Triple

T9522834
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Graspan E229684 entity
Predicate theatre P671 FINISHED
Object Cape Colony theatre of the Second Boer War E465524 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: Cape Colony theatre of the Second Boer War | Statement: [Battle of Graspan, theatre, Cape Colony theatre of the Second Boer War]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cape Colony theatre of the Second Boer War
Context triple: [Battle of Graspan, theatre, Cape Colony theatre of the Second Boer War]
  • A. Cape Colony theatre of the Second Boer War chosen
    The Cape Colony theatre of the Second Boer War was the southern front of the conflict in which British and Boer forces fought for control of the Cape Colony’s strategic towns, railways, and resources.
  • B. Orange Free State theatre of Second Boer War
    The Orange Free State theatre of the Second Boer War was the region within the Boer republic of the Orange Free State where major military operations and battles between British and Boer forces took place from 1899 to 1902.
  • C. British occupation of Bloemfontein
    The British occupation of Bloemfontein was a key phase of the Second Boer War during which British forces captured and held the Orange Free State capital, marking a major strategic and symbolic setback for the Boer republics.
  • D. Western Transvaal campaign
    The Western Transvaal campaign was a phase of the Second Boer War marked by mobile guerrilla fighting between British forces and Boer commandos in the western part of the Transvaal region of South Africa.
  • E. Boer invasion of Cape Colony
    The Boer invasion of Cape Colony was an early Second Boer War campaign in which Boer forces crossed into British-controlled Cape territory, triggering key engagements and sieges such as those at Kimberley and Mafeking.
  • 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_69ca847870a881909d8d751a7d29da39 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd989788e4819086c235bf37a56b04 completed April 1, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d13a61fbd08190bb68ffe29da3a34a completed April 4, 2026, 4:20 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:59 p.m.