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]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.