Triple
T20737766
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Basra campaigns of the Iran–Iraq War |
E509755
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entity |
| Predicate | reasonForBasraImportance |
P141320
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FINISHED |
| Object | Basra was a major logistical center for Iraqi forces on the southern front |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Basra was a major logistical center for Iraqi forces on the southern front | Statement: [Basra campaigns of the Iran–Iraq War, reasonForBasraImportance, Basra was a major logistical center for Iraqi forces on the southern front]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Basra was a major logistical center for Iraqi forces on the southern front Context triple: [Basra campaigns of the Iran–Iraq War, reasonForBasraImportance, Basra was a major logistical center for Iraqi forces on the southern front]
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A.
Basra campaigns of the Iran–Iraq War
chosen
The Basra campaigns of the Iran–Iraq War were a series of major offensives and battles around the strategic southern Iraqi city of Basra, where Iran sought to break Iraqi defenses and potentially force a decisive end to the conflict.
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B.
Battle of Basra (2003)
The Battle of Basra (2003) was a major engagement during the initial phase of the Iraq War in which British-led coalition forces captured the strategic southern city of Basra from Iraqi government control.
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C.
southern Iraq
Southern Iraq is the predominantly Shiite, oil-rich region of Iraq along the lower Tigris and Euphrates rivers and the Persian Gulf, encompassing cities like Basra and significant marshland areas.
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D.
British occupation of Basra
The British occupation of Basra was the 1914 World War I campaign in which British-Indian forces seized the key port city of Basra from the Ottoman Empire, establishing a strategic foothold in Mesopotamia.
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E.
Basra Air Station
Basra Air Station is a major military airbase in southern Iraq that served as a key hub for British and coalition forces during the Iraq War.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69e0b4c589c08190834fb5d86d0efa2b |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6c20ac6e881908524be890be699e7 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 12:17 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:32 p.m.