Triple
T731831
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Battle of Gazala |
E14846
|
entity |
| Predicate | front |
P1699
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Western Desert Front
The Western Desert Front was a major World War II theater in North Africa where Axis and Allied forces fought a mobile desert campaign across Libya and Egypt.
|
E25149
|
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: Western Desert Front | Statement: [Battle of Gazala, front, Western Desert Front]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Western Desert Front Context triple: [Battle of Gazala, front, Western Desert Front]
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A.
North African campaign
The North African campaign was a major World War II theater in which Allied and Axis forces fought for control of North Africa’s deserts and vital Mediterranean supply routes between 1940 and 1943.
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B.
Western Desert
The Western Desert is a sparsely populated arid region in northeastern Africa, primarily in Egypt and Libya, that was a major theater of combat during the North African Campaign of World War II.
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C.
Southwestern Front
The Southwestern Front was a major Soviet Red Army formation that conducted key operations on the Eastern Front during World War II, particularly in Ukraine and the southern sector against Nazi Germany.
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D.
Tunisian campaign
The Tunisian campaign was the final phase of the North African fighting in World War II, in which Allied forces defeated Axis troops in Tunisia in 1943, leading to the surrender of large German and Italian forces.
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E.
El Alamein
El Alamein is a coastal town in northern Egypt best known as the site of pivotal World War II battles between Allied and Axis forces in North Africa.
- 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: Western Desert Front Triple: [Battle of Gazala, front, Western Desert Front]
Generated description
The Western Desert Front was a major World War II theater in North Africa where Axis and Allied forces fought a mobile desert campaign across Libya and Egypt.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Western Desert Front Target entity description: The Western Desert Front was a major World War II theater in North Africa where Axis and Allied forces fought a mobile desert campaign across Libya and Egypt.
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A.
North African campaign
The North African campaign was a major World War II theater in which Allied and Axis forces fought for control of North Africa’s deserts and vital Mediterranean supply routes between 1940 and 1943.
-
B.
Western Desert
chosen
The Western Desert is a sparsely populated arid region in northeastern Africa, primarily in Egypt and Libya, that was a major theater of combat during the North African Campaign of World War II.
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C.
Southwestern Front
The Southwestern Front was a major Soviet Red Army formation that conducted key operations on the Eastern Front during World War II, particularly in Ukraine and the southern sector against Nazi Germany.
-
D.
Tunisian campaign
The Tunisian campaign was the final phase of the North African fighting in World War II, in which Allied forces defeated Axis troops in Tunisia in 1943, leading to the surrender of large German and Italian forces.
-
E.
El Alamein
El Alamein is a coastal town in northern Egypt best known as the site of pivotal World War II battles between Allied and Axis forces in North Africa.
- F. None of above.
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_69a4a5d5a6b48190a2c81bfc3c6faa25 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:47 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a7c00751dc8190ad1ac6885341f799 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 5:15 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a7c0716e708190b907502b17b671f8 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 5:17 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a7c0d166ac819089b683e7cee92043 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 5:19 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.