Triple
T22117044
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Taung Child |
E546570
|
entity |
| Predicate | discoverySite |
P1205
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Taung, South Africa |
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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: Taung, South Africa | Statement: [Taung Child, discoverySite, Taung, South Africa]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Taung, South Africa Context triple: [Taung Child, discoverySite, Taung, South Africa]
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A.
Taung, South Africa
chosen
Taung, South Africa is a notable paleoanthropological site where the famous Taung Child fossil of Australopithecus africanus was discovered.
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B.
Mbuzini, South Africa
Mbuzini, South Africa is a rural village near the border with Mozambique best known as the site of the 1986 plane crash that killed Mozambican president Samora Machel.
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C.
Pretoria Pit
Pretoria Pit was a coal mine in Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, best known as the site of one of Britain’s worst mining disasters in 1910.
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D.
Makapansgat, South Africa
Makapansgat, South Africa is a significant paleoanthropological site known for yielding important Australopithecus africanus fossils that have contributed to understanding early human evolution.
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E.
Thohoyandou
Thohoyandou is a town in South Africa’s Limpopo province that serves as an administrative, commercial, and educational hub for the surrounding region.
- 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_69e11e38b3848190ac3a4fa97d56e65a |
completed | April 16, 2026, 5:36 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f1294e85708190b455846bacbdfd03 |
completed | April 28, 2026, 9:40 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:31 p.m.