Triple
T84845
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Afrikaners |
E1706
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableCulturalFigure |
P4290
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
N. P. van Wyk Louw
N. P. van Wyk Louw was a prominent 20th-century Afrikaans poet, playwright, and essayist whose work profoundly shaped modern Afrikaans literature and intellectual life.
|
E9556
|
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: N. P. van Wyk Louw | Statement: [Afrikaners, notableCulturalFigure, N. P. van Wyk Louw]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: N. P. van Wyk Louw Context triple: [Afrikaners, notableCulturalFigure, N. P. van Wyk Louw]
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A.
Koos de la Rey
Koos de la Rey was a prominent Boer general and military leader renowned for his tactical skill and guerrilla warfare during the Anglo-Boer conflicts in South Africa.
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B.
Christiaan de Wet
Christiaan de Wet was a prominent Boer general and guerrilla leader renowned for his daring and highly effective campaigns against British forces during the Second Boer War.
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C.
Detlev W. Bronk
Detlev W. Bronk was an influential American scientist and educator known as a pioneer of biophysics and a prominent leader in national science policy.
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D.
Abraham Kuyper
Abraham Kuyper was a Dutch theologian, journalist, and statesman who founded the Anti-Revolutionary Party and served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands, becoming a leading architect of neo-Calvinist thought.
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E.
Michael Sperberg-McQueen
Michael Sperberg-McQueen is a prominent computer scientist and digital humanities scholar best known for his leadership in the development of XML and markup language standards.
- 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: N. P. van Wyk Louw Triple: [Afrikaners, notableCulturalFigure, N. P. van Wyk Louw]
Generated description
N. P. van Wyk Louw was a prominent 20th-century Afrikaans poet, playwright, and essayist whose work profoundly shaped modern Afrikaans literature and intellectual life.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: N. P. van Wyk Louw Target entity description: N. P. van Wyk Louw was a prominent 20th-century Afrikaans poet, playwright, and essayist whose work profoundly shaped modern Afrikaans literature and intellectual life.
-
A.
Koos de la Rey
Koos de la Rey was a prominent Boer general and military leader renowned for his tactical skill and guerrilla warfare during the Anglo-Boer conflicts in South Africa.
-
B.
Christiaan de Wet
Christiaan de Wet was a prominent Boer general and guerrilla leader renowned for his daring and highly effective campaigns against British forces during the Second Boer War.
-
C.
Detlev W. Bronk
Detlev W. Bronk was an influential American scientist and educator known as a pioneer of biophysics and a prominent leader in national science policy.
-
D.
Abraham Kuyper
Abraham Kuyper was a Dutch theologian, journalist, and statesman who founded the Anti-Revolutionary Party and served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands, becoming a leading architect of neo-Calvinist thought.
-
E.
Michael Sperberg-McQueen
Michael Sperberg-McQueen is a prominent computer scientist and digital humanities scholar best known for his leadership in the development of XML and markup language standards.
- 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_69a24c8150408190910a693eb51c1f71 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:01 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a2567dd770819088eb77ffc6d2d1cf |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:44 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a266ea53f48190a0a09700697ffd45 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 3:54 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a26ada5f908190afcc754be9fffd07 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 4:11 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a26b668a948190811c208dae793975 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 4:13 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:06 a.m.