Triple

T22254612
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Prince Dabulamanzi kaMpande E550065 entity
Predicate militaryConflict P12 FINISHED
Object Siege of Eshowe 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: Siege of Eshowe | Statement: [Prince Dabulamanzi kaMpande, militaryConflict, Siege of Eshowe]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Siege of Eshowe
Context triple: [Prince Dabulamanzi kaMpande, militaryConflict, Siege of Eshowe]
  • A. Siege of Pretoria
    The Siege of Pretoria was a key early engagement of the First Boer War in 1880–1881, during which Boer forces surrounded and blockaded the British-held town of Pretoria in the Transvaal.
  • B. Battle of Ladysmith
    The Battle of Ladysmith was an early engagement of the Second Boer War in 1899 in which British forces clashed with Boer commandos around the town of Ladysmith in Natal, South Africa.
  • C. Battle of Hlobane
    The Battle of Hlobane was a 1879 engagement during the Anglo-Zulu War in which Zulu forces inflicted a significant defeat on a British-led mounted column amid rugged mountainous terrain in Zululand.
  • D. Battle of Majuba Hill
    The Battle of Majuba Hill was a decisive 1881 engagement in which Boer forces inflicted a crushing defeat on the British, effectively ending the First Boer War and leading to restored self-government for the Transvaal.
  • E. siege of Bulawayo
    The siege of Bulawayo was a key 1896 confrontation in what is now Zimbabwe, where Ndebele forces surrounded the colonial town of Bulawayo during the Second Matabele War before being relieved by British-led columns.
  • 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: Siege of Eshowe
Target entity description: The Siege of Eshowe was a key engagement of the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879, during which British forces were besieged by Zulu warriors for several weeks at the mission station of Eshowe in present-day South Africa.
  • A. Siege of Pretoria
    The Siege of Pretoria was a key early engagement of the First Boer War in 1880–1881, during which Boer forces surrounded and blockaded the British-held town of Pretoria in the Transvaal.
  • B. Battle of Ladysmith
    The Battle of Ladysmith was an early engagement of the Second Boer War in 1899 in which British forces clashed with Boer commandos around the town of Ladysmith in Natal, South Africa.
  • C. Battle of Hlobane
    The Battle of Hlobane was a 1879 engagement during the Anglo-Zulu War in which Zulu forces inflicted a significant defeat on a British-led mounted column amid rugged mountainous terrain in Zululand.
  • D. Battle of Majuba Hill
    The Battle of Majuba Hill was a decisive 1881 engagement in which Boer forces inflicted a crushing defeat on the British, effectively ending the First Boer War and leading to restored self-government for the Transvaal.
  • E. siege of Bulawayo
    The siege of Bulawayo was a key 1896 confrontation in what is now Zimbabwe, where Ndebele forces surrounded the colonial town of Bulawayo during the Second Matabele War before being relieved by British-led columns.
  • 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_69e11e42adb8819087714772ea606709 completed April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f138c1d70881908df47b0f818c0022 completed April 28, 2026, 10:46 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:39 p.m.