Triple

T15251039
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Portuguese expansion into North Africa E364517 entity
Predicate hasKeyEvent P811 FINISHED
Object Occupation of Mazagan (El Jadida)
The Occupation of Mazagan (El Jadida) was a 16th-century Portuguese seizure and long-term control of the Moroccan coastal town of Mazagan, which became a key fortified outpost in their North African empire.
E1146006 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: Occupation of Mazagan (El Jadida) | Statement: [Portuguese expansion into North Africa, hasKeyEvent, Occupation of Mazagan (El Jadida)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Occupation of Mazagan (El Jadida)
Context triple: [Portuguese expansion into North Africa, hasKeyEvent, Occupation of Mazagan (El Jadida)]
  • A. Capture of Laghouat
    The Capture of Laghouat was a pivotal 1852 French military operation in the Sahara that brutally subdued the oasis town of Laghouat, symbolizing the harsh consolidation of French colonial rule in Algeria.
  • B. Capture of Touggourt
    The Capture of Touggourt was a French military operation in the mid-19th century that secured the oasis town of Touggourt in the Sahara, extending French colonial control deeper into southern Algeria.
  • C. Moroccan campaign
    The Moroccan campaign was a series of World War II military operations in North Africa focused on securing and controlling Morocco as part of the broader Allied and Axis struggle on the continent.
  • D. French military intervention in Fez
    The French military intervention in Fez was a 1911 deployment of French troops to the Moroccan city of Fez that escalated European tensions and helped spark the Second Moroccan Crisis.
  • E. Sétif and Guelma massacre of 1945
    The Sétif and Guelma massacre of 1945 was a brutal French colonial repression of Algerian nationalist demonstrations that resulted in thousands of Algerian deaths and is widely seen as a key catalyst for the later Algerian War of Independence.
  • 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: Occupation of Mazagan (El Jadida)
Triple: [Portuguese expansion into North Africa, hasKeyEvent, Occupation of Mazagan (El Jadida)]
Generated description
The Occupation of Mazagan (El Jadida) was a 16th-century Portuguese seizure and long-term control of the Moroccan coastal town of Mazagan, which became a key fortified outpost in their North African empire.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Occupation of Mazagan (El Jadida)
Target entity description: The Occupation of Mazagan (El Jadida) was a 16th-century Portuguese seizure and long-term control of the Moroccan coastal town of Mazagan, which became a key fortified outpost in their North African empire.
  • A. Capture of Laghouat
    The Capture of Laghouat was a pivotal 1852 French military operation in the Sahara that brutally subdued the oasis town of Laghouat, symbolizing the harsh consolidation of French colonial rule in Algeria.
  • B. Capture of Touggourt
    The Capture of Touggourt was a French military operation in the mid-19th century that secured the oasis town of Touggourt in the Sahara, extending French colonial control deeper into southern Algeria.
  • C. Moroccan campaign
    The Moroccan campaign was a series of World War II military operations in North Africa focused on securing and controlling Morocco as part of the broader Allied and Axis struggle on the continent.
  • D. French military intervention in Fez
    The French military intervention in Fez was a 1911 deployment of French troops to the Moroccan city of Fez that escalated European tensions and helped spark the Second Moroccan Crisis.
  • E. Sétif and Guelma massacre of 1945
    The Sétif and Guelma massacre of 1945 was a brutal French colonial repression of Algerian nationalist demonstrations that resulted in thousands of Algerian deaths and is widely seen as a key catalyst for the later Algerian War of Independence.
  • 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_69d85a0dde7481908fc64d1e82d5d20d completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e007f728648190b2c86e4528542b65 completed April 15, 2026, 9:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fee5f390bc8190bc0180c118e1523c completed May 9, 2026, 7:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fee68055b88190afa0e3b1bc2b13bb completed May 9, 2026, 7:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fee7190a6c81908fa7376f3e3c5371 completed May 9, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:13 a.m.