Triple

T730887
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject War of Devolution E14826 entity
Predicate significantEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Siege of Douai (1667)
The Siege of Douai (1667) was a key French operation during Louis XIV’s early expansionist campaigns, in which French forces captured the fortified town of Douai from the Spanish Netherlands.
E91221 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: Siege of Douai (1667) | Statement: [War of Devolution, significantEvent, Siege of Douai (1667)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Siege of Douai (1667)
Context triple: [War of Devolution, significantEvent, Siege of Douai (1667)]
  • A. Siege of Tournai (1667)
    The Siege of Tournai (1667) was a key early French victory under Louis XIV during his invasion of the Spanish Netherlands in the War of Devolution.
  • B. Siege of Lille (1667)
    The Siege of Lille (1667) was a major French offensive operation during Louis XIV’s early wars that secured the strategic Flemish city of Lille from Spanish control.
  • C. Siege of Tournai (1709)
    The Siege of Tournai (1709) was a major Allied operation during the War of the Spanish Succession in which Marlborough and Prince Eugene captured the strongly fortified city of Tournai from French control.
  • D. Siege of Namur (1692)
    The Siege of Namur (1692) was a major French victory under Louis XIV and Vauban, in which French forces captured the strategic fortress city of Namur from the Grand Alliance during the Nine Years' War.
  • E. Siege of Ostend
    The Siege of Ostend was a protracted and brutal engagement during the Eighty Years' War (1601–1604) in which Spanish forces besieged the Dutch-held coastal city of Ostend, resulting in massive casualties and becoming one of the longest and bloodiest sieges in European history.
  • 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: Siege of Douai (1667)
Triple: [War of Devolution, significantEvent, Siege of Douai (1667)]
Generated description
The Siege of Douai (1667) was a key French operation during Louis XIV’s early expansionist campaigns, in which French forces captured the fortified town of Douai from the Spanish Netherlands.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Siege of Douai (1667)
Target entity description: The Siege of Douai (1667) was a key French operation during Louis XIV’s early expansionist campaigns, in which French forces captured the fortified town of Douai from the Spanish Netherlands.
  • A. Siege of Tournai (1667)
    The Siege of Tournai (1667) was a key early French victory under Louis XIV during his invasion of the Spanish Netherlands in the War of Devolution.
  • B. Siege of Lille (1667)
    The Siege of Lille (1667) was a major French offensive operation during Louis XIV’s early wars that secured the strategic Flemish city of Lille from Spanish control.
  • C. Siege of Tournai (1709)
    The Siege of Tournai (1709) was a major Allied operation during the War of the Spanish Succession in which Marlborough and Prince Eugene captured the strongly fortified city of Tournai from French control.
  • D. Siege of Namur (1692)
    The Siege of Namur (1692) was a major French victory under Louis XIV and Vauban, in which French forces captured the strategic fortress city of Namur from the Grand Alliance during the Nine Years' War.
  • E. Siege of Ostend
    The Siege of Ostend was a protracted and brutal engagement during the Eighty Years' War (1601–1604) in which Spanish forces besieged the Dutch-held coastal city of Ostend, resulting in massive casualties and becoming one of the longest and bloodiest sieges in European history.
  • 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_69a4934d9930819099eed80096b0597d completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a5c40b6481909db9efd7310850b3 completed March 1, 2026, 8:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a6666ebf2c8190b0b0f1b9aa8ac12d completed March 3, 2026, 4:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a6686770708190952846f9549ecf89 completed March 3, 2026, 4:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a668dd28b081909501f2bd68b724c7 completed March 3, 2026, 4:51 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.