Triple

T21886712
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject State Secretary of the South African Republic E540423 entity
Predicate positionHeldBy P8 FINISHED
Object Nicolaas Jacobus Smit — 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: Nicolaas Jacobus Smit | Statement: [State Secretary of the South African Republic, positionHeldBy, Nicolaas Jacobus Smit]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nicolaas Jacobus Smit
Context triple: [State Secretary of the South African Republic, positionHeldBy, Nicolaas Jacobus Smit]
  • A. Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff
    Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff was a 19th-century South African politician who served as the second State President of the Orange Free State.
  • B. Pieter Willem Grobler
    Pieter Willem Grobler was a South African military and political leader who served as Commandant-General of the South African Republic during the late 19th century.
  • C. Hendrik Cornelis Wisse Smit
    Hendrik Cornelis Wisse Smit was the father of Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau and a Dutch banker who died in a mountaineering accident when she was young.
  • D. Hendrik Louw
    Hendrik Louw is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Louw.
  • E. Jozias van Aartsen
    Jozias van Aartsen is a Dutch politician who has held prominent national and local offices, including serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mayor of The Hague.
  • 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: Nicolaas Jacobus Smit
Target entity description: Nicolaas Jacobus Smit was a 19th-century South African politician and statesman who played a significant role in the governance of the South African Republic (Transvaal).
  • A. Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff
    Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff was a 19th-century South African politician who served as the second State President of the Orange Free State.
  • B. Pieter Willem Grobler
    Pieter Willem Grobler was a South African military and political leader who served as Commandant-General of the South African Republic during the late 19th century.
  • C. Hendrik Cornelis Wisse Smit
    Hendrik Cornelis Wisse Smit was the father of Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau and a Dutch banker who died in a mountaineering accident when she was young.
  • D. Hendrik Louw
    Hendrik Louw is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Louw.
  • E. Jozias van Aartsen
    Jozias van Aartsen is a Dutch politician who has held prominent national and local offices, including serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mayor of The Hague.
  • F. None of above. chosen

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_69e0c47a95908190ae3e19b716accb3d completed April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f118ed35948190bbffba2c40029eee completed April 28, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 7:05 p.m.