Triple

T2648949
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thabo Mbeki E53850 entity
Predicate precededBy (Deputy President of South Africa) P21017 FINISHED
Object Frederik Willem de Klerk E39205 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: Frederik Willem de Klerk | Statement: [Thabo Mbeki, precededBy (Deputy President of South Africa), Frederik Willem de Klerk]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederik Willem de Klerk
Context triple: [Thabo Mbeki, precededBy (Deputy President of South Africa), Frederik Willem de Klerk]
  • A. F. W. de Klerk chosen
    F. W. de Klerk was the last apartheid-era president of South Africa, known for initiating the end of white minority rule and sharing the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela.
  • B. Jan de Klerk
    Jan de Klerk was a South African National Party politician who served as a cabinet minister and President of the Senate, and was the father of future president F. W. de Klerk.
  • C. Faf de Klerk
    Faf de Klerk is a dynamic South African scrum-half known for his high-tempo play, fierce defense, and key role in the Springboks’ Rugby World Cup successes.
  • D. P. W. Botha
    P. W. Botha was a hardline apartheid-era South African leader who served as prime minister and later as the country’s first executive state president, overseeing intensified repression and limited reforms in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • E. Kekewich Mandela
    Kekewich Mandela is a member of the Thembu royal family, a Xhosa-speaking dynasty in South Africa historically associated with leadership and chieftaincy.
  • 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: precededBy (Deputy President of South Africa)
Context triple: [Thabo Mbeki, precededBy (Deputy President of South Africa), Frederik Willem de Klerk]
  • A. precededAsVicePresidentBy
    Indicates that one entity served as vice president immediately before another entity in a sequence of officeholders.
  • B. precededByOfficeHolder chosen
    Indicates that one office holder directly held a position before another office holder in a sequence of occupants of the same office.
  • C. predecessorInOffice
    Indicates that one officeholder directly held a particular position before another officeholder in an official succession.
  • D. precededByAsHomeSecretary
    Indicates that one individual previously held the position of Home Secretary before another individual.
  • E. precededByAsPresident
    Indicates that one individual held the office of president immediately before another individual.
  • 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_69ab495e192081909c77b622e8e7e15a completed March 6, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd91b4b3c81908571e85a1621dfc5 completed March 7, 2026, 7:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af98c944548190a8dbe9b81045e97b completed March 10, 2026, 4:06 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69abd814298c8190952f05aed43f6bb8 completed March 7, 2026, 7:47 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:53 p.m.