Triple

T1078971
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject President of South Africa E23902 entity
Predicate officeHoldersInclude P537 FINISHED
Object Jacob Zuma
Jacob Zuma is a South African politician and former anti-apartheid activist who served as the country’s president from 2009 to 2018 and was widely associated with corruption scandals and state capture allegations.
E127888 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: Jacob Zuma | Statement: [President of South Africa, officeHoldersInclude, Jacob Zuma]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jacob Zuma
Context triple: [President of South Africa, officeHoldersInclude, Jacob Zuma]
  • A. Kgalema Motlanthe
    Kgalema Motlanthe is a South African politician and former anti-apartheid activist who briefly served as the country's president from 2008 to 2009.
  • B. Thabo Mbeki
    Thabo Mbeki is a South African politician who served as the country’s second post-apartheid president, known for his role in economic reform and controversial stance on HIV/AIDS.
  • C. Thabo Makgoba
    Thabo Makgoba is the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and a prominent South African religious leader known for his role in church governance and social justice advocacy.
  • D. F. W. de Klerk
    F. W. de Klerk was the last apartheid-era president of South Africa, known for initiating the end of white minority rule and sharing the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela.
  • E. Njongonkulu Ndungane
    Njongonkulu Ndungane is a South African Anglican cleric who served as Archbishop of Cape Town and was a prominent anti-apartheid activist and church leader.
  • 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: Jacob Zuma
Triple: [President of South Africa, officeHoldersInclude, Jacob Zuma]
Generated description
Jacob Zuma is a South African politician and former anti-apartheid activist who served as the country’s president from 2009 to 2018 and was widely associated with corruption scandals and state capture allegations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jacob Zuma
Target entity description: Jacob Zuma is a South African politician and former anti-apartheid activist who served as the country’s president from 2009 to 2018 and was widely associated with corruption scandals and state capture allegations.
  • A. Kgalema Motlanthe
    Kgalema Motlanthe is a South African politician and former anti-apartheid activist who briefly served as the country's president from 2008 to 2009.
  • B. Thabo Mbeki
    Thabo Mbeki is a South African politician who served as the country’s second post-apartheid president, known for his role in economic reform and controversial stance on HIV/AIDS.
  • C. Thabo Makgoba
    Thabo Makgoba is the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and a prominent South African religious leader known for his role in church governance and social justice advocacy.
  • D. F. W. de Klerk
    F. W. de Klerk was the last apartheid-era president of South Africa, known for initiating the end of white minority rule and sharing the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela.
  • E. Njongonkulu Ndungane
    Njongonkulu Ndungane is a South African Anglican cleric who served as Archbishop of Cape Town and was a prominent anti-apartheid activist and church leader.
  • 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_69a4b943b41481909b24050ca7e78971 completed March 1, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac538a5d248190bb44c6b27d2c714c completed March 7, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac541f80208190bf23aad6a21515bd completed March 7, 2026, 4:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac548b363881908de3588d34c4960c completed March 7, 2026, 4:38 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.