Triple
T17634717
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | South African Border War |
E430065
|
entity |
| Predicate | alsoKnownAs |
P39
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Namibian War |
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NE NERFINISHED |
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: Namibian War | Statement: [South African Border War, alsoKnownAs, Namibian War]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Namibian War Context triple: [South African Border War, alsoKnownAs, Namibian War]
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A.
South-West Africa Campaign
The South-West Africa Campaign was a World War I military operation in which South African forces invaded and defeated German colonial rule in present-day Namibia.
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B.
Basuto Wars
The Basuto Wars were a series of 19th-century conflicts in southern Africa between the Basotho people and neighboring Boer republics, primarily over land and political control.
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C.
German–Nama conflict
The German–Nama conflict was a late 19th- and early 20th-century colonial war in present-day Namibia between the German Empire and Nama groups, marked by guerrilla resistance and brutal repression that formed part of the wider Herero and Nama genocide.
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D.
South African Border War
chosen
The South African Border War was a protracted Cold War–era conflict (c. 1966–1989) in Namibia and Angola involving South Africa, liberation movements, and foreign allies such as Cuba, centered on decolonization, apartheid, and regional power struggles in southern Africa.
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E.
Rhodesian Bush War
The Rhodesian Bush War was a guerrilla conflict from the mid-1960s to 1979 between the white-minority government of Rhodesia and African nationalist insurgent groups, culminating in the creation of modern-day Zimbabwe.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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_69d889e37f308190a6aa0a69daff86c7 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e46ddfeb7c8190a369b438e43d47b4 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 5:53 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:52 a.m.