Triple

T8138824
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Smuts government E190037 entity
Predicate governorGeneral P6465 FINISHED
Object Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet
Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet was a South African jurist and statesman who served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa during the mid-20th century.
E748171 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: Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet | Statement: [Smuts government, governorGeneral, Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet
Context triple: [Smuts government, governorGeneral, Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet]
  • A. Christiaan de Wet
    Christiaan de Wet was a prominent Boer general and guerrilla leader renowned for his daring and highly effective campaigns against British forces during the Second Boer War.
  • B. Quartus de Wet
    Quartus de Wet was the South African judge who presided over the landmark Rivonia Trial that led to the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid leaders.
  • C. Piet Joubert
    Piet Joubert was a prominent Boer military leader and politician who served as Commandant-General of the South African Republic and played a key role in conflicts against British rule in the late 19th century.
  • D. Piet Cronjé
    Piet Cronjé was a prominent Boer general during the Second Boer War, best known for leading Transvaal forces and for his eventual surrender at the Battle of Paardeberg in 1900.
  • E. Andries Hendrik Potgieter
    Andries Hendrik Potgieter was a prominent Voortrekker leader and Boer pioneer who played a key role in establishing early Boer settlements in the interior of southern Africa during the 19th century.
  • 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: Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet
Triple: [Smuts government, governorGeneral, Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet]
Generated description
Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet was a South African jurist and statesman who served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa during the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet
Target entity description: Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet was a South African jurist and statesman who served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa during the mid-20th century.
  • A. Christiaan de Wet
    Christiaan de Wet was a prominent Boer general and guerrilla leader renowned for his daring and highly effective campaigns against British forces during the Second Boer War.
  • B. Quartus de Wet
    Quartus de Wet was the South African judge who presided over the landmark Rivonia Trial that led to the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid leaders.
  • C. Piet Joubert
    Piet Joubert was a prominent Boer military leader and politician who served as Commandant-General of the South African Republic and played a key role in conflicts against British rule in the late 19th century.
  • D. Piet Cronjé
    Piet Cronjé was a prominent Boer general during the Second Boer War, best known for leading Transvaal forces and for his eventual surrender at the Battle of Paardeberg in 1900.
  • E. Andries Hendrik Potgieter
    Andries Hendrik Potgieter was a prominent Voortrekker leader and Boer pioneer who played a key role in establishing early Boer settlements in the interior of southern Africa during the 19th century.
  • 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_69ca82bd9900819099477cdc2eb4244f completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb4403cd348190a66ca9ee70d750fb completed March 31, 2026, 3:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cecc1842608190bc0fd78e28aa324d completed April 2, 2026, 8:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cece14193081909e7b36f5b5b7da40 completed April 2, 2026, 8:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cecee1db28819095f704b96b8c6d2a completed April 2, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:35 p.m.