Triple

T2277901
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rivonia Trial E51214 entity
Predicate defendant P2238 FINISHED
Object Denis Goldberg
Denis Goldberg was a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the armed wing of the ANC who was sentenced to life imprisonment alongside Nelson Mandela in the Rivonia Trial.
E251025 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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: Denis Goldberg | Statement: [Rivonia Trial, defendant, Denis Goldberg]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Denis Goldberg
Context triple: [Rivonia Trial, defendant, Denis Goldberg]
  • A. Yusuf Dadoo
    Yusuf Dadoo was a prominent South African Indian anti-apartheid leader, physician, and communist activist who played a key role in uniting Indian and African resistance against racial segregation.
  • B. Ahmed Kathrada
    Ahmed Kathrada was a prominent South African anti-apartheid activist, close associate of Nelson Mandela, and long-serving political prisoner who later became a key figure in the post-apartheid government.
  • C. Moses Kotane
    Moses Kotane was a prominent South African anti-apartheid leader, long-time secretary-general of the South African Communist Party, and senior African National Congress figure.
  • D. Joe Slovo
    Joe Slovo was a prominent South African anti-apartheid activist, leader of the South African Communist Party, and key figure in the African National Congress’s armed struggle.
  • E. Walter Sisulu
    Walter Sisulu was a prominent South African anti-apartheid activist and African National Congress leader who played a key role in the struggle against white minority rule and was imprisoned for many years alongside Nelson Mandela.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Denis Goldberg
Triple: [Rivonia Trial, defendant, Denis Goldberg]
Generated description
Denis Goldberg was a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the armed wing of the ANC who was sentenced to life imprisonment alongside Nelson Mandela in the Rivonia Trial.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Denis Goldberg
Target entity description: Denis Goldberg was a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the armed wing of the ANC who was sentenced to life imprisonment alongside Nelson Mandela in the Rivonia Trial.
  • A. Yusuf Dadoo
    Yusuf Dadoo was a prominent South African Indian anti-apartheid leader, physician, and communist activist who played a key role in uniting Indian and African resistance against racial segregation.
  • B. Ahmed Kathrada
    Ahmed Kathrada was a prominent South African anti-apartheid activist, close associate of Nelson Mandela, and long-serving political prisoner who later became a key figure in the post-apartheid government.
  • C. Moses Kotane
    Moses Kotane was a prominent South African anti-apartheid leader, long-time secretary-general of the South African Communist Party, and senior African National Congress figure.
  • D. Joe Slovo
    Joe Slovo was a prominent South African anti-apartheid activist, leader of the South African Communist Party, and key figure in the African National Congress’s armed struggle.
  • E. Walter Sisulu
    Walter Sisulu was a prominent South African anti-apartheid activist and African National Congress leader who played a key role in the struggle against white minority rule and was imprisoned for many years alongside Nelson Mandela.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69a88b08e4308190bdac9aebcca1c91a completed March 4, 2026, 7:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc217b6648190be77d2176d322efd completed March 7, 2026, 6:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae71e2a17081908539717619ad7187 completed March 9, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae75ba1a988190ba59d3ce5e5c39a8 completed March 9, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae76246f6c81909a15262d2c4ea975 completed March 9, 2026, 7:26 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:48 p.m.