Triple

T1075440
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pieter Willem Burger E23825 entity
Predicate precededBy P97 FINISHED
Object Thomas François Burgers
Thomas François Burgers was a 19th-century Dutch Reformed minister and politician who served as president of the South African Republic (Transvaal).
E127309 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: Thomas François Burgers | Statement: [Pieter Willem Burger, precededBy, Thomas François Burgers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas François Burgers
Context triple: [Pieter Willem Burger, precededBy, Thomas François Burgers]
  • A. Schalk Willem Burger
    Schalk Willem Burger was a South African military leader and politician who served as acting president of the South African Republic (Transvaal) during the latter part of the Second Boer War.
  • B. Hubert Bruls
    Hubert Bruls is a Dutch politician best known as the long-serving mayor of Nijmegen and a prominent figure in national public safety and crisis management.
  • C. Johannes van den Bosch
    Johannes van den Bosch was a 19th-century Dutch colonial administrator and military officer best known for his influential role in shaping economic and governance policies in the Dutch East Indies.
  • D. Pieter Willem Burger
    Pieter Willem Burger was a 19th-century South African politician who served as president of the South African Republic (Transvaal) immediately before Paul Kruger.
  • E. Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge
    Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge was a Dutch colonial administrator and politician who served as a prominent and controversial leader in the Netherlands’ overseas empire during the early 20th century.
  • 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: Thomas François Burgers
Triple: [Pieter Willem Burger, precededBy, Thomas François Burgers]
Generated description
Thomas François Burgers was a 19th-century Dutch Reformed minister and politician who served as president of the South African Republic (Transvaal).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas François Burgers
Target entity description: Thomas François Burgers was a 19th-century Dutch Reformed minister and politician who served as president of the South African Republic (Transvaal).
  • A. Schalk Willem Burger
    Schalk Willem Burger was a South African military leader and politician who served as acting president of the South African Republic (Transvaal) during the latter part of the Second Boer War.
  • B. Hubert Bruls
    Hubert Bruls is a Dutch politician best known as the long-serving mayor of Nijmegen and a prominent figure in national public safety and crisis management.
  • C. Johannes van den Bosch
    Johannes van den Bosch was a 19th-century Dutch colonial administrator and military officer best known for his influential role in shaping economic and governance policies in the Dutch East Indies.
  • D. Pieter Willem Burger
    Pieter Willem Burger was a 19th-century South African politician who served as president of the South African Republic (Transvaal) immediately before Paul Kruger.
  • E. Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge
    Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge was a Dutch colonial administrator and politician who served as a prominent and controversial leader in the Netherlands’ overseas empire during the early 20th century.
  • 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_69a493f1ddf48190a99d54b00e99f8ce completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b92e480c81909a848b48c196a293 completed March 1, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac4c2247888190a7ab75b447b4773f completed March 7, 2026, 4:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac4d8f37f48190ad8a762a6ee9e5e8 completed March 7, 2026, 4:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac4dea94e0819094d05e0b2c97b03e completed March 7, 2026, 4:10 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.