Triple

T4849754
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject West African Frontier Force E108383 entity
Predicate theaterOfOperations P710 FINISHED
Object German Kamerun campaign
The German Kamerun campaign was a World War I military operation in which Allied forces, including British, French, and Belgian troops, invaded and eventually conquered the German colony of Kamerun in West Africa.
E476628 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: German Kamerun campaign | Statement: [West African Frontier Force, theaterOfOperations, German Kamerun campaign]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: German Kamerun campaign
Context triple: [West African Frontier Force, theaterOfOperations, German Kamerun campaign]
  • A. German Togoland campaign
    The German Togoland campaign was a World War I military operation in which Allied forces, primarily British and French colonial troops, invaded and occupied the German colony of Togoland in West Africa in 1914.
  • B. South-West Africa Campaign
    The South-West Africa Campaign was a World War I military operation in which South African forces invaded and defeated German colonial rule in present-day Namibia.
  • C. Fashoda Incident
    The Fashoda Incident was an 1898 imperial confrontation between Britain and France in Sudan that nearly triggered war and symbolized the climax of their colonial rivalry in Africa.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: German Kamerun campaign
Triple: [West African Frontier Force, theaterOfOperations, German Kamerun campaign]
Generated description
The German Kamerun campaign was a World War I military operation in which Allied forces, including British, French, and Belgian troops, invaded and eventually conquered the German colony of Kamerun in West Africa.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: German Kamerun campaign
Target entity description: The German Kamerun campaign was a World War I military operation in which Allied forces, including British, French, and Belgian troops, invaded and eventually conquered the German colony of Kamerun in West Africa.
  • A. German Togoland campaign
    The German Togoland campaign was a World War I military operation in which Allied forces, primarily British and French colonial troops, invaded and occupied the German colony of Togoland in West Africa in 1914.
  • B. South-West Africa Campaign
    The South-West Africa Campaign was a World War I military operation in which South African forces invaded and defeated German colonial rule in present-day Namibia.
  • C. Fashoda Incident
    The Fashoda Incident was an 1898 imperial confrontation between Britain and France in Sudan that nearly triggered war and symbolized the climax of their colonial rivalry in Africa.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69be67da14d48190a994a11eb7a674b5 completed March 21, 2026, 9:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be6864608c8190af22cc3ed949e1b9 completed March 21, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be68e5b4e88190b7cd53d495f18a0f completed March 21, 2026, 9:46 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:25 p.m.