Triple

T5559751
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sino-French War E145734 entity
Predicate involvedForce P1063 FINISHED
Object Black Flag Army
The Black Flag Army was a 19th-century irregular militia of mostly Chinese soldiers active in northern Vietnam, known for guerrilla warfare against French colonial forces and involvement in regional conflicts.
E532300 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: Black Flag Army | Statement: [Sino-French War, involvedForce, Black Flag Army]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Black Flag Army
Context triple: [Sino-French War, involvedForce, Black Flag Army]
  • A. Saint Patrick's Battalion
    Saint Patrick's Battalion was a unit of mostly Irish Catholic deserters from the U.S. Army who fought for Mexico during the Mexican–American War, becoming known for their fierce resistance and controversial defection.
  • B. Butler’s Rangers
    Butler’s Rangers was a Loyalist provincial military unit that fought alongside the British during the American Revolutionary War, noted for its frontier raids and irregular warfare tactics.
  • C. Fighting Maroons
    The Fighting Maroons are the varsity athletic teams representing the University of the Philippines in collegiate sports, particularly known for their participation in the UAAP.
  • D. Free State forces
    Free State forces were the pro-Treaty military units that supported the establishment of the Irish Free State and fought against anti-Treaty republicans during the Irish Civil War.
  • E. Pennsylvania militia
    The Pennsylvania militia was a colonial-era citizen-soldier force that provided local defense and support to the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
  • 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: Black Flag Army
Triple: [Sino-French War, involvedForce, Black Flag Army]
Generated description
The Black Flag Army was a 19th-century irregular militia of mostly Chinese soldiers active in northern Vietnam, known for guerrilla warfare against French colonial forces and involvement in regional conflicts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Black Flag Army
Target entity description: The Black Flag Army was a 19th-century irregular militia of mostly Chinese soldiers active in northern Vietnam, known for guerrilla warfare against French colonial forces and involvement in regional conflicts.
  • A. Saint Patrick's Battalion
    Saint Patrick's Battalion was a unit of mostly Irish Catholic deserters from the U.S. Army who fought for Mexico during the Mexican–American War, becoming known for their fierce resistance and controversial defection.
  • B. Butler’s Rangers
    Butler’s Rangers was a Loyalist provincial military unit that fought alongside the British during the American Revolutionary War, noted for its frontier raids and irregular warfare tactics.
  • C. Fighting Maroons
    The Fighting Maroons are the varsity athletic teams representing the University of the Philippines in collegiate sports, particularly known for their participation in the UAAP.
  • D. Free State forces
    Free State forces were the pro-Treaty military units that supported the establishment of the Irish Free State and fought against anti-Treaty republicans during the Irish Civil War.
  • E. Pennsylvania militia
    The Pennsylvania militia was a colonial-era citizen-soldier force that provided local defense and support to the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
  • 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_69c008fcaf788190bafa02a1917ee73b completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c020167afc8190b0c518907cd0d99b completed March 22, 2026, 5 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c028424ddc8190869b530a8eb43f50 completed March 22, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0349f64c0819083b39d8b7960a393 completed March 22, 2026, 6:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0354e95808190b4386e2796291dba completed March 22, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:36 p.m.