Triple

T10136097
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lord Methuen E226858 entity
Predicate conflict P12 FINISHED
Object Bechuanaland Expedition
The Bechuanaland Expedition was a British military campaign in the mid-1880s aimed at asserting imperial control and restoring order in the Bechuanaland region of southern Africa.
E843294 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: Bechuanaland Expedition | Statement: [Lord Methuen, conflict, Bechuanaland Expedition]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bechuanaland Expedition
Context triple: [Lord Methuen, conflict, Bechuanaland Expedition]
  • A. Congo Expedition
    Congo Expedition is an African rainforest-themed exhibit area at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium featuring species and habitats from the Congo Basin.
  • B. Nimrod Expedition
    The Nimrod Expedition was Ernest Shackleton’s 1907–1909 British Antarctic expedition that made record-setting southern and polar achievements and significantly advanced scientific and geographic knowledge of Antarctica.
  • C. Gordon Relief Expedition
    The Gordon Relief Expedition was a British military mission in 1884–1885 sent up the Nile to attempt to rescue General Charles Gordon and relieve the besieged city of Khartoum during the Mahdist War in Sudan.
  • D. Gaselee Expedition
    The Gaselee Expedition was an international military relief force led by British General Sir Alfred Gaselee in 1900 to lift the siege of foreign legations in Beijing during the Boxer Rebellion.
  • E. Forbes Expedition
    The Forbes Expedition was a 1758 British military campaign during the French and Indian War that successfully captured Fort Duquesne, securing the Ohio Country and paving the way for the founding of Pittsburgh.
  • 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: Bechuanaland Expedition
Triple: [Lord Methuen, conflict, Bechuanaland Expedition]
Generated description
The Bechuanaland Expedition was a British military campaign in the mid-1880s aimed at asserting imperial control and restoring order in the Bechuanaland region of southern Africa.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bechuanaland Expedition
Target entity description: The Bechuanaland Expedition was a British military campaign in the mid-1880s aimed at asserting imperial control and restoring order in the Bechuanaland region of southern Africa.
  • A. Congo Expedition
    Congo Expedition is an African rainforest-themed exhibit area at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium featuring species and habitats from the Congo Basin.
  • B. Nimrod Expedition
    The Nimrod Expedition was Ernest Shackleton’s 1907–1909 British Antarctic expedition that made record-setting southern and polar achievements and significantly advanced scientific and geographic knowledge of Antarctica.
  • C. Gordon Relief Expedition
    The Gordon Relief Expedition was a British military mission in 1884–1885 sent up the Nile to attempt to rescue General Charles Gordon and relieve the besieged city of Khartoum during the Mahdist War in Sudan.
  • D. Gaselee Expedition
    The Gaselee Expedition was an international military relief force led by British General Sir Alfred Gaselee in 1900 to lift the siege of foreign legations in Beijing during the Boxer Rebellion.
  • E. Forbes Expedition
    The Forbes Expedition was a 1758 British military campaign during the French and Indian War that successfully captured Fort Duquesne, securing the Ohio Country and paving the way for the founding of Pittsburgh.
  • 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_69ca8433ec308190b8b25a6fe359c34c completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cde87fae288190bb4f13e1ae90f50a completed April 2, 2026, 3:54 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d2e5e4664081908c1821006bd2f57f completed April 5, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d2e73e4d5081909f0068d3bed583d3 completed April 5, 2026, 10:50 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d2e7eea4d88190a2ec6d22a83934b3 completed April 5, 2026, 10:53 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:06 p.m.