Potgieter
Andries Hendrik Potgieter was a prominent Voortrekker leader and Boer pioneer who played a key role in establishing early Boer settlements in the interior of southern Africa during the 19th century.
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C.
Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff
Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff was a 19th-century South African politician who served as the second State President of the Orange Free State.
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D.
Quartus de Wet
Quartus de Wet was the South African judge who presided over the landmark Rivonia Trial that led to the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid leaders.
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E.
Daniel François Malan
Daniel François Malan was a South African politician and prime minister best known for leading the National Party government that formally instituted apartheid in 1948.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: significantOfficeHolder Context triple: [State President of the South African Republic, significantOfficeHolder, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius]
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A.
officeHolderOf
Indicates that a person holds or has held an official position or role within a specified organization, institution, or office.
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B.
notableFormerOfficeHolderRole
Indicates that an entity previously held a particular official position or role that is considered notable.
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C.
notableOfficeHolder
chosen
Indicates that an entity is a significant or distinguished holder of a particular office or position associated with another entity.
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D.
officeHolderMayBe
Indicates that a specified person is permitted or eligible to hold a particular office or position.
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E.
officeHolderUsually
Indicates that an entity is the person who typically or customarily holds a particular office or position.
- F. None of above.
Provenance (4 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_69bd4648883481909e9775d43300c5fa |
completed | March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd923639bc81909a83dd4fcaa8c636 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 6:30 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bf6c7a61848190970a4e34696791eb |
completed | March 22, 2026, 4:13 a.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69bd91a58c448190904964a439045e05 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 6:27 p.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:09 p.m.