Triple
T5476989
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | State President of the South African Republic |
E123379
|
entity |
| Predicate | succeededBy |
P78
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Lieutenant-Governor of the Transvaal Colony |
E172223
|
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: Lieutenant-Governor of the Transvaal Colony | Statement: [State President of the South African Republic, succeededBy, Lieutenant-Governor of the Transvaal Colony]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lieutenant-Governor of the Transvaal Colony Context triple: [State President of the South African Republic, succeededBy, Lieutenant-Governor of the Transvaal Colony]
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A.
Administrator of the Transvaal
chosen
The Administrator of the Transvaal was the British colonial official responsible for governing and overseeing the administration of the Transvaal territory following its annexation by the United Kingdom.
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B.
President of the Orange Free State
The President of the Orange Free State was the head of state and government of the former independent Boer republic in southern Africa during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Vice President of the South African Republic
The Vice President of the South African Republic was a senior political office in the former Boer republic, serving as the second-highest executive authority after the State President.
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D.
Governor-General of the Union of South Africa
The Governor-General of the Union of South Africa was the British monarch’s representative and de facto head of state in South Africa from its formation in 1910 until it became a republic in 1961.
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E.
Commandant-General of the South African Republic
The Commandant-General of the South African Republic was the highest military commander of the Boer republic’s armed forces, responsible for leading its defense and military campaigns.
- 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_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_69bf489d7f94819095af2fe23a0b35b9 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 1:40 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:09 p.m.