Triple

T6071109
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Siege of Metz E135281 entity
Predicate notableEngagement P1700 FINISHED
Object Battle of Mars-la-Tour
The Battle of Mars-la-Tour was a major 1870 Franco-Prussian War clash in which a smaller Prussian force unexpectedly halted and turned back a larger French army, helping to trap it in Metz.
E576910 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 Mars-la-Tour | Statement: [Siege of Metz, notableEngagement, Battle of Mars-la-Tour]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Mars-la-Tour
Context triple: [Siege of Metz, notableEngagement, Battle of Mars-la-Tour]
  • A. Battle of Gravelotte
    The Battle of Gravelotte was a pivotal 1870 engagement in the Franco-Prussian War in which Prussian-led German forces decisively defeated the French army near Metz, contributing significantly to the German path to victory and unification.
  • B. Battle of Ligny
    The Battle of Ligny was Napoleon Bonaparte’s last battlefield victory, fought on 16 June 1815 in present-day Belgium against Prussian forces shortly before his final defeat at Waterloo.
  • C. Battle of Wavre
    The Battle of Wavre was the final engagement of the Waterloo campaign in June 1815, in which Prussian forces held off Marshal Grouchy’s French troops, enabling Blücher to support Wellington at Waterloo and sealing Napoleon’s defeat.
  • D. Battle of the Meuse
    The Battle of the Meuse was a key World War II engagement in May 1940 during the German invasion of France, where German forces forced crossings of the Meuse River to break through Allied defenses.
  • E. Battle of Noisseville
    The Battle of Noisseville was a Franco-Prussian War engagement in late August 1870 near Metz, where German forces repelled French attempts to break out of the besieged city, tightening the encirclement that led to later decisive defeats.
  • 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 Mars-la-Tour
Triple: [Siege of Metz, notableEngagement, Battle of Mars-la-Tour]
Generated description
The Battle of Mars-la-Tour was a major 1870 Franco-Prussian War clash in which a smaller Prussian force unexpectedly halted and turned back a larger French army, helping to trap it in Metz.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Mars-la-Tour
Target entity description: The Battle of Mars-la-Tour was a major 1870 Franco-Prussian War clash in which a smaller Prussian force unexpectedly halted and turned back a larger French army, helping to trap it in Metz.
  • A. Battle of Gravelotte
    The Battle of Gravelotte was a pivotal 1870 engagement in the Franco-Prussian War in which Prussian-led German forces decisively defeated the French army near Metz, contributing significantly to the German path to victory and unification.
  • B. Battle of Ligny
    The Battle of Ligny was Napoleon Bonaparte’s last battlefield victory, fought on 16 June 1815 in present-day Belgium against Prussian forces shortly before his final defeat at Waterloo.
  • C. Battle of Wavre
    The Battle of Wavre was the final engagement of the Waterloo campaign in June 1815, in which Prussian forces held off Marshal Grouchy’s French troops, enabling Blücher to support Wellington at Waterloo and sealing Napoleon’s defeat.
  • D. Battle of the Meuse
    The Battle of the Meuse was a key World War II engagement in May 1940 during the German invasion of France, where German forces forced crossings of the Meuse River to break through Allied defenses.
  • E. Battle of Noisseville
    The Battle of Noisseville was a Franco-Prussian War engagement in late August 1870 near Metz, where German forces repelled French attempts to break out of the besieged city, tightening the encirclement that led to later decisive defeats.
  • 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_69c00879e8048190b690717d19c5bc03 completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c05758a21c81909cc10ef5f725a489 completed March 22, 2026, 8:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c20d4e28b48190bb44675c5c035bd3 completed March 24, 2026, 4:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c20f50f6988190b2df198edd4bf87e completed March 24, 2026, 4:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c20fcabbe481908194871d21e12155 completed March 24, 2026, 4:15 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:10 p.m.