Triple
T11274956
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | British forces in the Second Boer War |
E266909
|
entity |
| Predicate | belligerentIn |
P10155
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FINISHED |
| Object | Battle of Spion Kop |
E215256
|
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: Battle of Spion Kop | Statement: [British forces in the Second Boer War, belligerentIn, Battle of Spion Kop]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Spion Kop Context triple: [British forces in the Second Boer War, belligerentIn, Battle of Spion Kop]
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A.
Battle of Spion Kop
chosen
The Battle of Spion Kop was a major and bloody engagement of the Second Boer War in January 1900, in which British forces suffered heavy casualties while attempting to relieve the besieged town of Ladysmith in South Africa.
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B.
Battle of Paardeberg
The Battle of Paardeberg was a major engagement of the Second Boer War in February 1900, where British forces decisively defeated and captured a large Boer army under General Piet Cronjé in the Orange Free State.
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C.
Battle of Laing's Nek
The Battle of Laing's Nek was a key 1881 engagement in the First Boer War in which Boer forces successfully repelled a British attempt to break through a strategic mountain pass in the Transvaal.
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D.
Battle of Elandslaagte
The Battle of Elandslaagte was an early engagement of the Second Boer War in October 1899, in which British forces attacked and defeated a Boer commando near Ladysmith in Natal.
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E.
Battle of Colenso
The Battle of Colenso was a major early engagement of the Second Boer War in December 1899, in which British forces suffered a significant defeat while attempting to relieve the besieged town of Ladysmith in Natal, South Africa.
- 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_69d6aac8c2f48190ad0596f1f89f0470 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d7e966cb4c8190bc410d7e623e54db |
completed | April 9, 2026, 6:01 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69e5258cc5208190be268ac6a82c9419 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 6:57 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:31 p.m.