Triple

T5044396
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tangier 1662–1680 E113625 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object English occupation of Tangier
The English occupation of Tangier was a brief 17th-century period during which England controlled the strategically important North African port city, using it as a naval base and trading outpost before abandoning it due to military and financial pressures.
E489161 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: English occupation of Tangier | Statement: [Tangier 1662–1680, hasPart, English occupation of Tangier]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: English occupation of Tangier
Context triple: [Tangier 1662–1680, hasPart, English occupation of Tangier]
  • A. Portuguese capture of Tangier
    The Portuguese capture of Tangier was a 15th-century military campaign in which Portugal sought to expand its North African holdings by seizing the strategic port city of Tangier from Muslim rule.
  • B. Portuguese occupation of Muscat
    The Portuguese occupation of Muscat was a period in the 16th and 17th centuries when the Portuguese Empire controlled the strategic Omani port city as part of its Indian Ocean trading network.
  • C. Portuguese expansion into North Africa
    Portuguese expansion into North Africa was a series of early 15th- and 16th-century military and maritime campaigns through which Portugal seized key coastal cities and fortresses across the Maghreb, laying foundations for its wider overseas empire.
  • D. Spanish Protectorate in Morocco
    The Spanish Protectorate in Morocco was a colonial territory in northern and parts of southern Morocco under Spanish control from 1912 to 1956, administered alongside the French protectorate and known for its strategic Mediterranean and Atlantic coastal zones.
  • E. Conquest of Ceuta
    The Conquest of Ceuta was the 1415 Portuguese capture of the North African city of Ceuta, marking the beginning of Portugal’s overseas expansion and the wider European Age of Discovery.
  • 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: English occupation of Tangier
Triple: [Tangier 1662–1680, hasPart, English occupation of Tangier]
Generated description
The English occupation of Tangier was a brief 17th-century period during which England controlled the strategically important North African port city, using it as a naval base and trading outpost before abandoning it due to military and financial pressures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: English occupation of Tangier
Target entity description: The English occupation of Tangier was a brief 17th-century period during which England controlled the strategically important North African port city, using it as a naval base and trading outpost before abandoning it due to military and financial pressures.
  • A. Portuguese capture of Tangier
    The Portuguese capture of Tangier was a 15th-century military campaign in which Portugal sought to expand its North African holdings by seizing the strategic port city of Tangier from Muslim rule.
  • B. Portuguese occupation of Muscat
    The Portuguese occupation of Muscat was a period in the 16th and 17th centuries when the Portuguese Empire controlled the strategic Omani port city as part of its Indian Ocean trading network.
  • C. Portuguese expansion into North Africa
    Portuguese expansion into North Africa was a series of early 15th- and 16th-century military and maritime campaigns through which Portugal seized key coastal cities and fortresses across the Maghreb, laying foundations for its wider overseas empire.
  • D. Spanish Protectorate in Morocco
    The Spanish Protectorate in Morocco was a colonial territory in northern and parts of southern Morocco under Spanish control from 1912 to 1956, administered alongside the French protectorate and known for its strategic Mediterranean and Atlantic coastal zones.
  • E. Conquest of Ceuta
    The Conquest of Ceuta was the 1415 Portuguese capture of the North African city of Ceuta, marking the beginning of Portugal’s overseas expansion and the wider European Age of Discovery.
  • 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_69bd44391fc48190a311ce9c826c209b completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd73fd81788190b7799f519277119a completed March 20, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be9c8ad6408190bf4408af7b095a12 completed March 21, 2026, 1:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be9f91ae7081908a00cf92b5461c75 completed March 21, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bea0155838819082b4b04e79641d65 completed March 21, 2026, 1:41 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:37 p.m.