Triple

T17483928
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Great Retreat E425730 entity
Predicate notableEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Action at Néry during the retreat
The Action at Néry during the retreat was a notable 1914 First World War engagement in which British forces, particularly L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, mounted a celebrated defensive stand against advancing German troops during the Great Retreat.
E1272856 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: Action at Néry during the retreat | Statement: [Great Retreat, notableEvent, Action at Néry during the retreat]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Action at Néry during the retreat
Context triple: [Great Retreat, notableEvent, Action at Néry during the retreat]
  • A. Battle of Nivelle
    The Battle of Nivelle was a major 1813 engagement in the Peninsular War in which Allied forces under the Duke of Wellington defeated French troops in southwestern France, helping to drive Napoleon’s armies back toward the interior.
  • B. Battle of Épehy
    The Battle of Épehy was a World War I engagement in September 1918 in which British and Allied forces attacked German positions near Épehy, France, as part of the final offensives on the Western Front.
  • C. Siege of Landrecies
    The Siege of Landrecies was a 1794 French Revolutionary War engagement in which Coalition forces besieged and captured the fortified town of Landrecies in northern France during the Flanders Campaign.
  • D. Siege of Landrecies
    The Siege of Landrecies was a 1543 military engagement in the Italian War of 1542–1546 in which French forces besieged and captured the fortified town of Landrecies from the Holy Roman Empire.
  • E. Battle of Noisseville
    The Battle of Noisseville was a Franco-Prussian War engagement in late August 1870 near Metz, where German forces repelled French attempts to break out of the besieged city, tightening the encirclement that led to later decisive defeats.
  • 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: Action at Néry during the retreat
Triple: [Great Retreat, notableEvent, Action at Néry during the retreat]
Generated description
The Action at Néry during the retreat was a notable 1914 First World War engagement in which British forces, particularly L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, mounted a celebrated defensive stand against advancing German troops during the Great Retreat.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Action at Néry during the retreat
Target entity description: The Action at Néry during the retreat was a notable 1914 First World War engagement in which British forces, particularly L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, mounted a celebrated defensive stand against advancing German troops during the Great Retreat.
  • A. Battle of Nivelle
    The Battle of Nivelle was a major 1813 engagement in the Peninsular War in which Allied forces under the Duke of Wellington defeated French troops in southwestern France, helping to drive Napoleon’s armies back toward the interior.
  • B. Battle of Épehy
    The Battle of Épehy was a World War I engagement in September 1918 in which British and Allied forces attacked German positions near Épehy, France, as part of the final offensives on the Western Front.
  • C. Siege of Landrecies
    The Siege of Landrecies was a 1794 French Revolutionary War engagement in which Coalition forces besieged and captured the fortified town of Landrecies in northern France during the Flanders Campaign.
  • D. Siege of Landrecies
    The Siege of Landrecies was a 1543 military engagement in the Italian War of 1542–1546 in which French forces besieged and captured the fortified town of Landrecies from the Holy Roman Empire.
  • E. Battle of Noisseville
    The Battle of Noisseville was a Franco-Prussian War engagement in late August 1870 near Metz, where German forces repelled French attempts to break out of the besieged city, tightening the encirclement that led to later decisive defeats.
  • 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_69d889dccf7481909264a1844a2e9100 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e451d06c2881909632845dd7a6b1e3 completed April 19, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01c1faa20c8190910d429fbca4e6cb completed May 11, 2026, 11:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01c6373f008190864593e8f582b707 completed May 11, 2026, 12:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01c6d4313c819086b40432c738efcb completed May 11, 2026, 12:08 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:48 a.m.