Triple

T4849752
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject West African Frontier Force E108383 entity
Predicate theaterOfOperations P710 FINISHED
Object Cameroons campaign
The Cameroons campaign was a World War I military operation in which Allied forces, including British colonial troops, fought to seize the German colony of Kamerun in West Africa.
E473557 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: Cameroons campaign | Statement: [West African Frontier Force, theaterOfOperations, Cameroons campaign]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cameroons campaign
Context triple: [West African Frontier Force, theaterOfOperations, Cameroons campaign]
  • A. Oriental Province campaign
    The Oriental Province campaign was a major military operation during the Argentine War of Independence aimed at securing control over the Banda Oriental (present-day Uruguay) from Spanish royalist forces.
  • B. Mali War
    The Mali War is an ongoing conflict in the West African nation of Mali involving government forces, separatist rebels, and Islamist militants, marked by insurgency, foreign military interventions, and severe humanitarian impacts.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Benin Expedition of 1897
    The Benin Expedition of 1897 was a British punitive military campaign that led to the violent conquest and looting of the Kingdom of Benin in present-day Nigeria, resulting in the exile of its oba and the dispersal of the famed Benin Bronzes.
  • E. East African campaign
    The East African campaign was a World War II military operation in which Allied forces, including British, Commonwealth, and Free French troops, fought to expel Italian forces from East Africa between 1940 and 1941.
  • 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: Cameroons campaign
Triple: [West African Frontier Force, theaterOfOperations, Cameroons campaign]
Generated description
The Cameroons campaign was a World War I military operation in which Allied forces, including British colonial troops, fought to seize the German colony of Kamerun in West Africa.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cameroons campaign
Target entity description: The Cameroons campaign was a World War I military operation in which Allied forces, including British colonial troops, fought to seize the German colony of Kamerun in West Africa.
  • A. Oriental Province campaign
    The Oriental Province campaign was a major military operation during the Argentine War of Independence aimed at securing control over the Banda Oriental (present-day Uruguay) from Spanish royalist forces.
  • B. Mali War
    The Mali War is an ongoing conflict in the West African nation of Mali involving government forces, separatist rebels, and Islamist militants, marked by insurgency, foreign military interventions, and severe humanitarian impacts.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Benin Expedition of 1897
    The Benin Expedition of 1897 was a British punitive military campaign that led to the violent conquest and looting of the Kingdom of Benin in present-day Nigeria, resulting in the exile of its oba and the dispersal of the famed Benin Bronzes.
  • E. East African campaign
    The East African campaign was a World War II military operation in which Allied forces, including British, Commonwealth, and Free French troops, fought to expel Italian forces from East Africa between 1940 and 1941.
  • 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_69bd440a89548190a5f14ba6da6b97dc completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6d1e5cf08190bd6b6a524748f170 completed March 20, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be5cdafb3481908594ae883c6e9872 completed March 21, 2026, 8:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be5d4f2f908190b305996875f1f956 completed March 21, 2026, 8:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be5dcbb58c8190bbcf75c570720ad6 completed March 21, 2026, 8:58 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:25 p.m.