Triple

T4849753
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject West African Frontier Force E108383 entity
Predicate theaterOfOperations P710 FINISHED
Object German Togoland campaign
The German Togoland campaign was a World War I military operation in which Allied forces, primarily British and French colonial troops, invaded and occupied the German colony of Togoland in West Africa in 1914.
E473558 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: German Togoland campaign | Statement: [West African Frontier Force, theaterOfOperations, German Togoland campaign]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: German Togoland campaign
Context triple: [West African Frontier Force, theaterOfOperations, German Togoland campaign]
  • A. 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.
  • B. South-West Africa Campaign
    The South-West Africa Campaign was a World War I military operation in which South African forces invaded and defeated German colonial rule in present-day Namibia.
  • C. Battle of Keren
    The Battle of Keren was a major World War II engagement in Eritrea where British and Commonwealth forces defeated Italian troops in early 1941, opening the way for Allied control of Italian East Africa.
  • 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.
  • E. Battle of Gabon
    The Battle of Gabon was a 1940 World War II campaign in French Equatorial Africa in which Free French and Allied forces seized control of Vichy-held Gabon, consolidating Free French authority in central Africa.
  • 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: German Togoland campaign
Triple: [West African Frontier Force, theaterOfOperations, German Togoland campaign]
Generated description
The German Togoland campaign was a World War I military operation in which Allied forces, primarily British and French colonial troops, invaded and occupied the German colony of Togoland in West Africa in 1914.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: German Togoland campaign
Target entity description: The German Togoland campaign was a World War I military operation in which Allied forces, primarily British and French colonial troops, invaded and occupied the German colony of Togoland in West Africa in 1914.
  • A. 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.
  • B. South-West Africa Campaign
    The South-West Africa Campaign was a World War I military operation in which South African forces invaded and defeated German colonial rule in present-day Namibia.
  • C. Battle of Keren
    The Battle of Keren was a major World War II engagement in Eritrea where British and Commonwealth forces defeated Italian troops in early 1941, opening the way for Allied control of Italian East Africa.
  • 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.
  • E. Battle of Gabon
    The Battle of Gabon was a 1940 World War II campaign in French Equatorial Africa in which Free French and Allied forces seized control of Vichy-held Gabon, consolidating Free French authority in central Africa.
  • 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_69bd440a89548190a5f14ba6da6b97dc completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6d1e5cf08190bd6b6a524748f170 completed March 20, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be5cdafb3481908594ae883c6e9872 completed March 21, 2026, 8:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be5d4f2f908190b305996875f1f956 completed March 21, 2026, 8:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be5dcbb58c8190bbcf75c570720ad6 completed March 21, 2026, 8:58 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:25 p.m.