Triple

T15898878
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Swellendam E385532 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Hendrik Swellengrebel
Hendrik Swellengrebel was an 18th-century Dutch colonial official who served as Governor of the Cape Colony under the Dutch East India Company.
E1215640 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: Hendrik Swellengrebel | Statement: [Swellendam, namedAfter, Hendrik Swellengrebel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hendrik Swellengrebel
Context triple: [Swellendam, namedAfter, Hendrik Swellengrebel]
  • A. Gerrit de Veer
    Gerrit de Veer was a Dutch sailor and diarist best known for his detailed eyewitness account of Willem Barentsz’s Arctic voyages and the overwintering on Nova Zembla in the late 16th century.
  • B. Reinier de Graaf
    Reinier de Graaf was a 17th-century Dutch physician and anatomist renowned for his pioneering research on the female reproductive system and the discovery of ovarian follicles (now called Graafian follicles).
  • C. Reinier de Graaf
    Reinier de Graaf is a Dutch architect and partner at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, known for his work on large-scale urban projects and his critical writings on contemporary architecture and urbanism.
  • D. Cornelius van Baerle
    Cornelius van Baerle is the fictional, tulip-obsessed main character of Alexandre Dumas’ historical novel "The Black Tulip," whose passion for cultivating a rare flower drives the story’s intrigue and drama.
  • E. Andries de Graeff
    Andries de Graeff was a prominent 17th-century Dutch regent and statesman from the influential De Graeff family of Amsterdam.
  • 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: Hendrik Swellengrebel
Triple: [Swellendam, namedAfter, Hendrik Swellengrebel]
Generated description
Hendrik Swellengrebel was an 18th-century Dutch colonial official who served as Governor of the Cape Colony under the Dutch East India Company.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hendrik Swellengrebel
Target entity description: Hendrik Swellengrebel was an 18th-century Dutch colonial official who served as Governor of the Cape Colony under the Dutch East India Company.
  • A. Gerrit de Veer
    Gerrit de Veer was a Dutch sailor and diarist best known for his detailed eyewitness account of Willem Barentsz’s Arctic voyages and the overwintering on Nova Zembla in the late 16th century.
  • B. Reinier de Graaf
    Reinier de Graaf was a 17th-century Dutch physician and anatomist renowned for his pioneering research on the female reproductive system and the discovery of ovarian follicles (now called Graafian follicles).
  • C. Reinier de Graaf
    Reinier de Graaf is a Dutch architect and partner at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, known for his work on large-scale urban projects and his critical writings on contemporary architecture and urbanism.
  • D. Cornelius van Baerle
    Cornelius van Baerle is the fictional, tulip-obsessed main character of Alexandre Dumas’ historical novel "The Black Tulip," whose passion for cultivating a rare flower drives the story’s intrigue and drama.
  • E. Andries de Graeff
    Andries de Graeff was a prominent 17th-century Dutch regent and statesman from the influential De Graeff family of Amsterdam.
  • 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_69d86da5b800819083a31be937d738b0 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e1563bd0688190b6f7a695be0a4625 completed April 16, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a004f372f7c8190ba04b8bd13bff95c completed May 10, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00525b579c81909df181059d0e3db8 completed May 10, 2026, 9:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0052ee614881908eb8f7c031ff8f7c completed May 10, 2026, 9:42 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:51 a.m.