Triple

T16828385
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Progressive Federal Party E409080 entity
Predicate notableLeader P304 FINISHED
Object Frederik van Zyl Slabbert
Frederik van Zyl Slabbert was a prominent South African politician, academic, and anti-apartheid reformist who led the parliamentary opposition before resigning to pursue broader democratic change.
E1237803 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: Frederik van Zyl Slabbert | Statement: [Progressive Federal Party, notableLeader, Frederik van Zyl Slabbert]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederik van Zyl Slabbert
Context triple: [Progressive Federal Party, notableLeader, Frederik van Zyl Slabbert]
  • A. Quartus de Wet
    Quartus de Wet was the South African judge who presided over the landmark Rivonia Trial that led to the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid leaders.
  • B. Frederik Johannes Willem Reitz
    Frederik Johannes Willem Reitz was a South African lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as State President of the Orange Free State and later as State Secretary of the South African Republic.
  • C. Adriaan Vorster
    Adriaan Vorster is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Vorster.
  • D. Roelf Meyer
    Roelf Meyer is a South African politician best known as a chief negotiator in the country’s transition from apartheid to democracy and for his role in drafting the post-apartheid constitution.
  • E. Jacobus van Zyl
    Jacobus van Zyl was the early explorer credited with first discovering and bringing to wider attention South Africa’s famous Cango Caves.
  • 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: Frederik van Zyl Slabbert
Triple: [Progressive Federal Party, notableLeader, Frederik van Zyl Slabbert]
Generated description
Frederik van Zyl Slabbert was a prominent South African politician, academic, and anti-apartheid reformist who led the parliamentary opposition before resigning to pursue broader democratic change.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederik van Zyl Slabbert
Target entity description: Frederik van Zyl Slabbert was a prominent South African politician, academic, and anti-apartheid reformist who led the parliamentary opposition before resigning to pursue broader democratic change.
  • A. Quartus de Wet
    Quartus de Wet was the South African judge who presided over the landmark Rivonia Trial that led to the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid leaders.
  • B. Frederik Johannes Willem Reitz
    Frederik Johannes Willem Reitz was a South African lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as State President of the Orange Free State and later as State Secretary of the South African Republic.
  • C. Adriaan Vorster
    Adriaan Vorster is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Vorster.
  • D. Roelf Meyer
    Roelf Meyer is a South African politician best known as a chief negotiator in the country’s transition from apartheid to democracy and for his role in drafting the post-apartheid constitution.
  • E. Jacobus van Zyl
    Jacobus van Zyl was the early explorer credited with first discovering and bringing to wider attention South Africa’s famous Cango Caves.
  • 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_69d88394566c8190b3dcbdc72935f7fa completed April 10, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3b3151350819097b1c375e6df8986 completed April 18, 2026, 4:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00c2a08ac8819098e7094ee5ce4ed5 completed May 10, 2026, 5:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00c355f4108190a4209599bf5f50da completed May 10, 2026, 5:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00c413314881909e308588af09ce2a completed May 10, 2026, 5:44 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:23 a.m.