Triple
T2877391
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Lobengula Khumalo |
E56909
|
entity |
| Predicate | positionHeld |
P8
|
FINISHED |
| Object | King of the Ndebele |
E307231
|
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: King of the Ndebele | Statement: [Lobengula Khumalo, positionHeld, King of the Ndebele]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: King of the Ndebele Context triple: [Lobengula Khumalo, positionHeld, King of the Ndebele]
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A.
King of the Xhosa
The King of the Xhosa is the paramount traditional monarch and symbolic leader of the Xhosa people of South Africa.
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B.
King of the AbaThembu
The King of the AbaThembu is the hereditary monarch and highest traditional authority of the Thembu people, a Xhosa-speaking ethnic group in South Africa.
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C.
Lobengula
chosen
Lobengula was the second and last king of the Ndebele (Matabele) Kingdom in what is now Zimbabwe, known for his resistance to British colonial encroachment in the late 19th century.
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D.
King Shaka Zulu
King Shaka Zulu was the early 19th-century Zulu king and military innovator who forged the Zulu Kingdom into a powerful regional force in southern Africa.
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E.
Sovereign of the Congo Free State
The Sovereign of the Congo Free State was the monarch who personally ruled the Congo Free State as a private colonial possession, most infamously held by King Leopold II of Belgium during a period marked by extreme exploitation and atrocities.
- 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_69ab4a4ced288190ab6d3e062d10f7f6 |
completed | March 6, 2026, 9:42 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abe007329c8190b0bc1851c7307124 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 8:21 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b08648923c8190bd544177b825a494 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 8:59 p.m. |
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:03 p.m.