Triple
T8021597
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | apartheid government of South Africa |
E186752
|
entity |
| Predicate | significantLeader |
P1520
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Daniel François Malan |
E86220
|
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: Daniel François Malan | Statement: [apartheid government of South Africa, significantLeader, Daniel François Malan]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Daniel François Malan Context triple: [apartheid government of South Africa, significantLeader, Daniel François Malan]
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A.
Daniel François Malan
chosen
Daniel François Malan was a South African politician and prime minister best known for leading the National Party government that formally instituted apartheid in 1948.
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B.
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius was a 19th-century Boer leader who served as the first president of the South African Republic and played a key role in early Afrikaner state formation.
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C.
Pieter Willem Grobler
Pieter Willem Grobler was a South African military and political leader who served as Commandant-General of the South African Republic during the late 19th century.
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D.
Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff
Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff was a 19th-century South African politician who served as the second State President of the Orange Free State.
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E.
Andries Hendrik Potgieter
Andries Hendrik Potgieter was a prominent Voortrekker leader and Boer pioneer who played a key role in establishing early Boer settlements in the interior of southern Africa during the 19th century.
- 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_69ca82ac7fc081909b1398cf025423af |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cb3e8eab9c81908098e6b17957316c |
completed | March 31, 2026, 3:25 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ce8828faf48190927b2a6680f6b4d8 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 3:15 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:20 p.m.