Triple

T9509878
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sir Theophilus Shepstone E229364 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Colony of Natal government E159370 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: Colony of Natal government | Statement: [Sir Theophilus Shepstone, employer, Colony of Natal government]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colony of Natal government
Context triple: [Sir Theophilus Shepstone, employer, Colony of Natal government]
  • A. Transvaal Colony government
    The Transvaal Colony government was the British colonial administration that governed the former South African Republic after the Second Boer War, prior to its incorporation into the Union of South Africa.
  • B. Colony of Natal chosen
    The Colony of Natal was a British colonial territory in southeastern Africa, centered on the port of Durban, that existed from the mid-19th century until it became part of the Union of South Africa in 1910.
  • C. Province of Natal
    The Province of Natal was a former administrative region of South Africa that existed from 1910 to 1994, encompassing the area around Durban and Pietermaritzburg along the country’s eastern coast.
  • D. Cape Colony
    Cape Colony was a former European settlement and strategic refreshment station at the southern tip of Africa that developed into a key hub of trade, migration, and colonial expansion.
  • E. provincial government of Transvaal
    The provincial government of Transvaal was the administrative authority that governed the Transvaal Province in South Africa during the period of provincial self-government under the Union of South Africa.
  • 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_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.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:58 p.m.