Triple

T8962837
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sharlto Copley E214049 entity
Predicate playedCharacter P1507 FINISHED
Object Wikus van de Merwe
Wikus van de Merwe is the bumbling South African bureaucrat who becomes the reluctant, transforming protagonist at the center of the sci-fi film "District 9."
E769156 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: Wikus van de Merwe | Statement: [Sharlto Copley, playedCharacter, Wikus van de Merwe]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wikus van de Merwe
Context triple: [Sharlto Copley, playedCharacter, Wikus van de Merwe]
  • A. Andries Treurnicht
    Andries Treurnicht was a prominent South African politician and staunch defender of apartheid who led a right-wing breakaway from the ruling National Party.
  • B. Dirkie Uys
    Dirkie Uys was a young Voortrekker hero of South African history, remembered for his bravery and death alongside his father during conflicts with the Zulu in the 1830s.
  • C. Hendrik van der Bijl
    Hendrik van der Bijl was a prominent South African electrical engineer and industrialist who played a key role in developing the country’s power and steel industries.
  • D. Adriaan Louw
    Adriaan Louw is a South African-born physical therapist and pain scientist known for his work on pain neuroscience education and chronic pain management.
  • E. Dawid Stuurman
    Dawid Stuurman was a Khoi leader and resistance fighter in South Africa who opposed colonial rule in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • 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: Wikus van de Merwe
Triple: [Sharlto Copley, playedCharacter, Wikus van de Merwe]
Generated description
Wikus van de Merwe is the bumbling South African bureaucrat who becomes the reluctant, transforming protagonist at the center of the sci-fi film "District 9."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wikus van de Merwe
Target entity description: Wikus van de Merwe is the bumbling South African bureaucrat who becomes the reluctant, transforming protagonist at the center of the sci-fi film "District 9."
  • A. Andries Treurnicht
    Andries Treurnicht was a prominent South African politician and staunch defender of apartheid who led a right-wing breakaway from the ruling National Party.
  • B. Dirkie Uys
    Dirkie Uys was a young Voortrekker hero of South African history, remembered for his bravery and death alongside his father during conflicts with the Zulu in the 1830s.
  • C. Hendrik van der Bijl
    Hendrik van der Bijl was a prominent South African electrical engineer and industrialist who played a key role in developing the country’s power and steel industries.
  • D. Adriaan Louw
    Adriaan Louw is a South African-born physical therapist and pain scientist known for his work on pain neuroscience education and chronic pain management.
  • E. Dawid Stuurman
    Dawid Stuurman was a Khoi leader and resistance fighter in South Africa who opposed colonial rule in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • 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_69ca839cd6008190a1546a701a56710c completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc6749e5008190a01f42a2e772dd54 completed April 1, 2026, 12:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfc94e088881909506b229d1fff44a completed April 3, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfc9ef5e548190a134c2bf0aa380b5 completed April 3, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfca735c50819088c2805c62d96d62 completed April 3, 2026, 2:10 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:01 p.m.