Triple

T9509881
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sir Theophilus Shepstone E229364 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object Administrator of the Transvaal E172223 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: Administrator of the Transvaal | Statement: [Sir Theophilus Shepstone, positionHeld, Administrator of the Transvaal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Administrator of the Transvaal
Context triple: [Sir Theophilus Shepstone, positionHeld, Administrator of the Transvaal]
  • A. Administrator of the Transvaal chosen
    The Administrator of the Transvaal was the British colonial official responsible for governing and overseeing the administration of the Transvaal territory following its annexation by the United Kingdom.
  • B. Governor of Natal
    The Governor of Natal was the British colonial official who served as the monarch’s representative and chief administrator in the Colony of Natal prior to its incorporation into the Union of South Africa.
  • C. President of the Orange Free State
    The President of the Orange Free State was the head of state and government of the former independent Boer republic in southern Africa during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. Administrator of the Cape Province
    The Administrator of the Cape Province was the chief executive official of South Africa’s former Cape Province under earlier constitutional arrangements, preceding the modern role of the Premier of the Western Cape.
  • E. Governor-General of the Union of South Africa
    The Governor-General of the Union of South Africa was the British monarch’s representative and de facto head of state in South Africa from its formation in 1910 until it became a republic in 1961.
  • 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_69ca847611c48190a28c028644198c75 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9857058881909e0a40e2024a7b4c completed April 1, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d13a31600c8190a4a7ecb5231caa36 completed April 4, 2026, 4:20 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:58 p.m.