Triple
T9509875
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Sir Theophilus Shepstone |
E229364
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Shepstone system of native administration
The Shepstone system of native administration was a 19th-century colonial governance model in southern Africa that sought to control African populations through indirect rule via traditional chiefs under British authority.
|
E803801
|
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: Shepstone system of native administration | Statement: [Sir Theophilus Shepstone, notableWork, Shepstone system of native administration]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shepstone system of native administration Context triple: [Sir Theophilus Shepstone, notableWork, Shepstone system of native administration]
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A.
Bantu Authorities Act
The Bantu Authorities Act was a cornerstone apartheid law in South Africa that entrenched racial segregation by creating separate tribal authorities and laying the groundwork for the Bantustan system.
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B.
Bantu Laws Amendment Acts
The Bantu Laws Amendment Acts were apartheid-era South African laws that tightened racial segregation and control over the movement and residence of Black Africans, particularly in urban areas.
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C.
Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act
The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act was an apartheid-era South African law that stripped Black South Africans of their national citizenship by assigning them to nominally independent ethnic "homelands" or Bantustans.
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D.
Great Māhele land division
The Great Māhele land division was an 1848 legal reform in the Hawaiian Kingdom that radically restructured traditional land tenure by privatizing and redistributing lands among the monarchy, chiefs, and commoners.
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E.
Transvaal Colony government
The Transvaal Colony government was the British colonial administration that governed the former South African Republic after the Second Boer War, prior to its incorporation into the Union of South Africa.
- 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: Shepstone system of native administration Triple: [Sir Theophilus Shepstone, notableWork, Shepstone system of native administration]
Generated description
The Shepstone system of native administration was a 19th-century colonial governance model in southern Africa that sought to control African populations through indirect rule via traditional chiefs under British authority.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shepstone system of native administration Target entity description: The Shepstone system of native administration was a 19th-century colonial governance model in southern Africa that sought to control African populations through indirect rule via traditional chiefs under British authority.
-
A.
Bantu Authorities Act
The Bantu Authorities Act was a cornerstone apartheid law in South Africa that entrenched racial segregation by creating separate tribal authorities and laying the groundwork for the Bantustan system.
-
B.
Bantu Laws Amendment Acts
The Bantu Laws Amendment Acts were apartheid-era South African laws that tightened racial segregation and control over the movement and residence of Black Africans, particularly in urban areas.
-
C.
Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act
The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act was an apartheid-era South African law that stripped Black South Africans of their national citizenship by assigning them to nominally independent ethnic "homelands" or Bantustans.
-
D.
Great Māhele land division
The Great Māhele land division was an 1848 legal reform in the Hawaiian Kingdom that radically restructured traditional land tenure by privatizing and redistributing lands among the monarchy, chiefs, and commoners.
-
E.
Transvaal Colony government
The Transvaal Colony government was the British colonial administration that governed the former South African Republic after the Second Boer War, prior to its incorporation into the Union of South Africa.
- 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_69ca847611c48190a28c028644198c75 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cd9857058881909e0a40e2024a7b4c |
completed | April 1, 2026, 10:12 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d13a31600c8190a4a7ecb5231caa36 |
completed | April 4, 2026, 4:20 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69d13be79b1c8190a9110312ae25cf32 |
completed | April 4, 2026, 4:27 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69d13ca165b88190b4d629df0e079b3b |
completed | April 4, 2026, 4:30 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:58 p.m.