Triple

T20995491
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Donald Woods E517136 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object South African Dispatches
South African Dispatches is a collection of writings by South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist Donald Woods, documenting life and politics under apartheid.
E1460868 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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: South African Dispatches | Statement: [Donald Woods, notableWork, South African Dispatches]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: South African Dispatches
Context triple: [Donald Woods, notableWork, South African Dispatches]
  • A. The Call of South Africa
    The Call of South Africa is the English version of "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika," the former national anthem of South Africa that celebrated the country’s landscape, heritage, and Afrikaner nationalism.
  • B. The South African Connection
    The South African Connection is a political and investigative work by anti-apartheid activist and journalist Ruth First that examines South Africa’s role in regional and international networks of power, capital, and oppression.
  • C. South African newspapers
    South African newspapers are print and digital news publications in South Africa that report on national and local events, politics, culture, and public life in various languages.
  • D. South Africa: No Middle Road
    South Africa: No Middle Road is a political work by anti-apartheid leader Joe Slovo that analyzes apartheid-era South Africa and argues for a revolutionary path to socialism.
  • E. South Africa: The Peasants' Revolt
    South Africa: The Peasants' Revolt is a seminal political study by Govan Mbeki that analyzes rural resistance and peasant struggles against apartheid-era land and labor policies in South Africa.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: South African Dispatches
Triple: [Donald Woods, notableWork, South African Dispatches]
Generated description
South African Dispatches is a collection of writings by South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist Donald Woods, documenting life and politics under apartheid.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: South African Dispatches
Target entity description: South African Dispatches is a collection of writings by South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist Donald Woods, documenting life and politics under apartheid.
  • A. The Call of South Africa
    The Call of South Africa is the English version of "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika," the former national anthem of South Africa that celebrated the country’s landscape, heritage, and Afrikaner nationalism.
  • B. The South African Connection
    The South African Connection is a political and investigative work by anti-apartheid activist and journalist Ruth First that examines South Africa’s role in regional and international networks of power, capital, and oppression.
  • C. South African newspapers
    South African newspapers are print and digital news publications in South Africa that report on national and local events, politics, culture, and public life in various languages.
  • D. South Africa: No Middle Road
    South Africa: No Middle Road is a political work by anti-apartheid leader Joe Slovo that analyzes apartheid-era South Africa and argues for a revolutionary path to socialism.
  • E. South Africa: The Peasants' Revolt
    South Africa: The Peasants' Revolt is a seminal political study by Govan Mbeki that analyzes rural resistance and peasant struggles against apartheid-era land and labor policies in South Africa.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69e0b5006e2881909fc2383f841740cc completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6fc1fd5d48190a56981cee95ebd69 completed April 21, 2026, 4:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a092fcdc8648190b92b03d417918883 completed May 17, 2026, 3:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0930a5cffc8190a7d1cc19e5cacf49 completed May 17, 2026, 3:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a093133c77c8190a9e0326980c7717f completed May 17, 2026, 3:08 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 1:50 p.m.