Triple
T2527351
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne |
E56067
|
entity |
| Predicate | officeEndTime |
P214
|
FINISHED |
| Object | High Commissioner for Southern Africa, 1910 |
E42596
|
NE FINISHED |
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: High Commissioner for Southern Africa, 1910 | Statement: [William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne, officeEndTime, High Commissioner for Southern Africa, 1910]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: High Commissioner for Southern Africa, 1910 Context triple: [William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne, officeEndTime, High Commissioner for Southern Africa, 1910]
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A.
High Commissioner for Southern Africa
chosen
The High Commissioner for Southern Africa was a senior British colonial official responsible for overseeing and coordinating imperial administration and policy across territories in the southern African region.
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B.
Governor-General of the Union of South Africa
The Governor-General of the Union of South Africa was the British monarch’s representative and de facto head of state in South Africa from its formation in 1910 until it became a republic in 1961.
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C.
Vice President of the South African Republic
The Vice President of the South African Republic was a senior political office in the former Boer republic, serving as the second-highest executive authority after the State President.
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D.
Administrator of the Transvaal
The Administrator of the Transvaal was the British colonial official responsible for governing and overseeing the administration of the Transvaal territory following its annexation by the United Kingdom.
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E.
State President of the South African Republic
The State President of the South African Republic was the highest executive and political office of the independent Boer republic also known as the Transvaal, responsible for leading its government and representing it in domestic and international affairs.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ab4a48e4f081908f1218d244608659 |
completed | March 6, 2026, 9:42 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abd257ea908190a010c0b785853546 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 7:23 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69af2bb0658c8190b71e1352dc4f6be3 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 8:21 p.m. |
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:46 p.m.