Triple

T2094812
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cecil E32754 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Cecil Skotnes
Cecil Skotnes was a prominent South African artist known for his innovative woodcut prints and contributions to modern African art.
E252003 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: Cecil Skotnes | Statement: [Cecil, hasNotableBearer, Cecil Skotnes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cecil Skotnes
Context triple: [Cecil, hasNotableBearer, Cecil Skotnes]
  • A. Ben Viljoen
    Ben Viljoen was a prominent Boer general and political figure who played a key leadership role in the Second Boer War against the British.
  • B. Moses Kotane
    Moses Kotane was a prominent South African anti-apartheid leader, long-time secretary-general of the South African Communist Party, and senior African National Congress figure.
  • C. J. G. Strydom
    J. G. Strydom was a South African National Party politician who served as Prime Minister of South Africa from 1954 to 1958 and was a key architect of early apartheid policies.
  • D. Frederik Johannes Willem Reitz
    Frederik Johannes Willem Reitz was a South African lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as State President of the Orange Free State and later as State Secretary of the South African Republic.
  • E. D. F. Malan
    D. F. Malan was a South African prime minister and National Party leader best known for formally instituting and entrenching the apartheid system.
  • 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: Cecil Skotnes
Triple: [Cecil, hasNotableBearer, Cecil Skotnes]
Generated description
Cecil Skotnes was a prominent South African artist known for his innovative woodcut prints and contributions to modern African art.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cecil Skotnes
Target entity description: Cecil Skotnes was a prominent South African artist known for his innovative woodcut prints and contributions to modern African art.
  • A. Ben Viljoen
    Ben Viljoen was a prominent Boer general and political figure who played a key leadership role in the Second Boer War against the British.
  • B. Moses Kotane
    Moses Kotane was a prominent South African anti-apartheid leader, long-time secretary-general of the South African Communist Party, and senior African National Congress figure.
  • C. J. G. Strydom
    J. G. Strydom was a South African National Party politician who served as Prime Minister of South Africa from 1954 to 1958 and was a key architect of early apartheid policies.
  • D. Frederik Johannes Willem Reitz
    Frederik Johannes Willem Reitz was a South African lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as State President of the Orange Free State and later as State Secretary of the South African Republic.
  • E. D. F. Malan
    D. F. Malan was a South African prime minister and National Party leader best known for formally instituting and entrenching the apartheid system.
  • 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_69a885eba0708190999696a45cbec816 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abba99ddc48190bb2097b56efb7aca completed March 7, 2026, 5:41 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae7eee9bd88190a46e34030939a568 completed March 9, 2026, 8:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae7f90d3a88190bf61c6f063b67c06 completed March 9, 2026, 8:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae800868948190a5504969c4cabb7d completed March 9, 2026, 8:08 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:43 p.m.