Triple

T19022542
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Boer invasion of Cape Colony E465522 entity
Predicate opposingLeaderSide P113287 FINISHED
Object John French — 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: John French | Statement: [Boer invasion of Cape Colony, opposingLeaderSide, John French]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John French
Context triple: [Boer invasion of Cape Colony, opposingLeaderSide, John French]
  • A. John French
    John French was a British Army officer who served as the first Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force during the early years of World War I.
  • B. John French
    John French was an American businessman and member of a prominent family, known primarily as the father of philanthropist Mary French Rockefeller.
  • C. Louis Canning
    Louis Canning is a cunning, manipulative lawyer character on the television series "The Good Wife," portrayed by Michael J. Fox.
  • D. Thomas Barclay
    Thomas Barclay was a Scottish Presbyterian missionary and Bible translator who played a key role in the development and promotion of the Pe̍h-ōe-jī romanization system for Taiwanese Hokkien.
  • E. Fletcher Marron
    Fletcher Marron is the young son of superstar singer and actress Rachel Marron in the film "The Bodyguard."
  • 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: John French
Target entity description: John French was a British Army officer and cavalry commander best known for his leadership in the Second Boer War and as the first Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force in World War I.
  • A. John French chosen
    John French was a British Army officer who served as the first Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force during the early years of World War I.
  • B. John French
    John French was an American businessman and member of a prominent family, known primarily as the father of philanthropist Mary French Rockefeller.
  • C. Louis Canning
    Louis Canning is a cunning, manipulative lawyer character on the television series "The Good Wife," portrayed by Michael J. Fox.
  • D. Thomas Barclay
    Thomas Barclay was a Scottish Presbyterian missionary and Bible translator who played a key role in the development and promotion of the Pe̍h-ōe-jī romanization system for Taiwanese Hokkien.
  • E. Fletcher Marron
    Fletcher Marron is the young son of superstar singer and actress Rachel Marron in the film "The Bodyguard."
  • F. None of above.

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_69d8dd025c188190a1d81f5b4ec7e2c6 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5d6e0583c8190bdfbfe6d94681899 completed April 20, 2026, 7:33 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:02 p.m.