Triple

T17605082
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Muir E428808 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Cape Colony education department — NE NERFINISHED

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: Cape Colony education department | Statement: [Thomas Muir, employer, Cape Colony education department]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cape Colony education department
Context triple: [Thomas Muir, employer, Cape Colony education department]
  • A. Northern Cape Department of Education
    The Northern Cape Department of Education is the provincial government body responsible for overseeing public schooling and education policy in South Africa’s Northern Cape province.
  • B. Eastern Cape Department of Education
    The Eastern Cape Department of Education is the provincial government body responsible for overseeing and managing public education and schooling in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province.
  • C. Department of National Education of South Africa
    The Department of National Education of South Africa was the former national government body responsible for formulating and overseeing education policy and administration across the country.
  • D. Department of Bantu Education
    The Department of Bantu Education was the apartheid-era South African government body responsible for administering and enforcing racially segregated, inferior education for Black South Africans.
  • E. Gauteng Department of Education
    The Gauteng Department of Education is the provincial government body responsible for overseeing and managing public schooling and education services in South Africa’s Gauteng province.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cape Colony education department
Target entity description: The Cape Colony education department was the governmental body responsible for overseeing and administering public education in the Cape Colony during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. Northern Cape Department of Education
    The Northern Cape Department of Education is the provincial government body responsible for overseeing public schooling and education policy in South Africa’s Northern Cape province.
  • B. Eastern Cape Department of Education
    The Eastern Cape Department of Education is the provincial government body responsible for overseeing and managing public education and schooling in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province.
  • C. Department of National Education of South Africa
    The Department of National Education of South Africa was the former national government body responsible for formulating and overseeing education policy and administration across the country.
  • D. Department of Bantu Education
    The Department of Bantu Education was the apartheid-era South African government body responsible for administering and enforcing racially segregated, inferior education for Black South Africans.
  • E. Gauteng Department of Education
    The Gauteng Department of Education is the provincial government body responsible for overseeing and managing public schooling and education services in South Africa’s Gauteng province.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 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_69d889e1c6148190ba76241e74688f8b completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e46c4b4ee88190827ea28b99ca6f33 completed April 19, 2026, 5:46 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:51 a.m.