Triple
T2026300
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Boer forces |
E44414
|
entity |
| Predicate | engagement |
P1256
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Battle of Spion Kop |
E215256
|
NE FINISHED |
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: Battle of Spion Kop | Statement: [Boer forces, engagement, Battle of Spion Kop]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Spion Kop Context triple: [Boer forces, engagement, Battle of Spion Kop]
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A.
Battle of Spion Kop
chosen
The Battle of Spion Kop was a major and bloody engagement of the Second Boer War in January 1900, in which British forces suffered heavy casualties while attempting to relieve the besieged town of Ladysmith in South Africa.
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B.
Battle of Laing's Nek
The Battle of Laing's Nek was a key 1881 engagement in the First Boer War in which Boer forces successfully repelled a British attempt to break through a strategic mountain pass in the Transvaal.
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C.
Battle of Magersfontein
The Battle of Magersfontein was a major engagement of the Second Boer War in December 1899, where Boer forces decisively repelled a British advance toward Kimberley.
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D.
Battle of Rorke's Drift
The Battle of Rorke's Drift was an 1879 engagement in the Anglo-Zulu War in which a small British garrison famously defended a mission station against a much larger Zulu force.
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E.
Battle of Majuba Hill
The Battle of Majuba Hill was a decisive 1881 engagement in which Boer forces inflicted a crushing defeat on the British, effectively ending the First Boer War and leading to restored self-government for the Transvaal.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ae6ae88ad08190a0a638cad2566f2e |
completed | March 9, 2026, 6:38 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:38 p.m.