Triple

T1657243
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British Expeditionary Force (World War II) E35827 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object BEF
The BEF was the British Army force deployed to France at the start of World War II, which fought in the early campaigns and was famously evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940.
 E187836 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: BEF | Statement: [British Expeditionary Force (World War II), alsoKnownAs, BEF]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: BEF
Context triple: [British Expeditionary Force (World War II), alsoKnownAs, BEF]
  • A. Bf
    Bf is the aircraft designation prefix historically used for military aircraft designed or built by the German manufacturer Bayerische Flugzeugwerke, notably including early Messerschmitt fighters.
  • B. AEF
    AEF was the common abbreviation for French Equatorial Africa, a former federation of French colonial territories in central Africa.
  • C. BF
    BF is the IATA airline designator for French Bee, a French low-cost long-haul carrier.
  • D. BEG
    BEG is the IATA airport code for Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport, the main international airport serving Serbia’s capital city.
  • E. BE
    BE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code that uniquely identifies Belgium in international standards and systems.
  • 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: BEF
Triple: [British Expeditionary Force (World War II), alsoKnownAs, BEF]
Generated description
The BEF was the British Army force deployed to France at the start of World War II, which fought in the early campaigns and was famously evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: BEF
Target entity description: The BEF was the British Army force deployed to France at the start of World War II, which fought in the early campaigns and was famously evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940.
  • A. Bf
    Bf is the aircraft designation prefix historically used for military aircraft designed or built by the German manufacturer Bayerische Flugzeugwerke, notably including early Messerschmitt fighters.
  • B. AEF
    AEF was the common abbreviation for French Equatorial Africa, a former federation of French colonial territories in central Africa.
  • C. BF
    BF is the IATA airline designator for French Bee, a French low-cost long-haul carrier.
  • D. BEG
    BEG is the IATA airport code for Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport, the main international airport serving Serbia’s capital city.
  • E. BE
    BE is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code that uniquely identifies Belgium in international standards and systems.
  • 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_69a88606aa808190aa0b421b4271f220 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a90a8d85f08190a50ade3f443b7703 completed March 5, 2026, 4:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad68254a6081909c2222fd77dff648 completed March 8, 2026, 12:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad68a9769081908a0748b8d02b8379 completed March 8, 2026, 12:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad692d61288190ad0c0265f49643ac completed March 8, 2026, 12:18 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.