Triple

T2420222
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lichtenburg, Transvaal E53400 entity
Predicate countryDuringTransvaalPeriod P878 FINISHED
Object South African Republic E118286 NE FINISHED

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: South African Republic | Statement: [Lichtenburg, Transvaal, countryDuringTransvaalPeriod, South African Republic]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: South African Republic
Context triple: [Lichtenburg, Transvaal, countryDuringTransvaalPeriod, South African Republic]
  • A. South African Republic chosen
    The South African Republic, also known as the Transvaal Republic, was an independent Boer-ruled state in southern Africa during the 19th century that later became part of modern South Africa.
  • B. Boer Republic of Natalia
    The Boer Republic of Natalia was a short-lived 19th-century Boer-ruled republic in southeastern Africa that existed before being incorporated into British-controlled Natal.
  • C. Dominion of South Africa
    The Dominion of South Africa was a self-governing British dominion (1910–1961) that participated in both World Wars and formed the historical predecessor to the modern Republic of South Africa.
  • D. Orange Free State
    The Orange Free State was a 19th-century independent Boer republic in southern Africa that later became a British colony following the Second Boer War.
  • E. Rhodesia
    Rhodesia was an unrecognized, white-minority-ruled state in southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979 in the territory of modern-day Zimbabwe.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: countryDuringTransvaalPeriod
Context triple: [Lichtenburg, Transvaal, countryDuringTransvaalPeriod, South African Republic]
  • A. populationGroupClassificationApartheid
    Indicates the classification of a population group under an apartheid system, specifying how people are segregated or categorized by law or policy.
  • B. countryAtTheTime chosen
    Indicates that an entity is associated with a specific country as it existed at a particular point in time.
  • C. capitalDuringBritishRule
    Indicates that a place served as the capital of a region or polity specifically during the period of British rule.
  • D. periodOfColonialRule
    Indicates the time span during which one political power exercised colonial control over another territory or people.
  • E. formerRegionBefore2016
    Indicates that an entity was recognized as a region prior to the year 2016 but no longer holds that regional status after 2016.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (4 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_69ab495c44d48190b7235b23719bc3f6 completed March 6, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc9f342e88190a430b02842ded418 completed March 7, 2026, 6:47 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b12de0989481909ce71f3fb739ac2a completed March 11, 2026, 8:54 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69abc5a889948190b77de4ef6ac815a8 completed March 7, 2026, 6:28 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:42 p.m.