Triple
T263336
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | National Party (South Africa) |
E5799
|
entity |
| Predicate | statePresidentFrom |
P2526
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
B. J. Vorster
B. J. Vorster was a South African politician who served as prime minister and later state president during the apartheid era, playing a central role in enforcing and defending the system of racial segregation.
|
E38271
|
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: B. J. Vorster | Statement: [National Party (South Africa), statePresidentFrom, B. J. Vorster]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: B. J. Vorster Context triple: [National Party (South Africa), statePresidentFrom, B. J. Vorster]
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A.
Hendrik Verwoerd
Hendrik Verwoerd was the South African prime minister widely regarded as the chief architect of the apartheid system of racial segregation and white minority rule.
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B.
J. G. Strijdom
J. G. Strijdom was a hardline Afrikaner nationalist who served as Prime Minister of South Africa in the 1950s and was a key architect of early apartheid policies.
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C.
Louis Botha
Louis Botha was a prominent Boer military leader who became the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa.
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D.
D. F. Malan
D. F. Malan was a South African prime minister and National Party leader best known for formally instituting and entrenching the apartheid system.
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E.
J. B. M. Hertzog
J. B. M. Hertzog was a prominent early 20th-century South African prime minister and nationalist politician who championed Afrikaner interests and greater autonomy from the British Empire.
- 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: B. J. Vorster Triple: [National Party (South Africa), statePresidentFrom, B. J. Vorster]
Generated description
B. J. Vorster was a South African politician who served as prime minister and later state president during the apartheid era, playing a central role in enforcing and defending the system of racial segregation.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: B. J. Vorster Target entity description: B. J. Vorster was a South African politician who served as prime minister and later state president during the apartheid era, playing a central role in enforcing and defending the system of racial segregation.
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A.
Hendrik Verwoerd
Hendrik Verwoerd was the South African prime minister widely regarded as the chief architect of the apartheid system of racial segregation and white minority rule.
-
B.
J. G. Strijdom
J. G. Strijdom was a hardline Afrikaner nationalist who served as Prime Minister of South Africa in the 1950s and was a key architect of early apartheid policies.
-
C.
Louis Botha
Louis Botha was a prominent Boer military leader who became the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa.
-
D.
D. F. Malan
D. F. Malan was a South African prime minister and National Party leader best known for formally instituting and entrenching the apartheid system.
-
E.
J. B. M. Hertzog
J. B. M. Hertzog was a prominent early 20th-century South African prime minister and nationalist politician who championed Afrikaner interests and greater autonomy from the British Empire.
- 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_69a258dd8ea08190ac554a1cc8dfd8c3 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:54 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a260cfb4cc81909771b2d496b84726 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 3:28 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a3a88442708190af1193469316f757 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 2:46 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a3a90299888190b7f88d6411531823 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 2:48 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a3a96d153081909fab6bace45206ec |
completed | March 1, 2026, 2:50 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:55 a.m.