Triple

T14927488
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Portuguese–Mamluk naval war E372168 entity
Predicate significantEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Portuguese expedition to the Red Sea
The Portuguese expedition to the Red Sea was a 16th-century naval campaign by Portugal aimed at challenging Mamluk and Ottoman control of key Red Sea trade routes and undermining Muslim dominance over the spice trade.
E1127290 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: Portuguese expedition to the Red Sea | Statement: [Portuguese–Mamluk naval war, significantEvent, Portuguese expedition to the Red Sea]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Portuguese expedition to the Red Sea
Context triple: [Portuguese–Mamluk naval war, significantEvent, Portuguese expedition to the Red Sea]
  • A. Portuguese expedition to Ethiopia (1541–1542)
    The Portuguese expedition to Ethiopia (1541–1542) was a military campaign in which a small Portuguese force, led by Cristóvão da Gama, aided the Ethiopian Empire against the Muslim Adal Sultanate during the Ethiopian–Adal war.
  • B. Portuguese expedition of 1381–1382
    The Portuguese expedition of 1381–1382 was an English-led military campaign to the Iberian Peninsula during the late 14th-century conflicts over the Portuguese and Castilian thrones.
  • C. Loaísa expedition
    The Loaísa expedition was a 16th-century Spanish voyage led by García Jofre de Loaísa that attempted to reach the Spice Islands via the Strait of Magellan, becoming one of the earliest major Pacific expeditions after Magellan.
  • D. Portuguese expansion into North Africa
    Portuguese expansion into North Africa was a series of early 15th- and 16th-century military and maritime campaigns through which Portugal seized key coastal cities and fortresses across the Maghreb, laying foundations for its wider overseas empire.
  • E. Second Portuguese India Armada
    The Second Portuguese India Armada was a 1500–1501 naval expedition led by Pedro Álvares Cabral that both reinforced Portugal’s presence in the Indian Ocean and resulted in the European discovery of Brazil.
  • 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: Portuguese expedition to the Red Sea
Triple: [Portuguese–Mamluk naval war, significantEvent, Portuguese expedition to the Red Sea]
Generated description
The Portuguese expedition to the Red Sea was a 16th-century naval campaign by Portugal aimed at challenging Mamluk and Ottoman control of key Red Sea trade routes and undermining Muslim dominance over the spice trade.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Portuguese expedition to the Red Sea
Target entity description: The Portuguese expedition to the Red Sea was a 16th-century naval campaign by Portugal aimed at challenging Mamluk and Ottoman control of key Red Sea trade routes and undermining Muslim dominance over the spice trade.
  • A. Portuguese expedition to Ethiopia (1541–1542)
    The Portuguese expedition to Ethiopia (1541–1542) was a military campaign in which a small Portuguese force, led by Cristóvão da Gama, aided the Ethiopian Empire against the Muslim Adal Sultanate during the Ethiopian–Adal war.
  • B. Portuguese expedition of 1381–1382
    The Portuguese expedition of 1381–1382 was an English-led military campaign to the Iberian Peninsula during the late 14th-century conflicts over the Portuguese and Castilian thrones.
  • C. Loaísa expedition
    The Loaísa expedition was a 16th-century Spanish voyage led by García Jofre de Loaísa that attempted to reach the Spice Islands via the Strait of Magellan, becoming one of the earliest major Pacific expeditions after Magellan.
  • D. Portuguese expansion into North Africa
    Portuguese expansion into North Africa was a series of early 15th- and 16th-century military and maritime campaigns through which Portugal seized key coastal cities and fortresses across the Maghreb, laying foundations for its wider overseas empire.
  • E. Second Portuguese India Armada
    The Second Portuguese India Armada was a 1500–1501 naval expedition led by Pedro Álvares Cabral that both reinforced Portugal’s presence in the Indian Ocean and resulted in the European discovery of Brazil.
  • 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_69d85cc9da0c81908d583ca3f63a3908 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded634e67881909daec9eaef188d09 completed April 15, 2026, 12:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe72c4f9c481909642efccb29f71d4 completed May 8, 2026, 11:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe744b9c048190ae2a64da53d8ffac completed May 8, 2026, 11:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe74d510808190a2379a2380fc327e completed May 8, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:35 a.m.