Triple

T704874
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Siege of Tobruk E14077 entity
Predicate nickname P55 FINISHED
Object Rats of Tobruk
The Rats of Tobruk were the Allied soldiers, largely Australian, who defiantly held the Libyan port of Tobruk against Axis forces during a prolonged World War II siege.
E88026 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: Rats of Tobruk | Statement: [Siege of Tobruk, nickname, Rats of Tobruk]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rats of Tobruk
Context triple: [Siege of Tobruk, nickname, Rats of Tobruk]
  • A. The Guns of Navarone
    The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 World War II adventure film about a commando team sent to destroy massive German guns threatening Allied ships in the Aegean Sea.
  • B. Twelve O’Clock High
    Twelve O’Clock High is a classic 1949 World War II drama film about the psychological strain on U.S. Army Air Force bomber crews, widely regarded as one of Gregory Peck’s most powerful performances.
  • C. Operation Postern
    Operation Postern was a World War II Allied amphibious assault and subsequent campaign to capture Lae in New Guinea as part of the broader strategy to neutralize Japanese bases in the Southwest Pacific.
  • D. Defense of the Reich
    Defense of the Reich was the German Luftwaffe’s World War II air defense campaign aimed at protecting Nazi Germany from Allied strategic bombing.
  • E. Operation Gomorrah
    Operation Gomorrah was a series of devastating Allied bombing raids on Hamburg in 1943 that caused massive destruction and civilian casualties.
  • 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: Rats of Tobruk
Triple: [Siege of Tobruk, nickname, Rats of Tobruk]
Generated description
The Rats of Tobruk were the Allied soldiers, largely Australian, who defiantly held the Libyan port of Tobruk against Axis forces during a prolonged World War II siege.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rats of Tobruk
Target entity description: The Rats of Tobruk were the Allied soldiers, largely Australian, who defiantly held the Libyan port of Tobruk against Axis forces during a prolonged World War II siege.
  • A. The Guns of Navarone
    The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 World War II adventure film about a commando team sent to destroy massive German guns threatening Allied ships in the Aegean Sea.
  • B. Twelve O’Clock High
    Twelve O’Clock High is a classic 1949 World War II drama film about the psychological strain on U.S. Army Air Force bomber crews, widely regarded as one of Gregory Peck’s most powerful performances.
  • C. Operation Postern
    Operation Postern was a World War II Allied amphibious assault and subsequent campaign to capture Lae in New Guinea as part of the broader strategy to neutralize Japanese bases in the Southwest Pacific.
  • D. Defense of the Reich
    Defense of the Reich was the German Luftwaffe’s World War II air defense campaign aimed at protecting Nazi Germany from Allied strategic bombing.
  • E. Operation Gomorrah
    Operation Gomorrah was a series of devastating Allied bombing raids on Hamburg in 1943 that caused massive destruction and civilian casualties.
  • 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_69a493494ec48190ae6751683625a9ba completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a544e3608190ac315c7aa9f88e7e completed March 1, 2026, 8:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a64a5618348190b8ec2c7d6bd06e2b completed March 3, 2026, 2:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a64ab831308190923f1e95b9311c5a completed March 3, 2026, 2:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a64b1ff9548190bcffcc04f2365aaa completed March 3, 2026, 2:44 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.