Triple

T21886710
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject State Secretary of the South African Republic E540423 entity
Predicate positionHeldBy P8 FINISHED
Object Louis Jacobus Meyer
Louis Jacobus Meyer was a South African politician who served in the government of the South African Republic (Transvaal) during the late 19th century.
E1534048 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: Louis Jacobus Meyer | Statement: [State Secretary of the South African Republic, positionHeldBy, Louis Jacobus Meyer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Louis Jacobus Meyer
Context triple: [State Secretary of the South African Republic, positionHeldBy, Louis Jacobus Meyer]
  • A. Louis Bamberger
    Louis Bamberger was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for using his fortune from a successful Newark department store to help establish the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
  • B. August Meyer
    August Meyer was an American mining engineer and civic leader known for his significant role in the development and planning of Kansas City, Missouri, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Hermann Heinrich Meier
    Hermann Heinrich Meier was a 19th-century German businessman and politician best known as a co-founder and leading figure of the major transatlantic shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd.
  • D. Carl Meissner
    Carl Meissner was a 19th-century Swiss botanist known for his extensive taxonomic work on various plant families and genera.
  • E. August Thalheimer
    August Thalheimer was a German Marxist theorist and politician known for his leading role in the Communist Party of Germany and his influential contributions to Marxist theory in the early 20th century.
  • 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: Louis Jacobus Meyer
Triple: [State Secretary of the South African Republic, positionHeldBy, Louis Jacobus Meyer]
Generated description
Louis Jacobus Meyer was a South African politician who served in the government of the South African Republic (Transvaal) during the late 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Louis Jacobus Meyer
Target entity description: Louis Jacobus Meyer was a South African politician who served in the government of the South African Republic (Transvaal) during the late 19th century.
  • A. Louis Bamberger
    Louis Bamberger was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for using his fortune from a successful Newark department store to help establish the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
  • B. August Meyer
    August Meyer was an American mining engineer and civic leader known for his significant role in the development and planning of Kansas City, Missouri, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Hermann Heinrich Meier
    Hermann Heinrich Meier was a 19th-century German businessman and politician best known as a co-founder and leading figure of the major transatlantic shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd.
  • D. Carl Meissner
    Carl Meissner was a 19th-century Swiss botanist known for his extensive taxonomic work on various plant families and genera.
  • E. August Thalheimer
    August Thalheimer was a German Marxist theorist and politician known for his leading role in the Communist Party of Germany and his influential contributions to Marxist theory in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69e0c47a95908190ae3e19b716accb3d completed April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f118ed35948190bbffba2c40029eee completed April 28, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0ae99e15848190b7fe1bfb37ad2ef4 completed May 18, 2026, 10:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0aea9aad5c81908fca5ea2b594effb completed May 18, 2026, 10:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0aeb4ce6d48190ac9281afb7b43391 completed May 18, 2026, 10:34 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 7:05 p.m.