Triple

T167038
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Panzer Army Africa E3037 entity
Predicate battle P12 FINISHED
Object Battle of Tobruk (1942)
The Battle of Tobruk (1942) was a World War II North African campaign engagement in which Axis forces rapidly captured the strategic Libyan port of Tobruk from the Allies, leading to a significant shift in control along the desert front.
E31886 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: Battle of Tobruk (1942) | Statement: [Panzer Army Africa, battle, Battle of Tobruk (1942)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Tobruk (1942)
Context triple: [Panzer Army Africa, battle, Battle of Tobruk (1942)]
  • A. Siege of Tobruk
    The Siege of Tobruk was a prolonged World War II battle in Libya where Allied forces, notably Australian troops, held the strategic port of Tobruk against Axis forces in 1941, becoming a symbol of resistance in the North African campaign.
  • B. Battle of Gazala
    The Battle of Gazala was a major World War II confrontation in 1942 near Tobruk in Libya, where Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps defeated British-led forces and paved the way for the fall of Tobruk.
  • C. Battle of El Alamein
    The Battle of El Alamein was a pivotal 1942 North African campaign clash between Allied and Axis forces that marked a major turning point in World War II by halting the German advance toward Egypt and the Suez Canal.
  • D. Battle of Bir Hakeim
    The Battle of Bir Hakeim was a pivotal 1942 North African engagement in which Free French forces held off Axis troops in the Libyan desert, significantly delaying the advance toward Egypt.
  • E. Battle of Kasserine Pass
    The Battle of Kasserine Pass was a major World War II engagement in Tunisia in early 1943, marking the first large-scale clash between American and German forces in North Africa and exposing critical weaknesses in inexperienced U.S. troops and command.
  • 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: Battle of Tobruk (1942)
Triple: [Panzer Army Africa, battle, Battle of Tobruk (1942)]
Generated description
The Battle of Tobruk (1942) was a World War II North African campaign engagement in which Axis forces rapidly captured the strategic Libyan port of Tobruk from the Allies, leading to a significant shift in control along the desert front.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Tobruk (1942)
Target entity description: The Battle of Tobruk (1942) was a World War II North African campaign engagement in which Axis forces rapidly captured the strategic Libyan port of Tobruk from the Allies, leading to a significant shift in control along the desert front.
  • A. Siege of Tobruk
    The Siege of Tobruk was a prolonged World War II battle in Libya where Allied forces, notably Australian troops, held the strategic port of Tobruk against Axis forces in 1941, becoming a symbol of resistance in the North African campaign.
  • B. Battle of Gazala
    The Battle of Gazala was a major World War II confrontation in 1942 near Tobruk in Libya, where Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps defeated British-led forces and paved the way for the fall of Tobruk.
  • C. Battle of El Alamein
    The Battle of El Alamein was a pivotal 1942 North African campaign clash between Allied and Axis forces that marked a major turning point in World War II by halting the German advance toward Egypt and the Suez Canal.
  • D. Battle of Bir Hakeim
    The Battle of Bir Hakeim was a pivotal 1942 North African engagement in which Free French forces held off Axis troops in the Libyan desert, significantly delaying the advance toward Egypt.
  • E. Battle of Kasserine Pass
    The Battle of Kasserine Pass was a major World War II engagement in Tunisia in early 1943, marking the first large-scale clash between American and German forces in North Africa and exposing critical weaknesses in inexperienced U.S. troops and command.
  • 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_69a2524ce1e48190ab066bf72859f474 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:26 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25884c8d88190bc4cb4e3541e8116 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:52 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a36cecd7548190afb12addafc7bbf5 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a370c0be6c81909896818df1ac5e28 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3712460ec819081e5cafb812dfb9d completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:50 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:34 a.m.