Triple
T11331879
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Joshua Nkomo |
E268361
|
entity |
| Predicate | participantIn |
P149
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Rhodesian Bush War |
E283696
|
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: Rhodesian Bush War | Statement: [Joshua Nkomo, participantIn, Rhodesian Bush War]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rhodesian Bush War Context triple: [Joshua Nkomo, participantIn, Rhodesian Bush War]
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A.
Rhodesian Bush War
chosen
The Rhodesian Bush War was a guerrilla conflict from the mid-1960s to 1979 between the white-minority government of Rhodesia and African nationalist insurgent groups, culminating in the creation of modern-day Zimbabwe.
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B.
South African Border War
The South African Border War was a protracted Cold War–era conflict (c. 1966–1989) in Namibia and Angola involving South Africa, liberation movements, and foreign allies such as Cuba, centered on decolonization, apartheid, and regional power struggles in southern Africa.
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C.
Ugandan Bush War
The Ugandan Bush War was a protracted guerrilla conflict (1981–1986) that brought Yoweri Museveni’s National Resistance Army to power in Uganda and shaped the rise of several future regional leaders.
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D.
Uganda–Tanzania War
The Uganda–Tanzania War was a 1978–1979 conflict in which Tanzania overthrew Idi Amin’s Ugandan regime after Ugandan forces invaded Tanzanian territory.
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E.
Basuto Wars
The Basuto Wars were a series of 19th-century conflicts in southern Africa between the Basotho people and neighboring Boer republics, primarily over land and political control.
- 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_69d6aacb1f0881908c84a349fd1be047 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d7e9fd38308190a5458be1bfcc89ea |
completed | April 9, 2026, 6:03 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69e5263160548190adb7d5c0fd6af0e2 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 7 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:32 p.m.