Triple

T17134938
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Mers-el-Kébir E415812 entity
Predicate location P40 FINISHED
Object Mers-el-Kébir
Mers-el-Kébir is a port town on Algeria’s Mediterranean coast, historically significant as a major French naval base and the site of a controversial World War II-era naval attack.
E1252460 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: Mers-el-Kébir | Statement: [Battle of Mers-el-Kébir, location, Mers-el-Kébir]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mers-el-Kébir
Context triple: [Battle of Mers-el-Kébir, location, Mers-el-Kébir]
  • A. Battle of Mers-el-Kébir
    The Battle of Mers-el-Kébir was a 1940 World War II naval engagement off the coast of French Algeria in which the British Royal Navy attacked the French fleet to prevent it from falling into German hands.
  • B. Bombing of Italian fleet at Mers-el-Kébir
    The Bombing of the Italian fleet at Mers-el-Kébir was a World War II naval air attack in 1940 in which British forces struck Italian warships anchored in the Algerian port of Mers-el-Kébir to neutralize them as a potential threat.
  • C. Naval Battle of Casablanca
    The Naval Battle of Casablanca was a major World War II naval engagement in November 1942, fought off the coast of French Morocco during Operation Torch between Allied and Vichy French forces.
  • D. Scapa Flow raid
    The Scapa Flow raid was a daring World War II German submarine attack in October 1939 that penetrated the British Royal Navy’s main base in Orkney and sank the battleship HMS Royal Oak.
  • E. Cape Matapan
    Cape Matapan is the southernmost point of mainland Greece, a prominent headland on the Peloponnese that has long held strategic importance for Mediterranean sea routes.
  • 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: Mers-el-Kébir
Triple: [Battle of Mers-el-Kébir, location, Mers-el-Kébir]
Generated description
Mers-el-Kébir is a port town on Algeria’s Mediterranean coast, historically significant as a major French naval base and the site of a controversial World War II-era naval attack.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mers-el-Kébir
Target entity description: Mers-el-Kébir is a port town on Algeria’s Mediterranean coast, historically significant as a major French naval base and the site of a controversial World War II-era naval attack.
  • A. Battle of Mers-el-Kébir
    The Battle of Mers-el-Kébir was a 1940 World War II naval engagement off the coast of French Algeria in which the British Royal Navy attacked the French fleet to prevent it from falling into German hands.
  • B. Bombing of Italian fleet at Mers-el-Kébir
    The Bombing of the Italian fleet at Mers-el-Kébir was a World War II naval air attack in 1940 in which British forces struck Italian warships anchored in the Algerian port of Mers-el-Kébir to neutralize them as a potential threat.
  • C. Naval Battle of Casablanca
    The Naval Battle of Casablanca was a major World War II naval engagement in November 1942, fought off the coast of French Morocco during Operation Torch between Allied and Vichy French forces.
  • D. Scapa Flow raid
    The Scapa Flow raid was a daring World War II German submarine attack in October 1939 that penetrated the British Royal Navy’s main base in Orkney and sank the battleship HMS Royal Oak.
  • E. Cape Matapan
    Cape Matapan is the southernmost point of mainland Greece, a prominent headland on the Peloponnese that has long held strategic importance for Mediterranean sea routes.
  • 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_69d886d15af4819092f92f8a129763e6 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3f02dca8881908efd73741397a207 completed April 18, 2026, 8:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a014150d63081908a5614f85694e57a completed May 11, 2026, 2:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0141e96e4481908bfdf7a1eb4ac979 completed May 11, 2026, 2:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01428ca86881909b18bcfc1c223f22 completed May 11, 2026, 2:44 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:36 a.m.