Triple
T16861387
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Malan family of South Africa |
E409920
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableMember |
P10
|
FINISHED |
| Object | D. F. Malan |
E13309
|
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: D. F. Malan | Statement: [Malan family of South Africa, notableMember, D. F. Malan]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: D. F. Malan Context triple: [Malan family of South Africa, notableMember, D. F. Malan]
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A.
D. F. Malan
chosen
D. F. Malan was a South African prime minister and National Party leader best known for formally instituting and entrenching the apartheid system.
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B.
Max Hare
Max Hare is the speedy but overconfident rabbit character in Disney’s 1935 animated short "The Tortoise and the Hare," loosely based on Aesop’s fable.
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C.
Pieter Vorster
Pieter Vorster is a relatively obscure individual whose primary current distinction is simply being noted as a bearer of the Vorster surname.
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D.
Piet Meyer
Piet Meyer was a South African Afrikaner nationalist politician and leader associated with right-wing, pro-apartheid movements in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Adriaan Vorster
Adriaan Vorster is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Vorster.
- 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_69d88395e6c88190b22730f335107c14 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:59 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e3b5036e6c8190a3b9e525a34da2e1 |
completed | April 18, 2026, 4:44 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a01413843ec8190b4205aa5fdce28e5 |
completed | May 11, 2026, 2:38 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:24 a.m.