Triple

T7782036
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Moses Kotane E221543 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Kotane
Kotane is a surname most notably associated with Moses Kotane, a prominent South African anti-apartheid activist and leader of the South African Communist Party.
 E693355 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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: Kotane | Statement: [Moses Kotane, familyName, Kotane]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Kotane
Context triple: [Moses Kotane, familyName, Kotane]
  • A. Teckberg
    Teckberg is a prominent hill in the Swabian Jura of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, best known as the site of the historic Teck Castle overlooking the surrounding region.
  • B. Kandas
    Kandas is an Oceanic language of the Meso-Melanesian subgroup spoken in parts of Papua New Guinea.
  • C. Opata
    Opata refers to an Indigenous people and their now largely extinct Uto-Aztecan language historically spoken in northern Mexico, particularly in the present-day state of Sonora.
  • D. Kabnis
    Kabnis is a central character in Jean Toomer's modernist work "Cane," representing the struggles of a Northern-educated Black man confronting the racial and cultural realities of the rural American South.
  • E. Kandan
    Kandan is a locality within Beijing’s Fengtai District, known primarily as a residential and urban neighborhood area.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Kotane
Triple: [Moses Kotane, familyName, Kotane]
Generated description
Kotane is a surname most notably associated with Moses Kotane, a prominent South African anti-apartheid activist and leader of the South African Communist Party.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Kotane
Target entity description: Kotane is a surname most notably associated with Moses Kotane, a prominent South African anti-apartheid activist and leader of the South African Communist Party.
  • A. Teckberg
    Teckberg is a prominent hill in the Swabian Jura of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, best known as the site of the historic Teck Castle overlooking the surrounding region.
  • B. Kandas
    Kandas is an Oceanic language of the Meso-Melanesian subgroup spoken in parts of Papua New Guinea.
  • C. Opata
    Opata refers to an Indigenous people and their now largely extinct Uto-Aztecan language historically spoken in northern Mexico, particularly in the present-day state of Sonora.
  • D. Kabnis
    Kabnis is a central character in Jean Toomer's modernist work "Cane," representing the struggles of a Northern-educated Black man confronting the racial and cultural realities of the rural American South.
  • E. Kandan
    Kandan is a locality within Beijing’s Fengtai District, known primarily as a residential and urban neighborhood area.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69ca83ebbef881909ac47f789145fef7 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cadf1dcc6c8190b3c6ee4ff7808e02 completed March 30, 2026, 8:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69caf5d30c748190bbb71534cfdf4f75 completed March 30, 2026, 10:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69caf81ebde881909bd131da8987b449 completed March 30, 2026, 10:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cafa013f348190a2067dee4a0c8c40 completed March 30, 2026, 10:32 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:21 p.m.