Triple

T21886726
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject State Secretary of the South African Republic E540423 entity
Predicate positionHeldBy P8 FINISHED
Object J. H. 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: J. H. Smit | Statement: [State Secretary of the South African Republic, positionHeldBy, J. H. Smit]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: J. H. Smit
Context triple: [State Secretary of the South African Republic, positionHeldBy, J. H. Smit]
  • A. C. van der Leeuw
    C. van der Leeuw was a Dutch engineer and architect known for designing the Willemsbrug in Rotterdam.
  • B. H. A. Maaskant
    H. A. Maaskant was a prominent Dutch architect and structural engineer known for his large-scale postwar modernist designs.
  • C. Z.E. van Putten
    Z.E. van Putten is the designer of the official flag of the Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius.
  • D. Nicolaas Jacobus Smit
    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).
  • E. 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.
  • 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. Smit
Target entity description: J. H. Smit was a South African statesman who served as a senior government official in the late 19th-century South African Republic (Transvaal).
  • A. C. van der Leeuw
    C. van der Leeuw was a Dutch engineer and architect known for designing the Willemsbrug in Rotterdam.
  • B. H. A. Maaskant
    H. A. Maaskant was a prominent Dutch architect and structural engineer known for his large-scale postwar modernist designs.
  • C. Z.E. van Putten
    Z.E. van Putten is the designer of the official flag of the Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius.
  • D. Nicolaas Jacobus Smit chosen
    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).
  • E. 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.
  • F. None of above.

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.