Triple

T12270389
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Belgian neutrality E292454 entity
Predicate endCause P1400 FINISHED
Object German invasion of Belgium (1914)
The German invasion of Belgium in 1914 was a key early World War I campaign in which Germany violated Belgium’s neutrality to execute the Schlieffen Plan against France, prompting British entry into the war.
E111369 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: German invasion of Belgium (1914) | Statement: [Belgian neutrality, endCause, German invasion of Belgium (1914)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: German invasion of Belgium (1914)
Context triple: [Belgian neutrality, endCause, German invasion of Belgium (1914)]
  • A. Invasion of the Low Countries
    The Invasion of the Low Countries was the May 1940 German offensive that rapidly overran Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg as part of the wider Battle of France in World War II.
  • B. German occupation of Belgium during World War II
    The German occupation of Belgium during World War II was the period from 1940 to 1944 when Nazi Germany controlled and administered Belgium, marked by repression, economic exploitation, resistance activities, and the persecution and deportation of Jews and other targeted groups.
  • C. Battle of Antwerp (1914)
    The Battle of Antwerp (1914) was a major early World War I siege in which German forces captured the heavily fortified Belgian port city of Antwerp after a prolonged defense by Belgian troops supported by British units, including the Royal Naval Division.
  • D. Battle of the Frontiers
    The Battle of the Frontiers was a series of early World War I engagements in August 1914 along the French-German and Belgian borders, where initial clashes between the Allies and Germany set the stage for the subsequent Western Front stalemate.
  • E. French occupation of Belgium
    The French occupation of Belgium refers to the period during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars when French forces controlled and annexed the territory of present-day Belgium, reshaping its political, legal, and social structures.
  • 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: German invasion of Belgium (1914)
Triple: [Belgian neutrality, endCause, German invasion of Belgium (1914)]
Generated description
The German invasion of Belgium in 1914 was a key early World War I campaign in which Germany violated Belgium’s neutrality to execute the Schlieffen Plan against France, prompting British entry into the war.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: German invasion of Belgium (1914)
Target entity description: The German invasion of Belgium in 1914 was a key early World War I campaign in which Germany violated Belgium’s neutrality to execute the Schlieffen Plan against France, prompting British entry into the war.
  • A. Invasion of the Low Countries
    The Invasion of the Low Countries was the May 1940 German offensive that rapidly overran Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg as part of the wider Battle of France in World War II.
  • B. German occupation of Belgium during World War II
    The German occupation of Belgium during World War II was the period from 1940 to 1944 when Nazi Germany controlled and administered Belgium, marked by repression, economic exploitation, resistance activities, and the persecution and deportation of Jews and other targeted groups.
  • C. Battle of Antwerp (1914)
    The Battle of Antwerp (1914) was a major early World War I siege in which German forces captured the heavily fortified Belgian port city of Antwerp after a prolonged defense by Belgian troops supported by British units, including the Royal Naval Division.
  • D. Battle of the Frontiers chosen
    The Battle of the Frontiers was a series of early World War I engagements in August 1914 along the French-German and Belgian borders, where initial clashes between the Allies and Germany set the stage for the subsequent Western Front stalemate.
  • E. French occupation of Belgium
    The French occupation of Belgium refers to the period during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars when French forces controlled and annexed the territory of present-day Belgium, reshaping its political, legal, and social structures.
  • 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_69d6ab6856488190b5d31178d5015f8e completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d91cdea6e881908e13f8259bad6ddc completed April 10, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f61e6981b48190a0fc5a571c425be1 completed May 2, 2026, 3:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f622de74f0819096c5f5bf6f938fe7 completed May 2, 2026, 4:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f62379746c8190bc9da48775b86dfa completed May 2, 2026, 4:16 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:52 p.m.