Triple

T15251109
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Portuguese capture of Tangier E364518 entity
Predicate followedBy P78 FINISHED
Object Portuguese occupation of Tangier
The Portuguese occupation of Tangier was a period from the late 15th to the mid-17th century during which Portugal controlled the strategically vital North African port city, using it as a military and commercial outpost on the Strait of Gibraltar.
E364518 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 occupation of Tangier | Statement: [Portuguese capture of Tangier, followedBy, Portuguese occupation of Tangier]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Portuguese occupation of Tangier
Context triple: [Portuguese capture of Tangier, followedBy, Portuguese occupation of Tangier]
  • A. Portuguese capture of Tangier
    The Portuguese capture of Tangier was a 15th-century military campaign in which Portugal sought to expand its North African holdings by seizing the strategic port city of Tangier from Muslim rule.
  • B. Portuguese occupation of Muscat
    The Portuguese occupation of Muscat was a period in the 16th and 17th centuries when the Portuguese Empire controlled the strategic Omani port city as part of its Indian Ocean trading network.
  • C. English occupation of Tangier
    The English occupation of Tangier was a brief 17th-century period during which England controlled the strategically important North African port city, using it as a naval base and trading outpost before abandoning it due to military and financial pressures.
  • D. Conquest of Ceuta
    The Conquest of Ceuta was the 1415 Portuguese capture of the North African city of Ceuta, marking the beginning of Portugal’s overseas expansion and the wider European Age of Discovery.
  • E. 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.
  • 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 occupation of Tangier
Triple: [Portuguese capture of Tangier, followedBy, Portuguese occupation of Tangier]
Generated description
The Portuguese occupation of Tangier was a period from the late 15th to the mid-17th century during which Portugal controlled the strategically vital North African port city, using it as a military and commercial outpost on the Strait of Gibraltar.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Portuguese occupation of Tangier
Target entity description: The Portuguese occupation of Tangier was a period from the late 15th to the mid-17th century during which Portugal controlled the strategically vital North African port city, using it as a military and commercial outpost on the Strait of Gibraltar.
  • A. Portuguese capture of Tangier chosen
    The Portuguese capture of Tangier was a 15th-century military campaign in which Portugal sought to expand its North African holdings by seizing the strategic port city of Tangier from Muslim rule.
  • B. Portuguese occupation of Muscat
    The Portuguese occupation of Muscat was a period in the 16th and 17th centuries when the Portuguese Empire controlled the strategic Omani port city as part of its Indian Ocean trading network.
  • C. English occupation of Tangier
    The English occupation of Tangier was a brief 17th-century period during which England controlled the strategically important North African port city, using it as a naval base and trading outpost before abandoning it due to military and financial pressures.
  • D. Conquest of Ceuta
    The Conquest of Ceuta was the 1415 Portuguese capture of the North African city of Ceuta, marking the beginning of Portugal’s overseas expansion and the wider European Age of Discovery.
  • E. 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.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d85a0dde7481908fc64d1e82d5d20d completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e007f728648190b2c86e4528542b65 completed April 15, 2026, 9:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fee5f390bc8190bc0180c118e1523c completed May 9, 2026, 7:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fee68055b88190afa0e3b1bc2b13bb completed May 9, 2026, 7:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fee7190a6c81908fa7376f3e3c5371 completed May 9, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:13 a.m.