Triple
T8189775
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Cabinet of the Union of South Africa |
E191273
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableHead |
P1918
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Hendrik Verwoerd |
E14302
|
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: Hendrik Verwoerd | Statement: [Cabinet of the Union of South Africa, notableHead, Hendrik Verwoerd]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hendrik Verwoerd Context triple: [Cabinet of the Union of South Africa, notableHead, Hendrik Verwoerd]
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A.
Hendrik Verwoerd
chosen
Hendrik Verwoerd was the South African prime minister widely regarded as the chief architect of the apartheid system of racial segregation and white minority rule.
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B.
Wilhelm Verwoerd
Wilhelm Verwoerd is a South African philosopher, former African National Congress member, and reconciliation advocate known for publicly confronting and repudiating the apartheid legacy of his grandfather, former Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
J. G. Strijdom
J. G. Strijdom was a hardline Afrikaner nationalist who served as Prime Minister of South Africa in the 1950s and was a key architect of early apartheid policies.
- 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_69ca82c5b6948190a583c096fb0a6c71 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cb4da0e1288190b9c7c1d3b9a98830 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 4:29 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cf5120159881908361bf9cb81e3932 |
completed | April 3, 2026, 5:33 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:41 p.m.