Triple
T9728156
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Battle of Ladysmith |
E235666
|
entity |
| Predicate | commander |
P1061
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Louis Botha |
E5302
|
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: Louis Botha | Statement: [Battle of Ladysmith, commander, Louis Botha]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Louis Botha Context triple: [Battle of Ladysmith, commander, Louis Botha]
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A.
Louis Botha
chosen
Louis Botha was a prominent Boer military leader who became the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa.
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B.
Marthinus Vorster
Marthinus Vorster is a notable individual who shares the surname Vorster, likely recognized within a specific professional, historical, or regional context.
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C.
Hendrik Verwoerd
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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D.
P. W. Botha
P. W. Botha was a hardline apartheid-era South African leader who served as prime minister and later as the country’s first executive state president, overseeing intensified repression and limited reforms in the 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
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.
- 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_69ca84d0fad481909cdd45aa77416c48 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cd9e7af544819090a8a1adec41943c |
completed | April 1, 2026, 10:38 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d19fb208a48190864f8f085da83db7 |
completed | April 4, 2026, 11:33 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:21 p.m.