Triple

T11680993
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject eastern frontier of the Cape Colony E277612 entity
Predicate significantEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Fourth Frontier War
The Fourth Frontier War was an 1811–1812 conflict between the British Cape Colony and the Xhosa peoples along the eastern frontier, marked by British efforts to expel Xhosa communities from the Zuurveld region.
E948732 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: Fourth Frontier War | Statement: [eastern frontier of the Cape Colony, significantEvent, Fourth Frontier War]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fourth Frontier War
Context triple: [eastern frontier of the Cape Colony, significantEvent, Fourth Frontier War]
  • A. Third Frontier War
    The Third Frontier War was an early 19th-century conflict between British colonial forces and Xhosa groups in southern Africa, forming part of the protracted Cape Frontier Wars over land and power.
  • B. Seventh Frontier War
    The Seventh Frontier War was a mid-19th-century conflict between the Xhosa peoples and British colonial forces in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, forming part of the protracted Xhosa Wars over land and sovereignty.
  • C. Fifth Frontier War
    The Fifth Frontier War is a major interstellar conflict in the Traveller role-playing game universe, forming one of the central large-scale wars in the setting’s history.
  • D. Sixth Frontier War
    The Sixth Frontier War was a mid-19th-century conflict between the Xhosa peoples and British colonial forces on South Africa’s eastern frontier, marking a major phase in the protracted Xhosa Wars over land and sovereignty.
  • E. Eighth Frontier War
    The Eighth Frontier War was a major mid-19th-century conflict between the Xhosa peoples and British colonial forces in South Africa, marking a critical phase in the protracted struggle over land and sovereignty on the eastern Cape frontier.
  • 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: Fourth Frontier War
Triple: [eastern frontier of the Cape Colony, significantEvent, Fourth Frontier War]
Generated description
The Fourth Frontier War was an 1811–1812 conflict between the British Cape Colony and the Xhosa peoples along the eastern frontier, marked by British efforts to expel Xhosa communities from the Zuurveld region.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fourth Frontier War
Target entity description: The Fourth Frontier War was an 1811–1812 conflict between the British Cape Colony and the Xhosa peoples along the eastern frontier, marked by British efforts to expel Xhosa communities from the Zuurveld region.
  • A. Third Frontier War
    The Third Frontier War was an early 19th-century conflict between British colonial forces and Xhosa groups in southern Africa, forming part of the protracted Cape Frontier Wars over land and power.
  • B. Seventh Frontier War
    The Seventh Frontier War was a mid-19th-century conflict between the Xhosa peoples and British colonial forces in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, forming part of the protracted Xhosa Wars over land and sovereignty.
  • C. Fifth Frontier War
    The Fifth Frontier War is a major interstellar conflict in the Traveller role-playing game universe, forming one of the central large-scale wars in the setting’s history.
  • D. Sixth Frontier War
    The Sixth Frontier War was a mid-19th-century conflict between the Xhosa peoples and British colonial forces on South Africa’s eastern frontier, marking a major phase in the protracted Xhosa Wars over land and sovereignty.
  • E. Eighth Frontier War
    The Eighth Frontier War was a major mid-19th-century conflict between the Xhosa peoples and British colonial forces in South Africa, marking a critical phase in the protracted struggle over land and sovereignty on the eastern Cape frontier.
  • 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_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.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f138b5f8988190a7ff95095eafd0b1 completed April 28, 2026, 10:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f14e9b30a88190a054961a2f7fc80d completed April 29, 2026, 12:19 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:40 p.m.