Triple
T5403953
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Raphael Semmes |
E120845
|
entity |
| Predicate | engagement |
P1256
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Battle of Cherbourg
The Battle of Cherbourg was an 1864 American Civil War naval engagement off the coast of France in which the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama was sunk by the Union warship USS Kearsarge.
|
E517786
|
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 Cherbourg | Statement: [Raphael Semmes, engagement, Battle of Cherbourg]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Cherbourg Context triple: [Raphael Semmes, engagement, Battle of Cherbourg]
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A.
Battle of Cherbourg
The Battle of Cherbourg was a World War II engagement in June 1944 in which Allied forces captured the vital French port of Cherbourg from German control shortly after the Normandy landings.
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B.
Battle of Villers-Bocage
The Battle of Villers-Bocage was a 1944 World War II engagement in Normandy, France, best known for a dramatic German tank ambush that temporarily halted a British armored advance shortly after D-Day.
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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.
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D.
Battle of Sainte-Foy
The Battle of Sainte-Foy was a major 1760 engagement of the Seven Years' War in which French forces temporarily recaptured Quebec City from the British, reversing the outcome of the earlier Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
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E.
Battle of St. Quentin
The Battle of St. Quentin was a major 1557 clash of the Italian Wars in which Spanish-Habsburg forces decisively defeated the French army in northern France, significantly weakening French power.
- 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 Cherbourg Triple: [Raphael Semmes, engagement, Battle of Cherbourg]
Generated description
The Battle of Cherbourg was an 1864 American Civil War naval engagement off the coast of France in which the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama was sunk by the Union warship USS Kearsarge.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Cherbourg Target entity description: The Battle of Cherbourg was an 1864 American Civil War naval engagement off the coast of France in which the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama was sunk by the Union warship USS Kearsarge.
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A.
Battle of Cherbourg
The Battle of Cherbourg was a World War II engagement in June 1944 in which Allied forces captured the vital French port of Cherbourg from German control shortly after the Normandy landings.
-
B.
Battle of Villers-Bocage
The Battle of Villers-Bocage was a 1944 World War II engagement in Normandy, France, best known for a dramatic German tank ambush that temporarily halted a British armored advance shortly after D-Day.
-
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 Sainte-Foy
The Battle of Sainte-Foy was a major 1760 engagement of the Seven Years' War in which French forces temporarily recaptured Quebec City from the British, reversing the outcome of the earlier Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
-
E.
Battle of St. Quentin
The Battle of St. Quentin was a major 1557 clash of the Italian Wars in which Spanish-Habsburg forces decisively defeated the French army in northern France, significantly weakening French power.
- 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_69bd46391c0c81909fa484446732b6a3 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd8774cd8881909b3437ba02018444 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 5:44 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bf339037b4819084423826b7252002 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 12:10 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69bf34fccbd88190a8e32ccaa86b72e8 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 12:17 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69bf35570404819090e553b7921c4cb8 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 12:18 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:04 p.m.