Triple

T5956925
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Walter Sisulu E132538 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Sisulu
Sisulu is a prominent South African surname most closely associated with anti-apartheid leader Walter Sisulu and his politically influential family.
 E558572 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: Sisulu | Statement: [Walter Sisulu, familyName, Sisulu]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sisulu
Context triple: [Walter Sisulu, familyName, Sisulu]
  • A. Zindziswa
    Zindziswa is the given first name of Zindzi Mandela, the South African diplomat, poet, and daughter of Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
  • B. Rokhele
    Rokhele is a central female character in Sholem Aleichem’s Yiddish novel "Stempenyu," portrayed as a young married woman whose emotional turmoil and attraction to the charismatic fiddler Stempenyu drive much of the story’s romantic and moral conflict.
  • C. Sissala
    Sissala are an ethnic group of northwestern Ghana, known for their distinct Gur language, agrarian lifestyle, and rich musical and oral traditions.
  • D. Nolani
    Nolani are the inhabitants or natives of the city of Nola in southern Italy.
  • E. Thamsanqa
    Thamsanqa is a given name of Southern African origin, notably used as the middle name of Trevor Thamsanqa Tutu, the son of Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
  • 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: Sisulu
Triple: [Walter Sisulu, familyName, Sisulu]
Generated description
Sisulu is a prominent South African surname most closely associated with anti-apartheid leader Walter Sisulu and his politically influential family.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sisulu
Target entity description: Sisulu is a prominent South African surname most closely associated with anti-apartheid leader Walter Sisulu and his politically influential family.
  • A. Zindziswa
    Zindziswa is the given first name of Zindzi Mandela, the South African diplomat, poet, and daughter of Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
  • B. Rokhele
    Rokhele is a central female character in Sholem Aleichem’s Yiddish novel "Stempenyu," portrayed as a young married woman whose emotional turmoil and attraction to the charismatic fiddler Stempenyu drive much of the story’s romantic and moral conflict.
  • C. Sissala
    Sissala are an ethnic group of northwestern Ghana, known for their distinct Gur language, agrarian lifestyle, and rich musical and oral traditions.
  • D. Nolani
    Nolani are the inhabitants or natives of the city of Nola in southern Italy.
  • E. Thamsanqa
    Thamsanqa is a given name of Southern African origin, notably used as the middle name of Trevor Thamsanqa Tutu, the son of Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
  • 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_69c0086b05cc8190a8f36a96927a525c completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c039c34ca881909a219eddf99348ab completed March 22, 2026, 6:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0e3dd99888190ac3eeef692a7d879 completed March 23, 2026, 6:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0ed9c53d4819082c661cdd2d26612 completed March 23, 2026, 7:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0ee2ffbc88190a256b5cb8a98f382 completed March 23, 2026, 7:39 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:02 p.m.