Triple
T5771926
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | State President of South Africa |
E127349
|
entity |
| Predicate | lastOfficeHolder |
P13875
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Frederik Willem de Klerk |
E39205
|
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: Frederik Willem de Klerk | Statement: [State President of South Africa, lastOfficeHolder, Frederik Willem de Klerk]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederik Willem de Klerk Context triple: [State President of South Africa, lastOfficeHolder, Frederik Willem de Klerk]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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_69c00834f6308190851b0abeddd8ed7e |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c029adda188190a5c26c363614145f |
completed | March 22, 2026, 5:41 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c07e648aa881908411a00d48998ecc |
completed | March 22, 2026, 11:42 p.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:50 p.m.