Triple

T15935880
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dutch Governor of Ceylon E386439 entity
Predicate officeHolder P537 FINISHED
Object Hendrik Bekker
Hendrik Bekker was a colonial administrator who served as a Dutch governor in Ceylon during the period of Dutch rule over the island.
E1184415 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 Bekker | Statement: [Dutch Governor of Ceylon, officeHolder, Hendrik Bekker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hendrik Bekker
Context triple: [Dutch Governor of Ceylon, officeHolder, Hendrik Bekker]
  • A. Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff
    Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff was a 19th-century South African politician who served as the second State President of the Orange Free State.
  • B. Beyers Naudé
    Beyers Naudé was a prominent South African Afrikaner cleric and anti-apartheid activist who became a leading ecumenical voice for justice and reconciliation.
  • C. Jozias van Aartsen
    Jozias van Aartsen is a Dutch politician who has held prominent national and local offices, including serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mayor of The Hague.
  • D. Andries Gerhardus Visser
    Andries Gerhardus Visser was a South African poet and lawyer known for his influential contributions to early 20th-century Afrikaans literature.
  • E. Piet Louw
    Piet Louw is a relatively obscure individual known primarily as a namesake bearer of the surname Louw, with little widely documented public information.
  • 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 Bekker
Triple: [Dutch Governor of Ceylon, officeHolder, Hendrik Bekker]
Generated description
Hendrik Bekker was a colonial administrator who served as a Dutch governor in Ceylon during the period of Dutch rule over the island.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hendrik Bekker
Target entity description: Hendrik Bekker was a colonial administrator who served as a Dutch governor in Ceylon during the period of Dutch rule over the island.
  • A. Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff
    Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff was a 19th-century South African politician who served as the second State President of the Orange Free State.
  • B. Beyers Naudé
    Beyers Naudé was a prominent South African Afrikaner cleric and anti-apartheid activist who became a leading ecumenical voice for justice and reconciliation.
  • C. Jozias van Aartsen
    Jozias van Aartsen is a Dutch politician who has held prominent national and local offices, including serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mayor of The Hague.
  • D. Andries Gerhardus Visser
    Andries Gerhardus Visser was a South African poet and lawyer known for his influential contributions to early 20th-century Afrikaans literature.
  • E. Piet Louw
    Piet Louw is a relatively obscure individual known primarily as a namesake bearer of the surname Louw, with little widely documented public information.
  • 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_69d86da750008190987eb26be3f6c118 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e156aa33948190b2d5936d2db0071d completed April 16, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffb5b8121881909b15bf6451d3d3a8 completed May 9, 2026, 10:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffb718d60481908ac0034ed8d8abc5 completed May 9, 2026, 10:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffb7c98cf8819097c7012040dbfe89 completed May 9, 2026, 10:40 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:53 a.m.