Triple

T6956308
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Redvers Buller E161250 entity
Predicate conflict P12 FINISHED
Object 9th Xhosa War E55477 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: 9th Xhosa War | Statement: [Redvers Buller, conflict, 9th Xhosa War]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 9th Xhosa War
Context triple: [Redvers Buller, conflict, 9th Xhosa War]
  • A. Xhosa Wars chosen
    The Xhosa Wars were a series of 19th-century frontier conflicts in South Africa between the Xhosa peoples and European colonial powers, primarily the British, over land and political control in the Eastern Cape region.
  • B. Basuto Wars
    The Basuto Wars were a series of 19th-century conflicts in southern Africa between the Basotho people and neighboring Boer republics, primarily over land and political control.
  • C. Anglo-Zulu War
    The Anglo-Zulu War was an 1879 conflict in southern Africa between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom, marked by famous battles such as Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift and resulting in the eventual defeat and dismantling of the Zulu state.
  • D. Second Matabele War
    The Second Matabele War was an 1896–1897 uprising by the Ndebele (Matabele) people in what is now Zimbabwe against colonial rule, marking a major early resistance to British expansion in southern Africa.
  • E. Boer–Zulu conflicts
    The Boer–Zulu conflicts were a series of 19th-century clashes in southern Africa between Boer settlers and the Zulu Kingdom over land, political control, and regional dominance.
  • 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_69c68852a9a0819097797e31d492e273 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6dacf8c8c8190a25dbacebeb4b66e completed March 27, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7618afb0c8190b1545328c1cee5de completed March 28, 2026, 5:05 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:29 p.m.