Triple

T2026218
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey E44413 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object de la Rey
De la Rey is a notable Afrikaans surname most famously associated with Boer general Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey, a key military leader during the Second Anglo-Boer War.
E226575 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: de la Rey | Statement: [Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey, familyName, de la Rey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: de la Rey
Context triple: [Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey, familyName, de la Rey]
  • A. Behati Prinsloo
    Behati Prinsloo is a Namibian model best known for her long-running work with Victoria’s Secret and for being one of the brand’s prominent Angels.
  • B. Maria Louw
    Maria Louw was the wife of D. F. Malan, the South African prime minister and key architect of apartheid-era policies.
  • C. Elize Botha
    Elize Botha was the wife of former South African State President P. W. Botha and served as the country’s First Lady during his tenure.
  • D. Ronnie Govender
    Ronnie Govender was a prominent South African playwright, author, and cultural activist whose work powerfully depicted and preserved the experiences of the Indian community in South Africa.
  • E. Jopie Fourie
    Jopie Fourie was a South African Boer rebel and national figure executed during World War I for leading an armed uprising against the Union government.
  • 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: de la Rey
Triple: [Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey, familyName, de la Rey]
Generated description
De la Rey is a notable Afrikaans surname most famously associated with Boer general Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey, a key military leader during the Second Anglo-Boer War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: de la Rey
Target entity description: De la Rey is a notable Afrikaans surname most famously associated with Boer general Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey, a key military leader during the Second Anglo-Boer War.
  • A. Behati Prinsloo
    Behati Prinsloo is a Namibian model best known for her long-running work with Victoria’s Secret and for being one of the brand’s prominent Angels.
  • B. Maria Louw
    Maria Louw was the wife of D. F. Malan, the South African prime minister and key architect of apartheid-era policies.
  • C. Elize Botha
    Elize Botha was the wife of former South African State President P. W. Botha and served as the country’s First Lady during his tenure.
  • D. Ronnie Govender
    Ronnie Govender was a prominent South African playwright, author, and cultural activist whose work powerfully depicted and preserved the experiences of the Indian community in South Africa.
  • E. Jopie Fourie
    Jopie Fourie was a South African Boer rebel and national figure executed during World War I for leading an armed uprising against the Union government.
  • 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_69a889144f2481909932f0746a93023d completed March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb91055d88190a980e7b42e5895d4 completed March 7, 2026, 5:35 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae0afc9e3c8190a045ef1c987c4141 completed March 8, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae0d524a048190ac290b0a9939d2bf completed March 8, 2026, 11:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae0dbf06008190b595de89f17c0104 completed March 9, 2026, 12:01 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:38 p.m.