Triple

T9146261
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Marthinus Wessel Pretorius E219461 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Marthinus Wessel
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius was a 19th-century Boer leader who became the first president of the South African Republic (Transvaal) and later also served as president of the Orange Free State.
E783159 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: Marthinus Wessel | Statement: [Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, givenName, Marthinus Wessel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marthinus Wessel
Context triple: [Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, givenName, Marthinus Wessel]
  • A. Abel Tasman
    Abel Tasman was a 17th-century Dutch seafarer and explorer best known for being the first European to reach Tasmania and New Zealand.
  • B. Jacob Roggeveen
    Jacob Roggeveen was an 18th-century Dutch explorer best known for leading the expedition that first recorded European contact with Easter Island.
  • C. Arent Roggeveen
    Arent Roggeveen was a 17th-century Dutch cartographer and astronomer known for his work on navigation and mapping, particularly of the Atlantic and West African coasts.
  • D. Jacob Le Maire
    Jacob Le Maire was a Dutch explorer of the early 17th century known for his pioneering voyage that opened a new route to the Pacific Ocean around South America.
  • E. Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec
    Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec was an 18th-century French naval officer and explorer best known for leading the voyages that led to the European discovery of the remote sub-Antarctic archipelago now called the Kerguelen Islands.
  • 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: Marthinus Wessel
Triple: [Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, givenName, Marthinus Wessel]
Generated description
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius was a 19th-century Boer leader who became the first president of the South African Republic (Transvaal) and later also served as president of the Orange Free State.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marthinus Wessel
Target entity description: Marthinus Wessel Pretorius was a 19th-century Boer leader who became the first president of the South African Republic (Transvaal) and later also served as president of the Orange Free State.
  • A. Abel Tasman
    Abel Tasman was a 17th-century Dutch seafarer and explorer best known for being the first European to reach Tasmania and New Zealand.
  • B. Jacob Roggeveen
    Jacob Roggeveen was an 18th-century Dutch explorer best known for leading the expedition that first recorded European contact with Easter Island.
  • C. Arent Roggeveen
    Arent Roggeveen was a 17th-century Dutch cartographer and astronomer known for his work on navigation and mapping, particularly of the Atlantic and West African coasts.
  • D. Jacob Le Maire
    Jacob Le Maire was a Dutch explorer of the early 17th century known for his pioneering voyage that opened a new route to the Pacific Ocean around South America.
  • E. Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec
    Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec was an 18th-century French naval officer and explorer best known for leading the voyages that led to the European discovery of the remote sub-Antarctic archipelago now called the Kerguelen Islands.
  • 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_69ca83e121dc81909912bd66953081c5 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cca917914c8190b97ca9169bbd1e5e completed April 1, 2026, 5:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d05bfe53808190ac4cb24823b886d3 completed April 4, 2026, 12:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d05d858f7481908151d87e1a33016a completed April 4, 2026, 12:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d05e11d3e481908a7a25d8c18b3008 completed April 4, 2026, 12:40 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:19 p.m.