Triple

T4120534
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Vichy French forces E92600 entity
Predicate engagedIn P149 FINISHED
Object Battle of Mers-el-Kébir
The Battle of Mers-el-Kébir was a 1940 World War II naval engagement off the coast of French Algeria in which the British Royal Navy attacked the French fleet to prevent it from falling into German hands.
E415812 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 Mers-el-Kébir | Statement: [Vichy French forces, engagedIn, Battle of Mers-el-Kébir]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Mers-el-Kébir
Context triple: [Vichy French forces, engagedIn, Battle of Mers-el-Kébir]
  • A. Battle of Port Mahon
    The Battle of Port Mahon was a 1756 naval engagement in the Seven Years' War in which a French fleet defeated the British near Minorca, leading to the controversial court-martial and execution of Admiral John Byng.
  • B. Battle of Cape Matapan
    The Battle of Cape Matapan was a major World War II naval engagement in March 1941 in which British and Allied forces decisively defeated the Italian fleet in the Mediterranean.
  • C. Battle of Quiberon Bay
    The Battle of Quiberon Bay was a decisive 1759 naval engagement in which the British Royal Navy shattered the French fleet off the coast of Brittany, securing British control of the seas and thwarting a planned invasion of Britain.
  • D. Battle of the Mediterranean
    The Battle of the Mediterranean was a major World War II theater of naval, air, and land operations between the Axis and Allied powers for control of the Mediterranean Sea and its vital supply routes.
  • E. Battle of the River Plate
    The Battle of the River Plate was a World War II naval engagement in December 1939 in which British cruisers confronted and ultimately forced the scuttling of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee off the coast of Uruguay.
  • 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 Mers-el-Kébir
Triple: [Vichy French forces, engagedIn, Battle of Mers-el-Kébir]
Generated description
The Battle of Mers-el-Kébir was a 1940 World War II naval engagement off the coast of French Algeria in which the British Royal Navy attacked the French fleet to prevent it from falling into German hands.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Mers-el-Kébir
Target entity description: The Battle of Mers-el-Kébir was a 1940 World War II naval engagement off the coast of French Algeria in which the British Royal Navy attacked the French fleet to prevent it from falling into German hands.
  • A. Battle of Port Mahon
    The Battle of Port Mahon was a 1756 naval engagement in the Seven Years' War in which a French fleet defeated the British near Minorca, leading to the controversial court-martial and execution of Admiral John Byng.
  • B. Battle of Cape Matapan
    The Battle of Cape Matapan was a major World War II naval engagement in March 1941 in which British and Allied forces decisively defeated the Italian fleet in the Mediterranean.
  • C. Battle of Quiberon Bay
    The Battle of Quiberon Bay was a decisive 1759 naval engagement in which the British Royal Navy shattered the French fleet off the coast of Brittany, securing British control of the seas and thwarting a planned invasion of Britain.
  • D. Battle of the Mediterranean
    The Battle of the Mediterranean was a major World War II theater of naval, air, and land operations between the Axis and Allied powers for control of the Mediterranean Sea and its vital supply routes.
  • E. Battle of the River Plate
    The Battle of the River Plate was a World War II naval engagement in December 1939 in which British cruisers confronted and ultimately forced the scuttling of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee off the coast of Uruguay.
  • 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_69aed9685f70819086932777aec8d959 completed March 9, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af0203b8c88190b08dd64800a37168 completed March 9, 2026, 5:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b576ae8ef08190ba2adcbd2bbe8d35 completed March 14, 2026, 2:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5778a01e48190acb14d544cd53a63 completed March 14, 2026, 2:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b577f2d46c8190a66b2b536088633c completed March 14, 2026, 3 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:41 p.m.