Triple
T22139416
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Jobe kaKhayi |
E547117
|
entity |
| Predicate | ethnicity |
P194
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Mthethwa |
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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: Mthethwa | Statement: [Jobe kaKhayi, ethnicity, Mthethwa]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mthethwa Context triple: [Jobe kaKhayi, ethnicity, Mthethwa]
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A.
Thembu kingdom
The Thembu kingdom is a traditional Xhosa-speaking monarchy in South Africa, historically based in the Eastern Cape and known as the ancestral realm of prominent leaders including Nelson Mandela.
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B.
Makgoba
Makgoba is a South African surname most prominently associated with Thabo Makgoba, the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town.
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C.
Mthwakazi
Mthwakazi is a historic Ndebele kingdom in southwestern Zimbabwe, often associated with the precolonial state founded by King Mzilikazi in the 19th century.
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D.
Mthethwa Paramountcy
chosen
The Mthethwa Paramountcy was a powerful pre-Zulu confederation of Nguni chiefdoms in southeastern Africa that laid the political and military foundations for the rise of the Zulu Kingdom.
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E.
Ndebele Kingdom
The Ndebele Kingdom was a 19th-century southern African state founded by King Mzilikazi after breaking away from the Zulu Kingdom, centered in what is now western Zimbabwe.
- 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_69e11e3a95d88190a3bd80d9471976c3 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 5:36 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f129bc7ae881909798c64a4c19adad |
completed | April 28, 2026, 9:42 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:32 p.m.