Triple

T11680986
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject eastern frontier of the Cape Colony E277612 entity
Predicate conflict P12 FINISHED
Object Cape Frontier Wars E55477 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: Cape Frontier Wars | Statement: [eastern frontier of the Cape Colony, conflict, Cape Frontier Wars]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cape Frontier Wars
Context triple: [eastern frontier of the Cape Colony, conflict, Cape Frontier Wars]
  • A. Xhosa Wars chosen
    The Xhosa Wars were a series of 19th-century frontier conflicts in South Africa between the Xhosa peoples and European colonial powers, primarily the British, over land and political control in the Eastern Cape region.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Khoikhoi–Dutch conflicts at the Cape
    The Khoikhoi–Dutch conflicts at the Cape were a series of 17th- and 18th-century wars and skirmishes between Indigenous Khoikhoi pastoralists and Dutch colonists over land, cattle, and control of trade in the Cape region of southern Africa.
  • D. Boer–Zulu conflicts
    The Boer–Zulu conflicts were a series of 19th-century clashes in southern Africa between Boer settlers and the Zulu Kingdom over land, political control, and regional dominance.
  • E. Boer invasion of Cape Colony
    The Boer invasion of Cape Colony was an early Second Boer War campaign in which Boer forces crossed into British-controlled Cape territory, triggering key engagements and sieges such as those at Kimberley and Mafeking.
  • 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_69d6aafd0a448190b44da30af8c6c519 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a461b0908190bef4e1c6777affcf completed April 10, 2026, 7:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f1303147948190b8d3b72529d23842 completed April 28, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:40 p.m.