Triple

T9509864
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sir Theophilus Shepstone E229364 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Shepstone
Shepstone is a surname most notably associated with Sir Theophilus Shepstone, a 19th-century British South African statesman involved in colonial administration and annexation policies.
 E803799 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: Shepstone | Statement: [Sir Theophilus Shepstone, familyName, Shepstone]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Shepstone
Context triple: [Sir Theophilus Shepstone, familyName, Shepstone]
  • A. Bothasig
    Bothasig is a residential suburb in the northern part of Cape Town, South Africa.
  • B. Pilani
    Pilani is a town in the Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan, India, best known as an educational hub and the location of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS Pilani).
  • C. Makhado
    Makhado is a major town in South Africa’s Limpopo province, serving as an important commercial and administrative center in the Vhembe region.
  • D. Verwoerd
    Verwoerd is a surname most prominently associated with Hendrik Verwoerd, the South African prime minister widely regarded as the chief architect of apartheid.
  • E. Rokhele
    Rokhele is a central female character in Sholem Aleichem’s Yiddish novel "Stempenyu," portrayed as a young married woman whose emotional turmoil and attraction to the charismatic fiddler Stempenyu drive much of the story’s romantic and moral conflict.
  • 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: Shepstone
Triple: [Sir Theophilus Shepstone, familyName, Shepstone]
Generated description
Shepstone is a surname most notably associated with Sir Theophilus Shepstone, a 19th-century British South African statesman involved in colonial administration and annexation policies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Shepstone
Target entity description: Shepstone is a surname most notably associated with Sir Theophilus Shepstone, a 19th-century British South African statesman involved in colonial administration and annexation policies.
  • A. Bothasig
    Bothasig is a residential suburb in the northern part of Cape Town, South Africa.
  • B. Pilani
    Pilani is a town in the Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan, India, best known as an educational hub and the location of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS Pilani).
  • C. Makhado
    Makhado is a major town in South Africa’s Limpopo province, serving as an important commercial and administrative center in the Vhembe region.
  • D. Verwoerd
    Verwoerd is a surname most prominently associated with Hendrik Verwoerd, the South African prime minister widely regarded as the chief architect of apartheid.
  • E. Rokhele
    Rokhele is a central female character in Sholem Aleichem’s Yiddish novel "Stempenyu," portrayed as a young married woman whose emotional turmoil and attraction to the charismatic fiddler Stempenyu drive much of the story’s romantic and moral conflict.
  • 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_69ca847611c48190a28c028644198c75 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9857058881909e0a40e2024a7b4c completed April 1, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d13a31600c8190a4a7ecb5231caa36 completed April 4, 2026, 4:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d13be79b1c8190a9110312ae25cf32 completed April 4, 2026, 4:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d13ca165b88190b4d629df0e079b3b completed April 4, 2026, 4:30 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:58 p.m.