Triple

T11110150
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Victor Matfield E262732 entity
Predicate participantIn P149 FINISHED
Object British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa 2009
The British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa in 2009 was a high-profile rugby union series in which a combined team from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales played test matches and midweek games against South African national and provincial sides.
E905636 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: British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa 2009 | Statement: [Victor Matfield, participantIn, British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa 2009]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa 2009
Context triple: [Victor Matfield, participantIn, British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa 2009]
  • A. 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa
    The 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa was a high-profile rugby union series in which a combined team of players from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales faced the reigning world champion Springboks in a three-test contest under strict COVID-19 conditions.
  • B. 2005 British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand
    The 2005 British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand was a high-profile rugby union series in which the composite team of players from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales faced the New Zealand All Blacks in a much-scrutinized and ultimately disappointing campaign for the tourists.
  • C. 2017 British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand
    The 2017 British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand was a high-profile rugby union series in which the composite team of players from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales faced the reigning world champion All Blacks in a three-test series that ended in a historic 1–1 draw.
  • D. 1980 British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa
    The 1980 British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa was a high-profile rugby union series in apartheid-era South Africa, remembered for its political controversy and the Lions’ hard-fought but ultimately unsuccessful Test series against the Springboks.
  • E. British & Irish Lions
    The British & Irish Lions are a composite rugby union team selected from the best players of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland that tours the Southern Hemisphere’s top national sides.
  • 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: British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa 2009
Triple: [Victor Matfield, participantIn, British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa 2009]
Generated description
The British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa in 2009 was a high-profile rugby union series in which a combined team from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales played test matches and midweek games against South African national and provincial sides.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa 2009
Target entity description: The British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa in 2009 was a high-profile rugby union series in which a combined team from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales played test matches and midweek games against South African national and provincial sides.
  • A. 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa
    The 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa was a high-profile rugby union series in which a combined team of players from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales faced the reigning world champion Springboks in a three-test contest under strict COVID-19 conditions.
  • B. 2005 British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand
    The 2005 British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand was a high-profile rugby union series in which the composite team of players from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales faced the New Zealand All Blacks in a much-scrutinized and ultimately disappointing campaign for the tourists.
  • C. 2017 British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand
    The 2017 British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand was a high-profile rugby union series in which the composite team of players from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales faced the reigning world champion All Blacks in a three-test series that ended in a historic 1–1 draw.
  • D. 1980 British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa
    The 1980 British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa was a high-profile rugby union series in apartheid-era South Africa, remembered for its political controversy and the Lions’ hard-fought but ultimately unsuccessful Test series against the Springboks.
  • E. British & Irish Lions
    The British & Irish Lions are a composite rugby union team selected from the best players of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland that tours the Southern Hemisphere’s top national sides.
  • 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_69d6aa9b46cc8190b19f9f0cc45bf322 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d79a6964508190b679303d3b3a4fd6 completed April 9, 2026, 12:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e42d759bc88190b670c373f3647a41 completed April 19, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e4307baca48190bbf82f8235d7e2c7 completed April 19, 2026, 1:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e4375eaf448190a17f8df1e83145e0 completed April 19, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:27 p.m.