Triple

T1256290
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Operation Barkhane E12399 entity
Predicate notableCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object General Thierry Burkhard
General Thierry Burkhard is a French Army officer who served as Chief of the Defence Staff and played a leading role in France’s modern overseas military operations, including counterterrorism efforts in the Sahel.
E158878 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: General Thierry Burkhard | Statement: [Operation Barkhane, notableCommander, General Thierry Burkhard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: General Thierry Burkhard
Context triple: [Operation Barkhane, notableCommander, General Thierry Burkhard]
  • A. General Pierre de Villiers
    General Pierre de Villiers is a French Army officer who served as Chief of the Defence Staff and played a leading role in modern French military operations, including counterterrorism efforts in the Sahel.
  • B. General Paul Hausser
    General Paul Hausser was a high-ranking German Waffen-SS commander during World War II, known for leading SS panzer formations on the Eastern and Western Fronts.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny
    Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny was a French Army officer and the only son of Marshal Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, killed in action during the First Indochina War and later symbolizing the sacrifice of France’s postwar generation.
  • E. Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot
    Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot was a French general best known for his prominent but ultimately unsuccessful leadership during the Franco-Prussian War.
  • 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: General Thierry Burkhard
Triple: [Operation Barkhane, notableCommander, General Thierry Burkhard]
Generated description
General Thierry Burkhard is a French Army officer who served as Chief of the Defence Staff and played a leading role in France’s modern overseas military operations, including counterterrorism efforts in the Sahel.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: General Thierry Burkhard
Target entity description: General Thierry Burkhard is a French Army officer who served as Chief of the Defence Staff and played a leading role in France’s modern overseas military operations, including counterterrorism efforts in the Sahel.
  • A. General Pierre de Villiers
    General Pierre de Villiers is a French Army officer who served as Chief of the Defence Staff and played a leading role in modern French military operations, including counterterrorism efforts in the Sahel.
  • B. General Paul Hausser
    General Paul Hausser was a high-ranking German Waffen-SS commander during World War II, known for leading SS panzer formations on the Eastern and Western Fronts.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny
    Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny was a French Army officer and the only son of Marshal Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, killed in action during the First Indochina War and later symbolizing the sacrifice of France’s postwar generation.
  • E. Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot
    Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot was a French general best known for his prominent but ultimately unsuccessful leadership during the Franco-Prussian War.
  • 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_69a4933352e08190ac617291985e76c0 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bfa726548190911b4022dc1be3c3 completed March 1, 2026, 10:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acd470b044819087e0adfd137ff037 completed March 8, 2026, 1:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acd7aa69d8819084e154ac82a9ff3c completed March 8, 2026, 1:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acd7fc5410819092a0c83c89a7c397 completed March 8, 2026, 1:59 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.