Triple
T9122794
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Natal Native Contingent |
E218896
|
entity |
| Predicate | partOf |
P40
|
FINISHED |
| Object | British Army forces in Southern 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 forces in Southern Africa | Statement: [Natal Native Contingent, partOf, British Army forces in Southern Africa]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Army forces in Southern Africa Context triple: [Natal Native Contingent, partOf, British Army forces in Southern Africa]
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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.
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B.
South-West Africa Campaign
The South-West Africa Campaign was a World War I military operation in which South African forces invaded and defeated German colonial rule in present-day Namibia.
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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.
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D.
Western Transvaal campaign
The Western Transvaal campaign was a phase of the Second Boer War marked by mobile guerrilla fighting between British forces and Boer commandos in the western part of the Transvaal region of South Africa.
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E.
Cape Colony theatre of the Second Boer War
The Cape Colony theatre of the Second Boer War was the southern front of the conflict in which British and Boer forces fought for control of the Cape Colony’s strategic towns, railways, and resources.
- 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_69ca83dddd548190983b96c664f7f367 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cca8b46dac8190bde88205c85f596a |
completed | April 1, 2026, 5:10 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d0308ff628819083f02bf71eb40c5b |
completed | April 3, 2026, 9:26 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:17 p.m.