Triple
T8132099
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa |
E189874
|
entity |
| Predicate | officeHoldersInclude |
P537
|
FINISHED |
| Object | D. F. Malan |
E13309
|
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: D. F. Malan | Statement: [Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, officeHoldersInclude, D. F. Malan]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: D. F. Malan Context triple: [Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, officeHoldersInclude, D. F. Malan]
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A.
D. F. Malan
chosen
D. F. Malan was a South African prime minister and National Party leader best known for formally instituting and entrenching the apartheid system.
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B.
Hendrik Klopper
Hendrik Klopper was a South African Army officer and World War II general best known for his leadership of Allied forces during the 1942 Battle of Tobruk.
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C.
Louis Botha
Louis Botha was a prominent Boer military leader who became the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa.
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D.
Hendrik Verwoerd
Hendrik Verwoerd was the South African prime minister widely regarded as the chief architect of the apartheid system of racial segregation and white minority rule.
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E.
B. J. Vorster
B. J. Vorster was a South African politician who served as prime minister and later state president during the apartheid era, playing a central role in enforcing and defending the system of racial segregation.
- 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_69ca82bcb4848190a9a9d036ad768642 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cb43b96cd481908c0679050c35d83f |
completed | March 31, 2026, 3:47 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cde709d3188190b3a954a613c3c5b2 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 3:48 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:34 p.m.