Triple

T14797648
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Second Franco-Dahomean War E347820 entity
Predicate relatedEvent P37 FINISHED
Object French conquest of West Africa
The French conquest of West Africa was a late 19th- and early 20th-century imperial expansion in which France used military campaigns and treaties to subjugate and colonize vast territories across the western Sahel and coastal regions, forming the core of French West Africa.
E1121152 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: French conquest of West Africa | Statement: [Second Franco-Dahomean War, relatedEvent, French conquest of West Africa]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: French conquest of West Africa
Context triple: [Second Franco-Dahomean War, relatedEvent, French conquest of West Africa]
  • A. French conquest of Gorée
    The French conquest of Gorée was a 1677 naval and military operation in which France seized the strategically important island of Gorée off the coast of present-day Senegal, helping establish French dominance in the Atlantic slave trade.
  • B. French conquest of Algeria
    The French conquest of Algeria was a 19th-century military campaign and colonization process through which France invaded, subdued, and incorporated Algerian territory into its colonial empire, sparking long-lasting resistance and reshaping North African history.
  • C. Moroccan invasion of Songhai
    The Moroccan invasion of Songhai was a late 16th-century military campaign in which Saadian Morocco used gunpowder-armed forces to conquer and ultimately dismantle the powerful Songhai Empire in West Africa.
  • D. Conquest of Algeria (16th century)
    The Conquest of Algeria (16th century) was the series of campaigns through which the Ottoman Empire established control over the central Maghreb, turning Algiers into a key Ottoman regency and corsair stronghold in the western Mediterranean.
  • E. First Franco-Dahomean War
    The First Franco-Dahomean War was an 1890 colonial conflict in West Africa between France and the Kingdom of Dahomey that marked the beginning of France’s military conquest of the region.
  • 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: French conquest of West Africa
Triple: [Second Franco-Dahomean War, relatedEvent, French conquest of West Africa]
Generated description
The French conquest of West Africa was a late 19th- and early 20th-century imperial expansion in which France used military campaigns and treaties to subjugate and colonize vast territories across the western Sahel and coastal regions, forming the core of French West Africa.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: French conquest of West Africa
Target entity description: The French conquest of West Africa was a late 19th- and early 20th-century imperial expansion in which France used military campaigns and treaties to subjugate and colonize vast territories across the western Sahel and coastal regions, forming the core of French West Africa.
  • A. French conquest of Gorée
    The French conquest of Gorée was a 1677 naval and military operation in which France seized the strategically important island of Gorée off the coast of present-day Senegal, helping establish French dominance in the Atlantic slave trade.
  • B. French conquest of Algeria
    The French conquest of Algeria was a 19th-century military campaign and colonization process through which France invaded, subdued, and incorporated Algerian territory into its colonial empire, sparking long-lasting resistance and reshaping North African history.
  • C. Moroccan invasion of Songhai
    The Moroccan invasion of Songhai was a late 16th-century military campaign in which Saadian Morocco used gunpowder-armed forces to conquer and ultimately dismantle the powerful Songhai Empire in West Africa.
  • D. Conquest of Algeria (16th century)
    The Conquest of Algeria (16th century) was the series of campaigns through which the Ottoman Empire established control over the central Maghreb, turning Algiers into a key Ottoman regency and corsair stronghold in the western Mediterranean.
  • E. First Franco-Dahomean War
    The First Franco-Dahomean War was an 1890 colonial conflict in West Africa between France and the Kingdom of Dahomey that marked the beginning of France’s military conquest of the region.
  • 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_69fe24c0beb0819081a124479a849bb6 completed May 8, 2026, 6 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe2c102f8c8190b9ed567fd2946ed2 completed May 8, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe2d898ae08190be30b5a12937a6a4 completed May 8, 2026, 6:38 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:31 a.m.