Triple
T3837923
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend |
E91179
|
entity |
| Predicate | servedIn |
P253
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Sudan campaign |
E214816
|
NE FINISHED |
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: Sudan campaign | Statement: [Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend, servedIn, Sudan campaign]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sudan campaign Context triple: [Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend, servedIn, Sudan campaign]
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A.
Siege of Khartoum
The Siege of Khartoum was an 1884–1885 military encirclement and capture of the Sudanese capital by Mahdist forces, culminating in the death of British General Charles Gordon and a major imperial defeat for Britain.
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B.
Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of Sudan
chosen
The Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of Sudan was a late 19th-century military campaign in which British and Egyptian forces defeated the Mahdist state and reestablished joint colonial control over Sudan.
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C.
East African campaign
The East African campaign was a World War II military operation in which Allied forces, including British, Commonwealth, and Free French troops, fought to expel Italian forces from East Africa between 1940 and 1941.
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D.
Fashoda Incident
The Fashoda Incident was an 1898 imperial confrontation between Britain and France in Sudan that nearly triggered war and symbolized the climax of their colonial rivalry in Africa.
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E.
Sinai and Palestine campaign
The Sinai and Palestine campaign was a World War I Middle Eastern theatre in which Allied forces fought the Ottoman Empire across the Sinai Peninsula and into Palestine, contributing to the eventual collapse of Ottoman control in the region.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69aed960b538819096561c8ed448dec9 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aeeb9d11f081909fc51e84657ec7f1 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 3:47 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b5040835dc81909ecf5053128f1cc7 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 6:45 a.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:18 p.m.