Triple
T6956325
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Redvers Buller |
E161250
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableEvent |
P259
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Battles of Colenso, Spion Kop, and Vaal Krantz |
E250413
|
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: Battles of Colenso, Spion Kop, and Vaal Krantz | Statement: [Redvers Buller, notableEvent, Battles of Colenso, Spion Kop, and Vaal Krantz]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battles of Colenso, Spion Kop, and Vaal Krantz Context triple: [Redvers Buller, notableEvent, Battles of Colenso, Spion Kop, and Vaal Krantz]
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A.
Battle of Colenso
chosen
The Battle of Colenso was a major early engagement of the Second Boer War in December 1899, in which British forces suffered a significant defeat while attempting to relieve the besieged town of Ladysmith in Natal, South Africa.
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B.
Battle of Bronkhorstspruit
The Battle of Bronkhorstspruit was an 1880 engagement in the Transvaal where Boer forces ambushed and decisively defeated a British column early in the First Boer War.
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C.
Battle of Paardeberg
The Battle of Paardeberg was a major engagement of the Second Boer War in February 1900, where British forces decisively defeated and captured a large Boer army under General Piet Cronjé in the Orange Free State.
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D.
Battle of Laing's Nek
The Battle of Laing's Nek was a key 1881 engagement in the First Boer War in which Boer forces successfully repelled a British attempt to break through a strategic mountain pass in the Transvaal.
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E.
Battle of Spion Kop
The Battle of Spion Kop was a major and bloody engagement of the Second Boer War in January 1900, in which British forces suffered heavy casualties while attempting to relieve the besieged town of Ladysmith in South Africa.
- 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_69c68852a9a0819097797e31d492e273 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6dacf8c8c8190a25dbacebeb4b66e |
completed | March 27, 2026, 7:30 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c75888d48c81908a8dbd16d7591b55 |
completed | March 28, 2026, 4:26 a.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:29 p.m.