Triple
T1645627
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | South African general election, 1994 |
E35574
|
entity |
| Predicate | keyFigure |
P256
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FINISHED |
| Object | F. W. de Klerk |
E39205
|
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: F. W. de Klerk | Statement: [South African general election, 1994, keyFigure, F. W. de Klerk]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: F. W. de Klerk Context triple: [South African general election, 1994, keyFigure, F. W. de Klerk]
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A.
F. W. de Klerk
chosen
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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B.
P. W. Botha
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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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.
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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E.
D. F. Malan
D. F. Malan was a South African prime minister and National Party leader best known for formally instituting and entrenching the apartheid system.
- 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_69a88604618c81908b41f6429c431eb6 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a90a41e5a08190b97dd1c0b12c662a |
completed | March 5, 2026, 4:44 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ae02fd8f68819080a4b39ce3ad1198 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 11:15 p.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:28 p.m.