Triple
T21886722
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | State Secretary of the South African Republic |
E540423
|
entity |
| Predicate | positionHeldBy |
P8
|
FINISHED |
| Object | J. H. de Villiers |
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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: J. H. de Villiers | Statement: [State Secretary of the South African Republic, positionHeldBy, J. H. de Villiers]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. H. de Villiers Context triple: [State Secretary of the South African Republic, positionHeldBy, J. H. de Villiers]
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A.
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.
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B.
G. P. Jooste
G. P. Jooste was a South African diplomat who served as his country’s ambassador to the United States.
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C.
Hendrik Louw
Hendrik Louw is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Louw.
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D.
D. F. Malherbe
D. F. Malherbe was a prominent early 20th-century Afrikaans novelist and poet whose work helped shape the development of Afrikaans literature and influenced later writers such as C. M. van den Heever.
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E.
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.
- 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: J. H. de Villiers Target entity description: J. H. de Villiers was a South African statesman and jurist who played a significant role in the governance and legal administration of the South African Republic in the late 19th century.
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A.
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.
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B.
G. P. Jooste
G. P. Jooste was a South African diplomat who served as his country’s ambassador to the United States.
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C.
Hendrik Louw
Hendrik Louw is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Louw.
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D.
D. F. Malherbe
D. F. Malherbe was a prominent early 20th-century Afrikaans novelist and poet whose work helped shape the development of Afrikaans literature and influenced later writers such as C. M. van den Heever.
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E.
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.
- 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.