Triple

T2467736
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Stellenbosch E55292 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Simon van der Stel
Simon van der Stel was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor of the Cape Colony and played a key role in developing its wine industry and inland settlements.
E270070 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: Simon van der Stel | Statement: [Stellenbosch, founder, Simon van der Stel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Simon van der Stel
Context triple: [Stellenbosch, founder, Simon van der Stel]
  • A. Jan van Riebeeck
    Jan van Riebeeck was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator who established the first permanent European settlement at the Cape of Good Hope, laying the foundations for later Afrikaner society in South Africa.
  • B. Marthinus Wessel Pretorius
    Marthinus Wessel Pretorius was a 19th-century Boer leader who served as the first president of the South African Republic and played a key role in early Afrikaner state formation.
  • C. Jozias van Aartsen
    Jozias van Aartsen is a Dutch politician who has held prominent national and local offices, including serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mayor of The Hague.
  • D. Andries Hendrik Potgieter
    Andries Hendrik Potgieter was a prominent Voortrekker leader and Boer pioneer who played a key role in establishing early Boer settlements in the interior of southern Africa during the 19th century.
  • E. Jan Pieterszoon Coen
    Jan Pieterszoon Coen was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator and merchant best known for founding Batavia (modern Jakarta) and ruthlessly consolidating Dutch power in the East Indies for the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
  • 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: Simon van der Stel
Triple: [Stellenbosch, founder, Simon van der Stel]
Generated description
Simon van der Stel was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor of the Cape Colony and played a key role in developing its wine industry and inland settlements.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Simon van der Stel
Target entity description: Simon van der Stel was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator who served as Governor of the Cape Colony and played a key role in developing its wine industry and inland settlements.
  • A. Jan van Riebeeck
    Jan van Riebeeck was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator who established the first permanent European settlement at the Cape of Good Hope, laying the foundations for later Afrikaner society in South Africa.
  • B. Marthinus Wessel Pretorius
    Marthinus Wessel Pretorius was a 19th-century Boer leader who served as the first president of the South African Republic and played a key role in early Afrikaner state formation.
  • C. Jozias van Aartsen
    Jozias van Aartsen is a Dutch politician who has held prominent national and local offices, including serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mayor of The Hague.
  • D. Andries Hendrik Potgieter
    Andries Hendrik Potgieter was a prominent Voortrekker leader and Boer pioneer who played a key role in establishing early Boer settlements in the interior of southern Africa during the 19th century.
  • E. Jan Pieterszoon Coen
    Jan Pieterszoon Coen was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator and merchant best known for founding Batavia (modern Jakarta) and ruthlessly consolidating Dutch power in the East Indies for the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
  • 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_69ab49e3622c8190ad22afa2c4fbb807 completed March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd13310a8819095fd70672f933aa3 completed March 7, 2026, 7:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af179f90e881909c09edb961b13a75 completed March 9, 2026, 6:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af195ec8788190ae2f94f7cd86e605 completed March 9, 2026, 7:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af1a28591c8190ab4f3dca260766f5 completed March 9, 2026, 7:06 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.