Triple

T11399575
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Simon van der Stel E270070 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Willem Adriaan van der Stel
Willem Adriaan van der Stel was a Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor of the Cape Colony in the early 18th century and became notorious for abuses of power that led to his dismissal.
E925866 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: Willem Adriaan van der Stel | Statement: [Simon van der Stel, child, Willem Adriaan van der Stel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Willem Adriaan van der Stel
Context triple: [Simon van der Stel, child, Willem Adriaan van der Stel]
  • A. Adriaan van der Stel
    Adriaan van der Stel was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator best known for serving as governor of the Dutch settlement on Mauritius.
  • B. Simon van der Stel
    Simon van der Stel was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor of the Cape Colony and played a key role in developing its wine industry and inland settlements.
  • C. Jan van Riebeeck
    Jan van Riebeeck was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator who established the first permanent European settlement at the Cape of Good Hope, laying the foundations for later Afrikaner society in South Africa.
  • D. Marthinus Wessel Pretorius
    Marthinus Wessel Pretorius was a 19th-century Boer leader who served as the first president of the South African Republic and played a key role in early Afrikaner state formation.
  • E. Jozias van Aartsen
    Jozias van Aartsen is a Dutch politician who has held prominent national and local offices, including serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mayor of The Hague.
  • 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: Willem Adriaan van der Stel
Triple: [Simon van der Stel, child, Willem Adriaan van der Stel]
Generated description
Willem Adriaan van der Stel was a Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor of the Cape Colony in the early 18th century and became notorious for abuses of power that led to his dismissal.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Willem Adriaan van der Stel
Target entity description: Willem Adriaan van der Stel was a Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor of the Cape Colony in the early 18th century and became notorious for abuses of power that led to his dismissal.
  • A. Adriaan van der Stel
    Adriaan van der Stel was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator best known for serving as governor of the Dutch settlement on Mauritius.
  • B. Simon van der Stel
    Simon van der Stel was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor of the Cape Colony and played a key role in developing its wine industry and inland settlements.
  • C. Jan van Riebeeck
    Jan van Riebeeck was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator who established the first permanent European settlement at the Cape of Good Hope, laying the foundations for later Afrikaner society in South Africa.
  • D. Marthinus Wessel Pretorius
    Marthinus Wessel Pretorius was a 19th-century Boer leader who served as the first president of the South African Republic and played a key role in early Afrikaner state formation.
  • E. Jozias van Aartsen
    Jozias van Aartsen is a Dutch politician who has held prominent national and local offices, including serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mayor of The Hague.
  • 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_69d6aacdbc6c8190af6dc3d5f5d22836 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8001adc188190ae45227856156412 completed April 9, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e5d3470e208190aef43936bac2e4e9 completed April 20, 2026, 7:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e5d659fd7c819090b168168e355cb8 completed April 20, 2026, 7:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e5d7f238cc8190a1c2dd26bdc5ff77 completed April 20, 2026, 7:38 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:34 p.m.