Triple

T4347577
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fashoda Incident E97942 entity
Predicate opposingCommander P1698 FINISHED
Object Jean-Baptiste Marchand
Jean-Baptiste Marchand was a French military officer and explorer best known for leading the French expedition to Fashoda in 1898, a key episode in the imperial rivalry between France and Britain in Africa.
E432513 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: Jean-Baptiste Marchand | Statement: [Fashoda Incident, opposingCommander, Jean-Baptiste Marchand]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jean-Baptiste Marchand
Context triple: [Fashoda Incident, opposingCommander, Jean-Baptiste Marchand]
  • A. Jean-Baptiste Le Blond
    Jean-Baptiste Le Blond was a French architect and landscape designer of the early 18th century, known for bringing French formal garden and architectural styles to Russia under Peter the Great.
  • B. Stanislas Guerini
    Stanislas Guerini is a French politician who has served as a leading figure in President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist political movement.
  • C. François Jouffroy
    François Jouffroy was a 19th-century French sculptor known for his neoclassical style and contributions to major Parisian monuments.
  • D. Yves-François Blanchet
    Yves-François Blanchet is a Canadian politician who serves as the leader of the Bloc Québécois, a federal party advocating for Quebec nationalism and sovereignty.
  • E. Jean-François Bernard
    Jean-François Bernard is a former French professional road cyclist known as a top stage racer and time trialist in the 1980s, including podium finishes in the Tour de France.
  • 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: Jean-Baptiste Marchand
Triple: [Fashoda Incident, opposingCommander, Jean-Baptiste Marchand]
Generated description
Jean-Baptiste Marchand was a French military officer and explorer best known for leading the French expedition to Fashoda in 1898, a key episode in the imperial rivalry between France and Britain in Africa.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jean-Baptiste Marchand
Target entity description: Jean-Baptiste Marchand was a French military officer and explorer best known for leading the French expedition to Fashoda in 1898, a key episode in the imperial rivalry between France and Britain in Africa.
  • A. Jean-Baptiste Le Blond
    Jean-Baptiste Le Blond was a French architect and landscape designer of the early 18th century, known for bringing French formal garden and architectural styles to Russia under Peter the Great.
  • B. Stanislas Guerini
    Stanislas Guerini is a French politician who has served as a leading figure in President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist political movement.
  • C. François Jouffroy
    François Jouffroy was a 19th-century French sculptor known for his neoclassical style and contributions to major Parisian monuments.
  • D. Yves-François Blanchet
    Yves-François Blanchet is a Canadian politician who serves as the leader of the Bloc Québécois, a federal party advocating for Quebec nationalism and sovereignty.
  • E. Jean-François Bernard
    Jean-François Bernard is a former French professional road cyclist known as a top stage racer and time trialist in the 1980s, including podium finishes in the Tour de France.
  • 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_69b34548402c819085ab68b27c235a87 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b351a5559c819081608b0aaf6a0e66 completed March 12, 2026, 11:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5dba958b88190b1b4efe4274cd060 completed March 14, 2026, 10:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5dc1eedc08190b50b72b59cf1dcf0 completed March 14, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5dcbf4d5081908d24bce8e2769124 completed March 14, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:15 p.m.