Triple
T3304058
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Flag Officer, Dover |
E69404
|
entity |
| Predicate | theatre |
P671
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FINISHED |
| Object |
Western Approaches to the North Sea
Western Approaches to the North Sea was a World War I naval operational area off the eastern English Channel and southern North Sea, overseen by the Royal Navy’s Flag Officer at Dover for the protection of Allied shipping and coastal waters.
|
E347687
|
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: Western Approaches to the North Sea | Statement: [Flag Officer, Dover, theatre, Western Approaches to the North Sea]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Western Approaches to the North Sea Context triple: [Flag Officer, Dover, theatre, Western Approaches to the North Sea]
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A.
North Sea minefields
The North Sea minefields were extensive defensive and offensive naval mine barriers laid primarily by the British and Germans during both World Wars to disrupt enemy shipping and protect coastal waters.
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B.
Jutland
Jutland is the large peninsula forming the mainland part of Denmark, extending north from Germany between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.
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C.
Action in the North Atlantic
Action in the North Atlantic is a 1943 World War II naval war film starring Humphrey Bogart that dramatizes the perilous missions of U.S. Merchant Marine convoys battling German U-boats in the North Atlantic.
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D.
The Free Sea
The Free Sea is the English title of Hugo Grotius’s seminal 1609 treatise advocating the principle of freedom of the seas in international law.
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E.
British naval blockade of Europe
The British naval blockade of Europe was a Royal Navy strategy during the Napoleonic Wars that aimed to strangle French trade and weaken Napoleon’s empire by controlling maritime access to the European continent.
- 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: Western Approaches to the North Sea Triple: [Flag Officer, Dover, theatre, Western Approaches to the North Sea]
Generated description
Western Approaches to the North Sea was a World War I naval operational area off the eastern English Channel and southern North Sea, overseen by the Royal Navy’s Flag Officer at Dover for the protection of Allied shipping and coastal waters.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Western Approaches to the North Sea Target entity description: Western Approaches to the North Sea was a World War I naval operational area off the eastern English Channel and southern North Sea, overseen by the Royal Navy’s Flag Officer at Dover for the protection of Allied shipping and coastal waters.
-
A.
North Sea minefields
The North Sea minefields were extensive defensive and offensive naval mine barriers laid primarily by the British and Germans during both World Wars to disrupt enemy shipping and protect coastal waters.
-
B.
Jutland
Jutland is the large peninsula forming the mainland part of Denmark, extending north from Germany between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.
-
C.
Action in the North Atlantic
Action in the North Atlantic is a 1943 World War II naval war film starring Humphrey Bogart that dramatizes the perilous missions of U.S. Merchant Marine convoys battling German U-boats in the North Atlantic.
-
D.
The Free Sea
The Free Sea is the English title of Hugo Grotius’s seminal 1609 treatise advocating the principle of freedom of the seas in international law.
-
E.
British naval blockade of Europe
The British naval blockade of Europe was a Royal Navy strategy during the Napoleonic Wars that aimed to strangle French trade and weaken Napoleon’s empire by controlling maritime access to the European continent.
- 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_69ad859f218081909458d2cebbf57565 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adb0c8179081908a2595d1fdb7560a |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:24 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b2f3e383088190a056ca793ebf4ffe |
completed | March 12, 2026, 5:12 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b2f9fb060881909dd940c69cf4a12e |
completed | March 12, 2026, 5:38 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b3137bf988819080cef6c1946ec622 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 7:26 p.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:11 p.m.