Triple

T9798274
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject South African Border War E237770 entity
Predicate significantEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Operation Modular
Operation Modular was a major 1987 South African Defence Force offensive in Angola during the South African Border War, aimed at halting advancing Angolan and Cuban forces near Cuito Cuanavale.
E821152 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: Operation Modular | Statement: [South African Border War, significantEvent, Operation Modular]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Operation Modular
Context triple: [South African Border War, significantEvent, Operation Modular]
  • A. Operation Mandrel
    Operation Mandrel was a series of U.S. nuclear weapons tests conducted during the Cold War as part of the broader American nuclear testing program.
  • B. Operation MI
    Operation MI was the Imperial Japanese Navy’s World War II plan to seize Midway Atoll, culminating in the pivotal Battle of Midway in June 1942.
  • C. Operation Obviate
    Operation Obviate was a World War II Royal Air Force bombing raid in 1944 aimed at destroying the German battleship Tirpitz in Norway.
  • D. Operation Source
    Operation Source was a British World War II midget-submarine attack aimed at crippling the German battleship Tirpitz in a Norwegian fjord.
  • E. Operation Crimp
    Operation Crimp was a major 1966 U.S.-Australian military offensive during the Vietnam War aimed at disrupting Viet Cong operations in the Cu Chi region by searching for and destroying their extensive tunnel network.
  • 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: Operation Modular
Triple: [South African Border War, significantEvent, Operation Modular]
Generated description
Operation Modular was a major 1987 South African Defence Force offensive in Angola during the South African Border War, aimed at halting advancing Angolan and Cuban forces near Cuito Cuanavale.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Operation Modular
Target entity description: Operation Modular was a major 1987 South African Defence Force offensive in Angola during the South African Border War, aimed at halting advancing Angolan and Cuban forces near Cuito Cuanavale.
  • A. Operation Mandrel
    Operation Mandrel was a series of U.S. nuclear weapons tests conducted during the Cold War as part of the broader American nuclear testing program.
  • B. Operation MI
    Operation MI was the Imperial Japanese Navy’s World War II plan to seize Midway Atoll, culminating in the pivotal Battle of Midway in June 1942.
  • C. Operation Obviate
    Operation Obviate was a World War II Royal Air Force bombing raid in 1944 aimed at destroying the German battleship Tirpitz in Norway.
  • D. Operation Source
    Operation Source was a British World War II midget-submarine attack aimed at crippling the German battleship Tirpitz in a Norwegian fjord.
  • E. Operation Crimp
    Operation Crimp was a major 1966 U.S.-Australian military offensive during the Vietnam War aimed at disrupting Viet Cong operations in the Cu Chi region by searching for and destroying their extensive tunnel network.
  • 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_69ca84dc04488190b9c91193976c0960 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cda627cc2c81909ccc2e26751f5e85 completed April 1, 2026, 11:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1c445c81481908700ffde5dd28936 completed April 5, 2026, 2:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1c4c37e248190a1b10cf6d0056c02 completed April 5, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1c56957f8819080eca0a71c24f86a completed April 5, 2026, 2:14 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:28 p.m.