Triple

T7378881
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject First Battle of Ypres E170195 entity
Predicate combatantForce P6154 FINISHED
Object British Expeditionary Force
The British Expeditionary Force was the British Army's professional field force sent to the Western Front at the start of World War I, playing a crucial role in early battles such as those of 1914 in Belgium and France.
E660527 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: British Expeditionary Force | Statement: [First Battle of Ypres, combatantForce, British Expeditionary Force]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Expeditionary Force
Context triple: [First Battle of Ypres, combatantForce, British Expeditionary Force]
  • A. British Expeditionary Force
    The British Expeditionary Force was the British Army contingent sent to support France and Belgium at the start of World War II, famously withdrawn from mainland Europe during the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation.
  • B. British expeditionary forces
    The British expeditionary forces were military contingents sent by Britain to intervene overseas, notably in conflicts such as the Haitian Revolution, in pursuit of imperial and strategic interests.
  • C. British forces
    British forces were the military units of the United Kingdom, encompassing the British Army, Royal Navy, and later the Royal Air Force, that enforced British rule and fought in conflicts across the British Empire and beyond.
  • D. Allied Expeditionary Force
    The Allied Expeditionary Force was the combined military force of the Western Allies in Europe during World War II, commanded by General Dwight D. Eisenhower and responsible for operations such as the D-Day landings and the subsequent liberation of Western Europe.
  • E. British Egyptian Expeditionary Force
    The British Egyptian Expeditionary Force was a British-led military formation in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, responsible for major campaigns in Sinai, Palestine, and surrounding regions.
  • 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: British Expeditionary Force
Triple: [First Battle of Ypres, combatantForce, British Expeditionary Force]
Generated description
The British Expeditionary Force was the British Army's professional field force sent to the Western Front at the start of World War I, playing a crucial role in early battles such as those of 1914 in Belgium and France.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British Expeditionary Force
Target entity description: The British Expeditionary Force was the British Army's professional field force sent to the Western Front at the start of World War I, playing a crucial role in early battles such as those of 1914 in Belgium and France.
  • A. British Expeditionary Force
    The British Expeditionary Force was the British Army contingent sent to support France and Belgium at the start of World War II, famously withdrawn from mainland Europe during the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation.
  • B. British expeditionary forces
    The British expeditionary forces were military contingents sent by Britain to intervene overseas, notably in conflicts such as the Haitian Revolution, in pursuit of imperial and strategic interests.
  • C. British forces
    British forces were the military units of the United Kingdom, encompassing the British Army, Royal Navy, and later the Royal Air Force, that enforced British rule and fought in conflicts across the British Empire and beyond.
  • D. Allied Expeditionary Force
    The Allied Expeditionary Force was the combined military force of the Western Allies in Europe during World War II, commanded by General Dwight D. Eisenhower and responsible for operations such as the D-Day landings and the subsequent liberation of Western Europe.
  • E. British Egyptian Expeditionary Force
    The British Egyptian Expeditionary Force was a British-led military formation in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, responsible for major campaigns in Sinai, Palestine, and surrounding regions.
  • 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_69c68a5d0ed08190b6d361e68f813330 completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f1c4ad0081909386fbef9f61ae4c completed March 27, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c802d86da48190a1311c5c52a5f296 completed March 28, 2026, 4:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c80537c28c8190b1f6aff6da60d126 completed March 28, 2026, 4:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8059f89d08190be588df20c668408 completed March 28, 2026, 4:45 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:08 p.m.