Triple
T3892532
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Wilbur Smith |
E88092
|
entity |
| Predicate | placeOfBirth |
P1
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia |
E311509
|
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: Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia | Statement: [Wilbur Smith, placeOfBirth, Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia Context triple: [Wilbur Smith, placeOfBirth, Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia]
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A.
Nkana, Northern Rhodesia
chosen
Nkana, Northern Rhodesia was a mining town in what is now Zambia, historically known for its copper industry during the British colonial period.
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B.
Mopani Copper Mines
Mopani Copper Mines is a major Zambian mining company focused on the extraction and processing of copper and cobalt.
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C.
Northern Rhodesia
Northern Rhodesia was a former British protectorate in south-central Africa that later became the independent nation of Zambia in 1964.
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D.
Minette iron-ore basin
The Minette iron-ore basin is a historically important iron ore mining region in Lorraine and neighboring areas that underpinned much of the steel industry in Luxembourg and northeastern France.
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E.
Kimberley Mine
Kimberley Mine is a famous South African open-pit diamond mine renowned as one of the earliest and largest diamond discoveries in the world.
- 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_69aed9466d548190939f5217a23ed4ac |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aeecb237748190a4d41b76e8efd0ba |
completed | March 9, 2026, 3:52 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b51c9484f08190b47eec550e521da5 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 8:30 a.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:21 p.m.