Triple

T5956927
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Walter Sisulu E132538 entity
Predicate placeOfBirth P1 FINISHED
Object Ngcobo, Cape Province, Union of South Africa
Ngcobo, located in the former Cape Province of the Union of South Africa, is a rural town in the Eastern Cape historically associated with anti-apartheid leader Walter Sisulu.
E558573 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: Ngcobo, Cape Province, Union of South Africa | Statement: [Walter Sisulu, placeOfBirth, Ngcobo, Cape Province, Union of South Africa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ngcobo, Cape Province, Union of South Africa
Context triple: [Walter Sisulu, placeOfBirth, Ngcobo, Cape Province, Union of South Africa]
  • A. Mbewuleni, Cape Province, Union of South Africa
    Mbewuleni, in the former Cape Province of the Union of South Africa, is a rural village best known as the birthplace of future South African president Thabo Mbeki.
  • B. Cape Provincial Council
    The Cape Provincial Council was the elected legislative body that governed South Africa’s former Cape Province under the country’s provincial system before its reorganization in 1994.
  • C. Lichtenburg, Transvaal
    Lichtenburg, Transvaal was a town in the former Transvaal province of South Africa, historically notable as a rural Boer settlement and later for its role in regional agriculture and diamond discoveries.
  • D. Stanger, Natal, South Africa
    Stanger, Natal, South Africa (now known as KwaDukuza) is a town on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast notable as a regional commercial center with historical significance in South African politics and Indian-South African heritage.
  • E. Natal, South Africa
    Natal, South Africa was a former British colony and later a province on the country’s eastern coast, centered around the port city of Durban and known for its diverse population and sugarcane agriculture.
  • 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: Ngcobo, Cape Province, Union of South Africa
Triple: [Walter Sisulu, placeOfBirth, Ngcobo, Cape Province, Union of South Africa]
Generated description
Ngcobo, located in the former Cape Province of the Union of South Africa, is a rural town in the Eastern Cape historically associated with anti-apartheid leader Walter Sisulu.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ngcobo, Cape Province, Union of South Africa
Target entity description: Ngcobo, located in the former Cape Province of the Union of South Africa, is a rural town in the Eastern Cape historically associated with anti-apartheid leader Walter Sisulu.
  • A. Mbewuleni, Cape Province, Union of South Africa
    Mbewuleni, in the former Cape Province of the Union of South Africa, is a rural village best known as the birthplace of future South African president Thabo Mbeki.
  • B. Cape Provincial Council
    The Cape Provincial Council was the elected legislative body that governed South Africa’s former Cape Province under the country’s provincial system before its reorganization in 1994.
  • C. Lichtenburg, Transvaal
    Lichtenburg, Transvaal was a town in the former Transvaal province of South Africa, historically notable as a rural Boer settlement and later for its role in regional agriculture and diamond discoveries.
  • D. Stanger, Natal, South Africa
    Stanger, Natal, South Africa (now known as KwaDukuza) is a town on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast notable as a regional commercial center with historical significance in South African politics and Indian-South African heritage.
  • E. Natal, South Africa
    Natal, South Africa was a former British colony and later a province on the country’s eastern coast, centered around the port city of Durban and known for its diverse population and sugarcane agriculture.
  • 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.