Triple

T9715331
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edwin Alderson E235127 entity
Predicate servedIn P253 FINISHED
Object British Army in South Africa E266909 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: British Army in South Africa | Statement: [Edwin Alderson, servedIn, British Army in South Africa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Army in South Africa
Context triple: [Edwin Alderson, servedIn, British Army in South Africa]
  • A. British forces in the Second Boer War chosen
    British forces in the Second Boer War were the imperial troops of the United Kingdom that fought from 1899 to 1902 to suppress the Boer republics in South Africa and secure British control over the region.
  • B. British forces in the Anglo-Zulu War
    British forces in the Anglo-Zulu War were the imperial British Army and colonial troops deployed in southern Africa in 1879 to invade the Zulu Kingdom, culminating in a series of notable battles including Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift.
  • C. Zulu Army
    The Zulu Army was the highly disciplined and formidable military force of the Zulu Kingdom in southern Africa, renowned for its tactical innovations and major victories during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.
  • D. British Empire in South Africa
    The British Empire in South Africa refers to the period of British colonial expansion, rule, and conflict in the region, including the annexation of territories and wars with Boer republics and indigenous peoples from the early 19th to early 20th centuries.
  • E. British South Africa Company forces
    The British South Africa Company forces were the private colonial troops of Cecil Rhodes’s chartered company, used to expand and police British interests in southern Africa in the late 19th century.
  • 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_69ca84cd8fa0819090a5e243ceb37003 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9e0a1b548190b34c8571751ca1d3 completed April 1, 2026, 10:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d19f941b908190a3e27f4b6c1b3535 completed April 4, 2026, 11:32 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:20 p.m.