Triple

T1431276
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Operation Rolling Thunder E30450 entity
Predicate opposingForce P4567 FINISHED
Object North Vietnamese air defenses
North Vietnamese air defenses were a dense, Soviet- and Chinese-supplied network of anti-aircraft guns, surface-to-air missiles, and radar-directed fighter aircraft that posed a major threat to U.S. air operations during the Vietnam War.
E163741 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: North Vietnamese air defenses | Statement: [Operation Rolling Thunder, opposingForce, North Vietnamese air defenses]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: North Vietnamese air defenses
Context triple: [Operation Rolling Thunder, opposingForce, North Vietnamese air defenses]
  • A. Battle of Khe Sanh
    The Battle of Khe Sanh was a major and protracted siege in early 1968 in which U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese forces defended a remote base against a large-scale North Vietnamese assault, becoming one of the most famous and controversial engagements of the Vietnam War.
  • B. Battle of Xuan Loc
    The Battle of Xuan Loc was the last major engagement of the Vietnam War, where South Vietnamese forces mounted a final, intense defense against the advancing North Vietnamese Army before the fall of Saigon.
  • C. Nguyen Hue Offensive
    The Nguyen Hue Offensive, better known as the Easter Offensive, was a major 1972 North Vietnamese conventional military campaign against South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
  • D. Operation Pierce Arrow air strikes on North Vietnam
    Operation Pierce Arrow air strikes on North Vietnam were the first major U.S. retaliatory bombing raids against North Vietnam in August 1964, marking a significant escalation of American military involvement in the Vietnam War.
  • E. Khe Sanh
    Khe Sanh is a town in Quảng Trị Province, Vietnam, best known as the site of a major and prolonged siege during the Vietnam 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: North Vietnamese air defenses
Triple: [Operation Rolling Thunder, opposingForce, North Vietnamese air defenses]
Generated description
North Vietnamese air defenses were a dense, Soviet- and Chinese-supplied network of anti-aircraft guns, surface-to-air missiles, and radar-directed fighter aircraft that posed a major threat to U.S. air operations during the Vietnam War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: North Vietnamese air defenses
Target entity description: North Vietnamese air defenses were a dense, Soviet- and Chinese-supplied network of anti-aircraft guns, surface-to-air missiles, and radar-directed fighter aircraft that posed a major threat to U.S. air operations during the Vietnam War.
  • A. Battle of Khe Sanh
    The Battle of Khe Sanh was a major and protracted siege in early 1968 in which U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese forces defended a remote base against a large-scale North Vietnamese assault, becoming one of the most famous and controversial engagements of the Vietnam War.
  • B. Battle of Xuan Loc
    The Battle of Xuan Loc was the last major engagement of the Vietnam War, where South Vietnamese forces mounted a final, intense defense against the advancing North Vietnamese Army before the fall of Saigon.
  • C. Nguyen Hue Offensive
    The Nguyen Hue Offensive, better known as the Easter Offensive, was a major 1972 North Vietnamese conventional military campaign against South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
  • D. Operation Pierce Arrow air strikes on North Vietnam
    Operation Pierce Arrow air strikes on North Vietnam were the first major U.S. retaliatory bombing raids against North Vietnam in August 1964, marking a significant escalation of American military involvement in the Vietnam War.
  • E. Khe Sanh
    Khe Sanh is a town in Quảng Trị Province, Vietnam, best known as the site of a major and prolonged siege during the Vietnam 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_69a498fc69ec8190b61722bd4b67c4d2 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c4dc3e2081909ff951fe73db277b completed March 1, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad016bf2608190a675cbd42e474082 completed March 8, 2026, 4:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad0294353081908e29735d1b83f2cc completed March 8, 2026, 5:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad02f6bf288190bcb785762d14787c completed March 8, 2026, 5:02 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8 p.m.