Triple

T14797623
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Second Franco-Dahomean War E347820 entity
Predicate commandedBy P1407 FINISHED
Object Alfred-Amédée Dodds
Alfred-Amédée Dodds was a French general of Senegalese origin best known for leading colonial military campaigns in West Africa during the late 19th century.
E1123127 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: Alfred-Amédée Dodds | Statement: [Second Franco-Dahomean War, commandedBy, Alfred-Amédée Dodds]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred-Amédée Dodds
Context triple: [Second Franco-Dahomean War, commandedBy, Alfred-Amédée Dodds]
  • A. Alfred Bertrand
    Alfred Bertrand was a Swiss explorer, geographer, and philanthropist known for his travels in Africa and contributions to geographical societies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Edward Le Brocq
    Edward Le Brocq was a British-born Australian journalist and music critic best known for his long-running “Ariel” column in Melbourne’s The Argus newspaper in the early 20th century.
  • C. Edward Le Brocq
    Edward Le Brocq was a notable writer and columnist in the Norman language Jèrriais, recognized for his influential contributions to Jersey’s literary and cultural heritage.
  • D. Edmond T. Gréville
    Edmond T. Gréville was a French film director and screenwriter known for his stylish, often melodramatic works in 1930s and 1940s European cinema.
  • E. Gilbert Durand
    Gilbert Durand was a French philosopher and anthropologist best known for his influential work on the theory of symbols and the anthropology of the imaginary.
  • 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: Alfred-Amédée Dodds
Triple: [Second Franco-Dahomean War, commandedBy, Alfred-Amédée Dodds]
Generated description
Alfred-Amédée Dodds was a French general of Senegalese origin best known for leading colonial military campaigns in West Africa during the late 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred-Amédée Dodds
Target entity description: Alfred-Amédée Dodds was a French general of Senegalese origin best known for leading colonial military campaigns in West Africa during the late 19th century.
  • A. Alfred Bertrand
    Alfred Bertrand was a Swiss explorer, geographer, and philanthropist known for his travels in Africa and contributions to geographical societies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Edward Le Brocq
    Edward Le Brocq was a British-born Australian journalist and music critic best known for his long-running “Ariel” column in Melbourne’s The Argus newspaper in the early 20th century.
  • C. Edward Le Brocq
    Edward Le Brocq was a notable writer and columnist in the Norman language Jèrriais, recognized for his influential contributions to Jersey’s literary and cultural heritage.
  • D. Edmond T. Gréville
    Edmond T. Gréville was a French film director and screenwriter known for his stylish, often melodramatic works in 1930s and 1940s European cinema.
  • E. Gilbert Durand
    Gilbert Durand was a French philosopher and anthropologist best known for his influential work on the theory of symbols and the anthropology of the imaginary.
  • 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_69d822ea8b7c819097dfadf3d45545e6 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69decd6131f08190885f1d27b4bfac7a completed April 14, 2026, 11:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe64f6c6148190941b05d06d4dc54d completed May 8, 2026, 10:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe65c9ad548190917ff40ffbbe38f9 completed May 8, 2026, 10:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe668a00c08190a7b10264d49d097f completed May 8, 2026, 10:41 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:31 a.m.