Triple
T11930314
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Vaal University of Technology |
E283893
|
entity |
| Predicate | regionServed |
P82
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Southern Gauteng |
E304564
|
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: Southern Gauteng | Statement: [Vaal University of Technology, regionServed, Southern Gauteng]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Southern Gauteng Context triple: [Vaal University of Technology, regionServed, Southern Gauteng]
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A.
southern Gauteng
chosen
Southern Gauteng is the lower part of South Africa’s Gauteng province, encompassing industrial and urban areas south of Johannesburg, including municipalities like Sedibeng.
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B.
Central Rand
Central Rand is a major section of South Africa’s Witwatersrand region, historically significant for its rich gold-bearing reefs and mining activity.
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C.
Greater Pretoria region
The Greater Pretoria region is a metropolitan area in northern Gauteng, South Africa, centered on the city of Pretoria and its surrounding urban and suburban communities.
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D.
KwaZulu-Natal Midlands
The KwaZulu-Natal Midlands is a scenic, rural region of South Africa known for its rolling green hills, arts-and-crafts routes, country guesthouses, and rich Zulu and colonial heritage.
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E.
East Rand
East Rand is an industrial and mining-intensive region to the east of Johannesburg in South Africa’s Gauteng province, known for its gold refineries and urban townships.
- 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_69d6ab2ce9c48190b5d39511b524f666 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d90303a9a88190a4044e6310ba9b4b |
completed | April 10, 2026, 2:02 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f4406ee910819093c72738bfe3f92c |
completed | May 1, 2026, 5:55 a.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:45 p.m.