Triple

T7630415
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Metz railway station E172745 entity
Predicate builtDuring P95 FINISHED
Object German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine
The German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine was the period from 1871 to 1918 when the region was incorporated into the German Empire following the Franco-Prussian War, marked by intense national rivalry, cultural Germanization policies, and strategic military and infrastructural development.
E652050 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 annexation of Alsace-Lorraine | Statement: [Metz railway station, builtDuring, German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine
Context triple: [Metz railway station, builtDuring, German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine]
  • A. German annexation of the Free City of Danzig
    The German annexation of the Free City of Danzig was the 1939 incorporation of the semi-autonomous Baltic port city into Nazi Germany, an aggressive move that helped trigger the outbreak of World War II.
  • B. Anschluss of Austria
    The Anschluss of Austria was the 1938 annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany, marking a key step in Hitler’s expansionist agenda before World War II.
  • C. Unification of Germany
    The Unification of Germany was the 19th-century process, largely driven by Prussia and Otto von Bismarck, that consolidated numerous independent German states into a single German nation-state proclaimed in 1871.
  • D. French annexation of Italian states
    The French annexation of Italian states was a series of early 19th-century expansions under Napoleon that absorbed numerous Italian territories into the French Empire, reshaping the political map of the Italian peninsula.
  • E. Schleswig-Holstein Question
    The Schleswig-Holstein Question was a complex 19th-century diplomatic and nationalistic dispute over the sovereignty and succession of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, involving Denmark, the German states, and major European powers.
  • 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 annexation of Alsace-Lorraine
Triple: [Metz railway station, builtDuring, German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine]
Generated description
The German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine was the period from 1871 to 1918 when the region was incorporated into the German Empire following the Franco-Prussian War, marked by intense national rivalry, cultural Germanization policies, and strategic military and infrastructural development.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine
Target entity description: The German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine was the period from 1871 to 1918 when the region was incorporated into the German Empire following the Franco-Prussian War, marked by intense national rivalry, cultural Germanization policies, and strategic military and infrastructural development.
  • A. German annexation of the Free City of Danzig
    The German annexation of the Free City of Danzig was the 1939 incorporation of the semi-autonomous Baltic port city into Nazi Germany, an aggressive move that helped trigger the outbreak of World War II.
  • B. Anschluss of Austria
    The Anschluss of Austria was the 1938 annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany, marking a key step in Hitler’s expansionist agenda before World War II.
  • C. Unification of Germany chosen
    The Unification of Germany was the 19th-century process, largely driven by Prussia and Otto von Bismarck, that consolidated numerous independent German states into a single German nation-state proclaimed in 1871.
  • D. French annexation of Italian states
    The French annexation of Italian states was a series of early 19th-century expansions under Napoleon that absorbed numerous Italian territories into the French Empire, reshaping the political map of the Italian peninsula.
  • E. Schleswig-Holstein Question
    The Schleswig-Holstein Question was a complex 19th-century diplomatic and nationalistic dispute over the sovereignty and succession of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, involving Denmark, the German states, and major European powers.
  • F. None of above.

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_69c699517e348190bd3348b6889200f2 completed March 27, 2026, 2:50 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6fa85c57c8190acfd33e0c890c2f9 completed March 27, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c870b3984c8190b16a49415556a27d completed March 29, 2026, 12:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c871945b8c8190a49d4abaca553668 completed March 29, 2026, 12:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c871f6cc5881909a0c65beaf713144 completed March 29, 2026, 12:27 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:56 p.m.