Triple

T11609015
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Great Cattle Killing of 1856–1857 E275334 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object Xhosa Cattle-Killing of 1856–1857 E292519 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: Xhosa Cattle-Killing of 1856–1857 | Statement: [Great Cattle Killing of 1856–1857, alsoKnownAs, Xhosa Cattle-Killing of 1856–1857]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Xhosa Cattle-Killing of 1856–1857
Context triple: [Great Cattle Killing of 1856–1857, alsoKnownAs, Xhosa Cattle-Killing of 1856–1857]
  • A. Xhosa cattle-killing movement chosen
    The Xhosa cattle-killing movement was a mid-19th-century millenarian prophecy-led movement among the Xhosa that called for the mass slaughter of cattle and destruction of crops in the belief it would bring about the resurrection of ancestors and the expulsion of colonial settlers, ultimately resulting in a devastating famine.
  • B. Murder of Piet Retief
    The Murder of Piet Retief was a pivotal 1838 killing of the Voortrekker leader and his delegation by Zulu King Dingane, an event that dramatically escalated conflict during the Great Trek in South Africa.
  • C. The Killings at Badger's Drift
    The Killings at Badger's Drift is a British television crime drama episode that serves as the first case in the long-running Midsomer Murders series, introducing DCI Tom Barnaby and the sinister goings-on in the fictional English county of Midsomer.
  • D. Great Cattle Killing of 1856–1857
    The Great Cattle Killing of 1856–1857 was a millenarian movement among the Xhosa people in which they slaughtered their own cattle and destroyed crops in the belief it would bring about the resurrection of ancestors and the expulsion of colonial settlers, ultimately leading to a devastating famine.
  • E. The Assassination of Shaka
    The Assassination of Shaka is a renowned graphic art cycle by South African artist Cecil Skotnes that powerfully depicts the life and death of the Zulu king Shaka through carved and painted wooden panels.
  • 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_69d6aaf84b548190ac072e4fb89ae18f completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a04231d08190b8a07cd977d11ffa completed April 10, 2026, 7:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ef1330cfc0819086a07139b6c82c10 completed April 27, 2026, 7:41 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:38 p.m.