Triple
T5771957
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | State President of South Africa |
E127349
|
entity |
| Predicate | officeHoldersIncluded |
P48460
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Pieter Willem Botha |
E38807
|
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: Pieter Willem Botha | Statement: [State President of South Africa, officeHoldersIncluded, Pieter Willem Botha]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pieter Willem Botha Context triple: [State President of South Africa, officeHoldersIncluded, Pieter Willem Botha]
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A.
P. W. Botha
chosen
P. W. Botha was a hardline apartheid-era South African leader who served as prime minister and later as the country’s first executive state president, overseeing intensified repression and limited reforms in the 1970s and 1980s.
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B.
Louis Botha
Louis Botha was a prominent Boer military leader who became the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa.
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C.
B. J. Vorster
B. J. Vorster was a South African politician who served as prime minister and later state president during the apartheid era, playing a central role in enforcing and defending the system of racial segregation.
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D.
Wilhelm Verwoerd
Wilhelm Verwoerd is a South African philosopher, former African National Congress member, and reconciliation advocate known for publicly confronting and repudiating the apartheid legacy of his grandfather, former Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd.
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E.
Jan de Klerk
Jan de Klerk was a South African National Party politician who served as a cabinet minister and President of the Senate, and was the father of future president F. W. de Klerk.
- 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_69c00834f6308190851b0abeddd8ed7e |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c0335f23c081909b35020801e3ef12 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 6:22 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c09809cfcc8190b4d55db4b74316c7 |
completed | March 23, 2026, 1:31 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:50 p.m.