Triple
T22906669
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Eshowe |
E568464
|
entity |
| Predicate | historicalEvent |
P259
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Siege of Eshowe |
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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: Siege of Eshowe | Statement: [Eshowe, historicalEvent, Siege of Eshowe]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Siege of Eshowe Context triple: [Eshowe, historicalEvent, Siege of Eshowe]
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A.
Siege of Eshowe
chosen
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.
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B.
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.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- 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_69e2458cd9e48190943ad2e34485d939 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f1801a48948190b5f51f1d02351fc7 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 3:50 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:41 p.m.