Triple

T23091939
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Hlobane E575776 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Colonel Redvers Buller — 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: Colonel Redvers Buller | Statement: [Battle of Hlobane, commander, Colonel Redvers Buller]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Colonel Redvers Buller
Context triple: [Battle of Hlobane, commander, Colonel Redvers Buller]
  • A. Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley
    Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley was a British Army officer and colonial commander best known for his leadership and death during the First Boer War.
  • B. Lieutenant-General Sir Sidney Kirkman
    Lieutenant-General Sir Sidney Kirkman was a senior British Army officer best known for his corps-level command in key campaigns of the Second World War, particularly in North Africa and Italy.
  • C. Viscount Wolseley
    Viscount Wolseley was a prominent 19th-century British Army officer and military reformer renowned for his leadership in numerous imperial campaigns and for modernizing the British armed forces.
  • D. James Wentworth Buller
    James Wentworth Buller was a 19th-century British politician and landowner from Devon, known as the father of British Army general Sir Redvers Buller.
  • E. Lieutenant General Sir George Giffard
    Lieutenant General Sir George Giffard was a senior British Army officer who held high command roles during the Second World War, particularly in the Southeast Asian theatre.
  • 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: Colonel Redvers Buller
Target entity description: Colonel Redvers Buller was a British Army officer and Victoria Cross recipient best known for his leadership in colonial campaigns such as the Anglo-Zulu War and the Second Boer War.
  • A. Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley
    Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley was a British Army officer and colonial commander best known for his leadership and death during the First Boer War.
  • B. Lieutenant-General Sir Sidney Kirkman
    Lieutenant-General Sir Sidney Kirkman was a senior British Army officer best known for his corps-level command in key campaigns of the Second World War, particularly in North Africa and Italy.
  • C. Viscount Wolseley
    Viscount Wolseley was a prominent 19th-century British Army officer and military reformer renowned for his leadership in numerous imperial campaigns and for modernizing the British armed forces.
  • D. James Wentworth Buller
    James Wentworth Buller was a 19th-century British politician and landowner from Devon, known as the father of British Army general Sir Redvers Buller.
  • E. Lieutenant General Sir George Giffard
    Lieutenant General Sir George Giffard was a senior British Army officer who held high command roles during the Second World War, particularly in the Southeast Asian theatre.
  • 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_69e245bf3e3c819086d3448720efc01b completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18daa68d48190842e9cb6de31ea79 completed April 29, 2026, 4:48 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:57 p.m.