Second Battle of the Scarpe (1917)
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The Second Battle of the Scarpe (1917) was a World War I British-led offensive on the Western Front, fought in April 1917 as part of the larger Arras campaign to break German defensive lines in northern France.
All labels observed (1)
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| Second Battle of the Scarpe (1917) canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2993720 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Second Battle of the Scarpe (1917) Context triple: [Battle of Arras (1917), associatedBattle, Second Battle of the Scarpe (1917)]
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Second Battle of the Somme (1918)
The Second Battle of the Somme (1918) was a major Allied offensive on the Western Front in World War I that helped break German lines and contributed significantly to the final collapse of the German war effort.
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Battle of Arras (1917)
The Battle of Arras (1917) was a major British-led offensive on the Western Front during World War I, notable for intense trench warfare, significant territorial gains, and heavy casualties.
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C.
Battle of Cambrai (1918)
The Battle of Cambrai (1918) was a major late-World War I Allied offensive in northern France that helped break the Hindenburg Line and contributed significantly to the final collapse of German resistance.
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Battle of Arras (1918)
The Battle of Arras (1918) was a late-World War I Allied offensive on the Western Front, part of the Hundred Days Offensive that helped break German lines and hasten the end of the war.
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E.
Battle of Polygon Wood
The Battle of Polygon Wood was a World War I engagement in 1917 in the Ypres Salient, where Australian and British forces advanced against German positions as part of the larger Third Battle of Ypres.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Second Battle of the Scarpe (1917) Target entity description: The Second Battle of the Scarpe (1917) was a World War I British-led offensive on the Western Front, fought in April 1917 as part of the larger Arras campaign to break German defensive lines in northern France.
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A.
Second Battle of the Somme (1918)
The Second Battle of the Somme (1918) was a major Allied offensive on the Western Front in World War I that helped break German lines and contributed significantly to the final collapse of the German war effort.
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B.
Battle of Arras (1917)
The Battle of Arras (1917) was a major British-led offensive on the Western Front during World War I, notable for intense trench warfare, significant territorial gains, and heavy casualties.
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C.
Battle of Cambrai (1918)
The Battle of Cambrai (1918) was a major late-World War I Allied offensive in northern France that helped break the Hindenburg Line and contributed significantly to the final collapse of German resistance.
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D.
Battle of Arras (1918)
The Battle of Arras (1918) was a late-World War I Allied offensive on the Western Front, part of the Hundred Days Offensive that helped break German lines and hasten the end of the war.
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E.
Battle of Polygon Wood
The Battle of Polygon Wood was a World War I engagement in 1917 in the Ypres Salient, where Australian and British forces advanced against German positions as part of the larger Third Battle of Ypres.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Second Battle of the Scarpe (1917) Description of subject: The Second Battle of the Scarpe (1917) was a World War I British-led offensive on the Western Front, fought in April 1917 as part of the larger Arras campaign to break German defensive lines in northern France.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.