Triple
T1620520
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | South African general election, 1989 |
E35019
|
entity |
| Predicate | previousStatePresident |
P28791
|
FINISHED |
| Object | P. W. Botha |
E38807
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: P. W. Botha | Statement: [South African general election, 1989, previousStatePresident, P. W. Botha]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: P. W. Botha Context triple: [South African general election, 1989, previousStatePresident, P. W. Botha]
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A.
P. W. Botha
chosen
P. W. Botha was a hardline apartheid-era South African leader who served as prime minister and later as the country’s first executive state president, overseeing intensified repression and limited reforms in the 1970s and 1980s.
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B.
Louis Botha
Louis Botha was a prominent Boer military leader who became the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa.
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C.
B. J. Vorster
B. J. Vorster was a South African politician who served as prime minister and later state president during the apartheid era, playing a central role in enforcing and defending the system of racial segregation.
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D.
F. W. de Klerk
F. W. de Klerk was the last apartheid-era president of South Africa, known for initiating the end of white minority rule and sharing the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela.
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E.
Hendrik Verwoerd
Hendrik Verwoerd was the South African prime minister widely regarded as the chief architect of the apartheid system of racial segregation and white minority rule.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: previousStatePresident Context triple: [South African general election, 1989, previousStatePresident, P. W. Botha]
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A.
previousPresident
chosen
Indicates that one person held the office of president immediately before another person.
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B.
lastPresident
Indicates that one entity is the most recent individual to have held the office of president of the other entity.
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C.
presidentElect
Indicates that one entity has been elected to be president of another entity (such as a country or organization) but has not yet assumed the office.
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D.
precededAsVicePresidentBy
Indicates that one entity served as vice president immediately before another entity in a sequence of officeholders.
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E.
hasPresident
Indicates that an entity holds the position or role of president for another entity.
- F. None of above.
Provenance (4 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_69a886023194819080a3fccd6e325d0e |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aaf4a0ef748190ae52b9656474c0ef |
completed | March 6, 2026, 3:37 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69adeac40c608190800da8b029ef065a |
completed | March 8, 2026, 9:31 p.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69a907c731808190a1d998155041b3c1 |
completed | March 5, 2026, 4:34 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:28 p.m.