Triple
T9708637
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Buffalo River (South Africa) |
E234962
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasCrossing |
P416
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Rorke's Drift crossing |
E550066
|
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: Rorke's Drift crossing | Statement: [Buffalo River (South Africa), hasCrossing, Rorke's Drift crossing]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rorke's Drift crossing Context triple: [Buffalo River (South Africa), hasCrossing, Rorke's Drift crossing]
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A.
Crossing of the Drakensberg
The Crossing of the Drakensberg was a pivotal 1830s Voortrekker passage over South Africa’s Drakensberg mountains that opened the way for Boer settlement into the interior during the Great Trek.
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B.
Rorke's Drift mission station
chosen
Rorke's Drift mission station was a small British frontier outpost and Christian mission in Natal, South Africa, that became famous as the site of a dramatic defensive battle during the Anglo-Zulu War.
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C.
Battle of Rorke's Drift
The Battle of Rorke's Drift was an 1879 engagement in the Anglo-Zulu War in which a small British garrison famously defended a mission station against a much larger Zulu force.
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D.
Transvaal Trek
Transvaal Trek was a segment of the 19th-century Great Trek in which Boer settlers migrated into the Transvaal region to escape British colonial rule and establish independent republics.
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E.
Mafeking
Mafeking is a town in South Africa historically renowned as the site of the famous Siege of Mafeking during the Second Boer War.
- 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_69ca84cc78808190a56f3402b7c139a7 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cd9da7c6188190b086f7e411378268 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 10:35 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d19f8476e08190865700679069dee6 |
completed | April 4, 2026, 11:32 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:19 p.m.