Triple

T12841061
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Christiaan Barnard E307051 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Aletta Gertruida Louw
Aletta Gertruida Louw was the first wife of pioneering South African heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard.
E1003628 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: Aletta Gertruida Louw | Statement: [Christiaan Barnard, spouse, Aletta Gertruida Louw]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aletta Gertruida Louw
Context triple: [Christiaan Barnard, spouse, Aletta Gertruida Louw]
  • A. Greta G. Louw
    Greta G. Louw is a German-South African artist and curator known for her work exploring digital culture, online behavior, and the psychological impact of internet technologies.
  • B. Maria Susanna van der Merwe
    Maria Susanna van der Merwe was the wife of Voortrekker leader Andries Hendrik Potgieter, associated with the early Afrikaner pioneer community in 19th-century South Africa.
  • C. Elna Botha
    Elna Botha is a South African figure known primarily as the wife of prominent anti-apartheid activist and cleric Allan Boesak.
  • D. Hannie Neethling
    Hannie Neethling was the wife of famed Boer War scout and military leader Danie Theron, remembered primarily in relation to his life and legacy.
  • E. Betsie Verwoerd
    Betsie Verwoerd was the wife of South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd and served as a prominent public figure during the apartheid era.
  • 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: Aletta Gertruida Louw
Triple: [Christiaan Barnard, spouse, Aletta Gertruida Louw]
Generated description
Aletta Gertruida Louw was the first wife of pioneering South African heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aletta Gertruida Louw
Target entity description: Aletta Gertruida Louw was the first wife of pioneering South African heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard.
  • A. Greta G. Louw
    Greta G. Louw is a German-South African artist and curator known for her work exploring digital culture, online behavior, and the psychological impact of internet technologies.
  • B. Maria Susanna van der Merwe
    Maria Susanna van der Merwe was the wife of Voortrekker leader Andries Hendrik Potgieter, associated with the early Afrikaner pioneer community in 19th-century South Africa.
  • C. Elna Botha
    Elna Botha is a South African figure known primarily as the wife of prominent anti-apartheid activist and cleric Allan Boesak.
  • D. Hannie Neethling
    Hannie Neethling was the wife of famed Boer War scout and military leader Danie Theron, remembered primarily in relation to his life and legacy.
  • E. Betsie Verwoerd
    Betsie Verwoerd was the wife of South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd and served as a prominent public figure during the apartheid era.
  • 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_69d7bdf52b94819096d6f0ba4ab50a98 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96ff2ab60819085561a3120189985 completed April 10, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f68edeaa1881909e06600ef88727de completed May 2, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f68f8e29508190b9c5b5ed88631bf8 completed May 2, 2026, 11:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f69006c0288190a49ba8714cd19959 completed May 3, 2026, midnight
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:35 p.m.