Triple

T4319150
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Heavy Branch, Machine Gun Corps E96467 entity
Predicate engagement P1256 FINISHED
Object Battle of Flers–Courcelette
The Battle of Flers–Courcelette was a major First World War engagement on the Somme in September 1916, notable for the first-ever use of tanks in combat by the British Army.
E243680 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 Flers–Courcelette | Statement: [Heavy Branch, Machine Gun Corps, engagement, Battle of Flers–Courcelette]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Flers–Courcelette
Context triple: [Heavy Branch, Machine Gun Corps, engagement, Battle of Flers–Courcelette]
  • A. Battle of Courcelette
    The Battle of Courcelette was a major First World War engagement on the Somme in September 1916, notable for significant Canadian involvement and the first large-scale use of tanks in combat.
  • B. Battle of Thiepval Ridge
    The Battle of Thiepval Ridge was a major British offensive on the Western Front during the Somme campaign of World War I, marked by intense fighting to capture heavily fortified German positions.
  • C. Battle of Pozières
    The Battle of Pozières was a major and intensely fought engagement on the Western Front during the 1916 Somme offensive, in which Australian and British forces captured and held the strategically vital village of Pozières against heavy German counterattacks.
  • D. Battle of Polygon Wood
    The Battle of Polygon Wood was a World War I engagement in 1917 in the Ypres Salient, where Australian and British forces advanced against German positions as part of the larger Third Battle of Ypres.
  • E. Battle of Fromelles
    The Battle of Fromelles was a disastrous First World War engagement on the Western Front in July 1916, remembered particularly for the heavy losses suffered by Australian troops in their first major action on the Western Front.
  • 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 Flers–Courcelette
Triple: [Heavy Branch, Machine Gun Corps, engagement, Battle of Flers–Courcelette]
Generated description
The Battle of Flers–Courcelette was a major First World War engagement on the Somme in September 1916, notable for the first-ever use of tanks in combat by the British Army.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Flers–Courcelette
Target entity description: The Battle of Flers–Courcelette was a major First World War engagement on the Somme in September 1916, notable for the first-ever use of tanks in combat by the British Army.
  • A. Battle of Courcelette chosen
    The Battle of Courcelette was a major First World War engagement on the Somme in September 1916, notable for significant Canadian involvement and the first large-scale use of tanks in combat.
  • B. Battle of Thiepval Ridge
    The Battle of Thiepval Ridge was a major British offensive on the Western Front during the Somme campaign of World War I, marked by intense fighting to capture heavily fortified German positions.
  • C. Battle of Pozières
    The Battle of Pozières was a major and intensely fought engagement on the Western Front during the 1916 Somme offensive, in which Australian and British forces captured and held the strategically vital village of Pozières against heavy German counterattacks.
  • D. Battle of Polygon Wood
    The Battle of Polygon Wood was a World War I engagement in 1917 in the Ypres Salient, where Australian and British forces advanced against German positions as part of the larger Third Battle of Ypres.
  • E. Battle of Fromelles
    The Battle of Fromelles was a disastrous First World War engagement on the Western Front in July 1916, remembered particularly for the heavy losses suffered by Australian troops in their first major action on the Western Front.
  • F. None of above.

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_69b345422aac81909ddbadae437d122e completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b35112ec008190958487f501481887 completed March 12, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b6134ca4f88190a2aa34bf39d71ac6 completed March 15, 2026, 2:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b617c13d4481909d22d201ce405d3a completed March 15, 2026, 2:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b6187687f8819084e2d611e9e31f79 completed March 15, 2026, 2:24 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:12 p.m.