Triple

T2549209
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Smithfield district, Orange Free State E57978 entity
Predicate sovereignStateDuringExistence P11777 FINISHED
Object Orange Free State E30172 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: Orange Free State | Statement: [Smithfield district, Orange Free State, sovereignStateDuringExistence, Orange Free State]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Orange Free State
Context triple: [Smithfield district, Orange Free State, sovereignStateDuringExistence, Orange Free State]
  • A. Orange Free State chosen
    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.
  • B. KwaZulu homeland
    KwaZulu homeland was a former apartheid-era Bantustan in South Africa designated for Zulu people before being reincorporated into the modern province of KwaZulu-Natal.
  • C. 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.
  • D. South African Republic
    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.
  • E. Thembuland
    Thembuland is a historical region in South Africa that served as the traditional homeland of the Thembu people, an Nguni-speaking group to which figures like Nelson Mandela belong.
  • 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: sovereignStateDuringExistence
Context triple: [Smithfield district, Orange Free State, sovereignStateDuringExistence, Orange Free State]
  • A. sovereignStateDuring chosen
    Indicates that one entity functioned as the sovereign state governing another entity during a specified time period.
  • B. sovereignState
    Indicates that an entity is recognized as an independent, self-governing state with ultimate authority over its territory and not subject to any higher political power.
  • C. denotesSovereignState
    Indicates that one entity designates or identifies another entity as a sovereign, independent state.
  • D. hasSovereignState
    Indicates that one entity is the sovereign state that has ultimate authority or jurisdiction over another entity.
  • E. countryAtTheTime
    Indicates that an entity is associated with a specific country as it existed at a particular point in time.
  • 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_69ab4a5212d88190b989ce129f2ad87f completed March 6, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd5a33234819082ad49fa6594b6be completed March 7, 2026, 7:37 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afaf3b61fc8190988484bedc5b57a0 completed March 10, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69abd0c8b6f08190a68645db3e8b779a completed March 7, 2026, 7:16 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.