Triple
T8004663
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | South African general election, 1987 |
E186334
|
entity |
| Predicate | headOfGovernmentDuringElection |
P307
|
FINISHED |
| Object | P. W. Botha |
E38807
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: P. W. Botha | Statement: [South African general election, 1987, headOfGovernmentDuringElection, P. W. Botha]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: P. W. Botha Context triple: [South African general election, 1987, headOfGovernmentDuringElection, P. W. 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.
Michel de Klerk
Michel de Klerk was a Dutch architect and designer renowned as a leading figure in early 20th-century expressionist architecture and social housing in the Netherlands.
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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.
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: headOfGovernmentDuringElection Context triple: [South African general election, 1987, headOfGovernmentDuringElection, P. W. Botha]
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A.
headOfGovernmentDuringCampaign
Indicates that an individual serves as the head of government for a given political entity during the period of an electoral campaign.
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B.
headOfGovernmentElection
Indicates the event or process in which a head of government is chosen or elected to office.
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C.
headOfGovernmentAtPassage
Indicates the person who was serving as head of government at the time a particular event, decision, or passage occurred.
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D.
headOfGovernmentForOffice
Indicates that a person serves as the head of government corresponding to a specific governmental office or position.
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E.
headOfGovernment
chosen
Indicates that one entity serves as the chief executive authority or leader of the government of another entity.
- F. None of above.
Provenance (4 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_69ca82aaaf24819084b94d18f699ba53 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cb3cf5fb588190ada4ec7d8087619c |
completed | March 31, 2026, 3:18 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cbe127afe0819092d5ad0c430fadc4 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 2:58 p.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69cb0483d3b48190b250c7603d747bca |
completed | March 30, 2026, 11:17 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:18 p.m.