Triple

T8012252
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Franco-Spanish War (1673–1678) E186521 entity
Predicate significantBattle P259 FINISHED
Object Siege of Valenciennes (1677)
The Siege of Valenciennes (1677) was a major French victory under Louis XIV during the Franco-Dutch War, in which Vauban’s siege tactics enabled the capture of the strategically important fortress city from Spanish control.
E707419 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: Siege of Valenciennes (1677) | Statement: [Franco-Spanish War (1673–1678), significantBattle, Siege of Valenciennes (1677)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Siege of Valenciennes (1677)
Context triple: [Franco-Spanish War (1673–1678), significantBattle, Siege of Valenciennes (1677)]
  • A. Battle of Valenciennes (1656)
    The Battle of Valenciennes (1656) was a major engagement of the Franco-Spanish War in which Spanish forces decisively defeated a French army attempting to capture the fortified city of Valenciennes in the Spanish Netherlands.
  • B. Siege of Douai (1667)
    The Siege of Douai (1667) was a key French operation during Louis XIV’s early expansionist campaigns, in which French forces captured the fortified town of Douai from the Spanish Netherlands.
  • C. Siege of Tournai (1667)
    The Siege of Tournai (1667) was a key early French victory under Louis XIV during his invasion of the Spanish Netherlands in the War of Devolution.
  • D. Siege of Valenciennes (1793)
    The Siege of Valenciennes (1793) was a major French Revolutionary War engagement in which Coalition forces captured the fortified French city of Valenciennes, marking a significant setback for the French on the Western Front of the War of the First Coalition.
  • E. Siege of Lille (1667)
    The Siege of Lille (1667) was a major French offensive operation during Louis XIV’s early wars that secured the strategic Flemish city of Lille from Spanish control.
  • 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: Siege of Valenciennes (1677)
Triple: [Franco-Spanish War (1673–1678), significantBattle, Siege of Valenciennes (1677)]
Generated description
The Siege of Valenciennes (1677) was a major French victory under Louis XIV during the Franco-Dutch War, in which Vauban’s siege tactics enabled the capture of the strategically important fortress city from Spanish control.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Siege of Valenciennes (1677)
Target entity description: The Siege of Valenciennes (1677) was a major French victory under Louis XIV during the Franco-Dutch War, in which Vauban’s siege tactics enabled the capture of the strategically important fortress city from Spanish control.
  • A. Battle of Valenciennes (1656)
    The Battle of Valenciennes (1656) was a major engagement of the Franco-Spanish War in which Spanish forces decisively defeated a French army attempting to capture the fortified city of Valenciennes in the Spanish Netherlands.
  • B. Siege of Douai (1667)
    The Siege of Douai (1667) was a key French operation during Louis XIV’s early expansionist campaigns, in which French forces captured the fortified town of Douai from the Spanish Netherlands.
  • C. Siege of Tournai (1667)
    The Siege of Tournai (1667) was a key early French victory under Louis XIV during his invasion of the Spanish Netherlands in the War of Devolution.
  • D. Siege of Valenciennes (1793)
    The Siege of Valenciennes (1793) was a major French Revolutionary War engagement in which Coalition forces captured the fortified French city of Valenciennes, marking a significant setback for the French on the Western Front of the War of the First Coalition.
  • E. Siege of Lille (1667)
    The Siege of Lille (1667) was a major French offensive operation during Louis XIV’s early wars that secured the strategic Flemish city of Lille from Spanish control.
  • 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_69ca82abaffc8190ab8af79cdbc31ab3 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb3d73bf048190ad8066a7e95c34b0 completed March 31, 2026, 3:20 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cc56acfcf88190a0e694f60f2907d2 completed March 31, 2026, 11:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc58a9e94081908980e2c60be38642 completed March 31, 2026, 11:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc5cb791b48190bd5004b518d23f84 completed March 31, 2026, 11:45 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:19 p.m.