Triple

T830762
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Verdun E17958 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Robert Nivelle
Robert Nivelle was a French general of World War I best known for his rapid rise to command and for orchestrating large-scale offensives, most notably the ill-fated Nivelle Offensive of 1917.
E111397 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: Robert Nivelle | Statement: [Battle of Verdun, commander, Robert Nivelle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Nivelle
Context triple: [Battle of Verdun, commander, Robert Nivelle]
  • A. Louis Franchet d'Espèrey
    Louis Franchet d'Espèrey was a prominent French general of World War I, best known for his decisive leadership on the Macedonian front that contributed to the collapse of the Central Powers in the Balkans.
  • B. Ferdinand Foch
    Ferdinand Foch was a French general who served as Supreme Allied Commander during the final phase of World War I and played a key role in securing the Allied victory.
  • C. Maurice Gamelin
    Maurice Gamelin was a French army general who served as commander-in-chief of the French forces at the outset of World War II and is often associated with France’s rapid defeat in 1940.
  • D. Patrice de MacMahon
    Patrice de MacMahon was a 19th-century French army marshal and conservative statesman who served as President of the French Third Republic from 1873 to 1879.
  • E. Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
    Jean de Lattre de Tassigny was a prominent French Army general of World War II who became one of France’s most celebrated military leaders and represented the country at the German Instrument of Surrender in 1945.
  • 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: Robert Nivelle
Triple: [Battle of Verdun, commander, Robert Nivelle]
Generated description
Robert Nivelle was a French general of World War I best known for his rapid rise to command and for orchestrating large-scale offensives, most notably the ill-fated Nivelle Offensive of 1917.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Nivelle
Target entity description: Robert Nivelle was a French general of World War I best known for his rapid rise to command and for orchestrating large-scale offensives, most notably the ill-fated Nivelle Offensive of 1917.
  • A. Louis Franchet d'Espèrey
    Louis Franchet d'Espèrey was a prominent French general of World War I, best known for his decisive leadership on the Macedonian front that contributed to the collapse of the Central Powers in the Balkans.
  • B. Ferdinand Foch
    Ferdinand Foch was a French general who served as Supreme Allied Commander during the final phase of World War I and played a key role in securing the Allied victory.
  • C. Maurice Gamelin
    Maurice Gamelin was a French army general who served as commander-in-chief of the French forces at the outset of World War II and is often associated with France’s rapid defeat in 1940.
  • D. Patrice de MacMahon
    Patrice de MacMahon was a 19th-century French army marshal and conservative statesman who served as President of the French Third Republic from 1873 to 1879.
  • E. Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
    Jean de Lattre de Tassigny was a prominent French Army general of World War II who became one of France’s most celebrated military leaders and represented the country at the German Instrument of Surrender in 1945.
  • 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_69a4937c9c188190aaa216f6b466f452 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4abb384988190949d2df65662f76d completed March 1, 2026, 9:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a826cf14808190a4afc2a7b6c66845 completed March 4, 2026, 12:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a83432d9188190aa11be0f29dfdeaa completed March 4, 2026, 1:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a834bb8ff481909b6aa00274d22598 completed March 4, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.