Triple
T21665782
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Sekhukhune I |
E534711
|
entity |
| Predicate | conflict |
P12
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Sekhukhune Campaign of 1879 |
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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: Sekhukhune Campaign of 1879 | Statement: [Sekhukhune I, conflict, Sekhukhune Campaign of 1879]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sekhukhune Campaign of 1879 Context triple: [Sekhukhune I, conflict, Sekhukhune Campaign of 1879]
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A.
Siege of Ladysmith
The Siege of Ladysmith was a major engagement of the Second Boer War (1899–1902) in which British forces were encircled and besieged by Boer commandos in the town of Ladysmith in present-day South Africa.
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B.
Anglo-Zulu War
The Anglo-Zulu War was an 1879 conflict in southern Africa between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom, marked by famous battles such as Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift and resulting in the eventual defeat and dismantling of the Zulu state.
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C.
Second Matabele War
The Second Matabele War was an 1896–1897 uprising by the Ndebele (Matabele) people in what is now Zimbabwe against colonial rule, marking a major early resistance to British expansion in southern Africa.
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D.
Sekhukhune Wars
chosen
The Sekhukhune Wars were late 19th-century conflicts in the Transvaal region between the Pedi kingdom under King Sekhukhune I and Boer, and later British, colonial forces over control of territory and political authority.
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E.
Battle of Ladysmith
The Battle of Ladysmith was an early engagement of the Second Boer War in 1899 in which British forces clashed with Boer commandos around the town of Ladysmith in Natal, South Africa.
- 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_69e0c467e1f48190af2650b19175abc4 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ef6c0b26c8819092c13e59dcc3c25c |
completed | April 27, 2026, 2 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:36 p.m.