Triple

T2492880
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cuban intervention in Angola E52084 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Battle of Cuito Cuanavale
The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale was a major late–Cold War confrontation in southern Angola between Cuban, Angolan, and Namibian forces on one side and South African and UNITA forces on the other, widely seen as a turning point in the conflicts that led to Namibian independence and the weakening of apartheid South Africa.
E237770 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: Battle of Cuito Cuanavale | Statement: [Cuban intervention in Angola, hasPart, Battle of Cuito Cuanavale]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Cuito Cuanavale
Context triple: [Cuban intervention in Angola, hasPart, Battle of Cuito Cuanavale]
  • A. South African Border War
    The South African Border War was a protracted Cold War–era conflict (c. 1966–1989) in Namibia and Angola involving South Africa, liberation movements, and foreign allies such as Cuba, centered on decolonization, apartheid, and regional power struggles in southern Africa.
  • B. Battle of Gabon
    The Battle of Gabon was a 1940 World War II campaign in French Equatorial Africa in which Free French and Allied forces seized control of Vichy-held Gabon, consolidating Free French authority in central Africa.
  • C. Battle of Majuba Hill
    The Battle of Majuba Hill was a decisive 1881 engagement in which Boer forces inflicted a crushing defeat on the British, effectively ending the First Boer War and leading to restored self-government for the Transvaal.
  • D. Battle of Wau
    The Battle of Wau was a World War II engagement in early 1943 in which Australian forces successfully defended the strategically vital airfield town of Wau in New Guinea against advancing Japanese troops.
  • E. Battle of Pretoria
    The Battle of Pretoria was a key engagement of the Second Boer War in June 1900, during which British forces captured the Boer capital of Pretoria, marking a major turning point in the conflict.
  • 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: Battle of Cuito Cuanavale
Triple: [Cuban intervention in Angola, hasPart, Battle of Cuito Cuanavale]
Generated description
The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale was a major late–Cold War confrontation in southern Angola between Cuban, Angolan, and Namibian forces on one side and South African and UNITA forces on the other, widely seen as a turning point in the conflicts that led to Namibian independence and the weakening of apartheid South Africa.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Cuito Cuanavale
Target entity description: The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale was a major late–Cold War confrontation in southern Angola between Cuban, Angolan, and Namibian forces on one side and South African and UNITA forces on the other, widely seen as a turning point in the conflicts that led to Namibian independence and the weakening of apartheid South Africa.
  • A. South African Border War chosen
    The South African Border War was a protracted Cold War–era conflict (c. 1966–1989) in Namibia and Angola involving South Africa, liberation movements, and foreign allies such as Cuba, centered on decolonization, apartheid, and regional power struggles in southern Africa.
  • B. Battle of Gabon
    The Battle of Gabon was a 1940 World War II campaign in French Equatorial Africa in which Free French and Allied forces seized control of Vichy-held Gabon, consolidating Free French authority in central Africa.
  • C. Battle of Majuba Hill
    The Battle of Majuba Hill was a decisive 1881 engagement in which Boer forces inflicted a crushing defeat on the British, effectively ending the First Boer War and leading to restored self-government for the Transvaal.
  • D. Battle of Wau
    The Battle of Wau was a World War II engagement in early 1943 in which Australian forces successfully defended the strategically vital airfield town of Wau in New Guinea against advancing Japanese troops.
  • E. Battle of Pretoria
    The Battle of Pretoria was a key engagement of the Second Boer War in June 1900, during which British forces captured the Boer capital of Pretoria, marking a major turning point in the conflict.
  • 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_69ab4955111c8190835bf619adec21ff completed March 6, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd192cad08190b13bf8e2d7149199 completed March 7, 2026, 7:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af1f93a29081908de1107bf0f96647 completed March 9, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af213dd1dc8190ae05fd58b9a4487b completed March 9, 2026, 7:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af220603308190904e2e28ecb3ad09 completed March 9, 2026, 7:39 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:45 p.m.