Triple

T9146260
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Marthinus Wessel Pretorius E219461 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Pretorius
Pretorius is a South African surname most notably associated with Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, a key 19th-century Boer political leader and first president of the South African Republic.
E35018 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: Pretorius | Statement: [Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, familyName, Pretorius]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pretorius
Context triple: [Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, familyName, Pretorius]
  • A. Andries Pretorius
    Andries Pretorius was a prominent 19th-century Boer leader and military commander who played a key role in establishing Afrikaner republics in southern Africa.
  • B. Piet Cronjé
    Piet Cronjé was a prominent Boer general during the Second Boer War, best known for leading Transvaal forces and for his eventual surrender at the Battle of Paardeberg in 1900.
  • C. Christiaan de Wet
    Christiaan de Wet was a prominent Boer general and guerrilla leader renowned for his daring and highly effective campaigns against British forces during the Second Boer War.
  • D. Boer general Koos de la Rey
    Boer general Koos de la Rey was a renowned South African military leader of the Second Boer War, celebrated for his tactical brilliance and revered as one of the most formidable Boer commanders.
  • E. Quartus de Wet
    Quartus de Wet was the South African judge who presided over the landmark Rivonia Trial that led to the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid leaders.
  • 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: Pretorius
Triple: [Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, familyName, Pretorius]
Generated description
Pretorius is a South African surname most notably associated with Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, a key 19th-century Boer political leader and first president of the South African Republic.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pretorius
Target entity description: Pretorius is a South African surname most notably associated with Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, a key 19th-century Boer political leader and first president of the South African Republic.
  • A. Andries Pretorius chosen
    Andries Pretorius was a prominent 19th-century Boer leader and military commander who played a key role in establishing Afrikaner republics in southern Africa.
  • B. Piet Cronjé
    Piet Cronjé was a prominent Boer general during the Second Boer War, best known for leading Transvaal forces and for his eventual surrender at the Battle of Paardeberg in 1900.
  • C. Christiaan de Wet
    Christiaan de Wet was a prominent Boer general and guerrilla leader renowned for his daring and highly effective campaigns against British forces during the Second Boer War.
  • D. Boer general Koos de la Rey
    Boer general Koos de la Rey was a renowned South African military leader of the Second Boer War, celebrated for his tactical brilliance and revered as one of the most formidable Boer commanders.
  • E. Quartus de Wet
    Quartus de Wet was the South African judge who presided over the landmark Rivonia Trial that led to the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid leaders.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ca83e121dc81909912bd66953081c5 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cca917914c8190b97ca9169bbd1e5e completed April 1, 2026, 5:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d05bfe53808190ac4cb24823b886d3 completed April 4, 2026, 12:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d05d858f7481908151d87e1a33016a completed April 4, 2026, 12:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d05e11d3e481908a7a25d8c18b3008 completed April 4, 2026, 12:40 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:19 p.m.