Triple

T5855696
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Rorke's Drift E130146 entity
Predicate belligerent P375 FINISHED
Object Colony of Natal E159370 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: Colony of Natal | Statement: [Battle of Rorke's Drift, belligerent, Colony of Natal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Colony of Natal
Context triple: [Battle of Rorke's Drift, belligerent, Colony of Natal]
  • A. Colony of Natal chosen
    The Colony of Natal was a British colonial territory in southeastern Africa, centered on the port of Durban, that existed from the mid-19th century until it became part of the Union of South Africa in 1910.
  • B. Cape Colony
    Cape Colony was a former European settlement and strategic refreshment station at the southern tip of Africa that developed into a key hub of trade, migration, and colonial expansion.
  • C. Boer Republic of Natalia
    The Boer Republic of Natalia was a short-lived 19th-century Boer-ruled republic in southeastern Africa that existed before being incorporated into British-controlled Natal.
  • D. Dominion of South Africa
    The Dominion of South Africa was a self-governing British dominion (1910–1961) that participated in both World Wars and formed the historical predecessor to the modern Republic of South Africa.
  • E. KwaZulu homeland
    KwaZulu homeland was a former apartheid-era Bantustan in South Africa designated for Zulu people before being reincorporated into the modern province of KwaZulu-Natal.
  • 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_69c0084de39081909eb34e6bed74215a completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c03555cd6081908b0307decd60d2bc completed March 22, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0a1bc58d081908568294278cbf3a9 completed March 23, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:55 p.m.