Triple

T15251043
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Portuguese expansion into North Africa E364517 entity
Predicate hasKeyEvent P811 FINISHED
Object Evacuation of Safi and Azemmour
The Evacuation of Safi and Azemmour was a 16th-century Portuguese withdrawal from two key coastal strongholds in Morocco, marking a major setback in Portugal’s North African ambitions.
E1146008 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: Evacuation of Safi and Azemmour | Statement: [Portuguese expansion into North Africa, hasKeyEvent, Evacuation of Safi and Azemmour]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Evacuation of Safi and Azemmour
Context triple: [Portuguese expansion into North Africa, hasKeyEvent, Evacuation of Safi and Azemmour]
  • A. Siege of Melilla
    The Siege of Melilla was a late 19th-century military confrontation in which Moroccan forces besieged the Spanish-held North African enclave of Melilla, becoming a key episode in Spain’s colonial campaigns in Morocco.
  • B. French landing at Sidi Ferruch
    The French landing at Sidi Ferruch was the 1830 amphibious operation by French forces on the Algerian coast that initiated the invasion of Algiers and the broader French conquest of Algeria.
  • C. Capture of Touggourt
    The Capture of Touggourt was a French military operation in the mid-19th century that secured the oasis town of Touggourt in the Sahara, extending French colonial control deeper into southern Algeria.
  • D. Fall of Tripoli (1289)
    The Fall of Tripoli (1289) was a decisive Mamluk conquest of the Crusader-held city of Tripoli in present-day Lebanon, marking a major step in the collapse of the remaining Crusader states in the Levant.
  • E. siege of Cirta
    The siege of Cirta was a key early confrontation in the Jugurthine War, where Jugurtha’s brutal capture of the city and execution of Italian residents provoked Roman outrage and full-scale intervention in Numidia.
  • 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: Evacuation of Safi and Azemmour
Triple: [Portuguese expansion into North Africa, hasKeyEvent, Evacuation of Safi and Azemmour]
Generated description
The Evacuation of Safi and Azemmour was a 16th-century Portuguese withdrawal from two key coastal strongholds in Morocco, marking a major setback in Portugal’s North African ambitions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Evacuation of Safi and Azemmour
Target entity description: The Evacuation of Safi and Azemmour was a 16th-century Portuguese withdrawal from two key coastal strongholds in Morocco, marking a major setback in Portugal’s North African ambitions.
  • A. Siege of Melilla
    The Siege of Melilla was a late 19th-century military confrontation in which Moroccan forces besieged the Spanish-held North African enclave of Melilla, becoming a key episode in Spain’s colonial campaigns in Morocco.
  • B. French landing at Sidi Ferruch
    The French landing at Sidi Ferruch was the 1830 amphibious operation by French forces on the Algerian coast that initiated the invasion of Algiers and the broader French conquest of Algeria.
  • C. Capture of Touggourt
    The Capture of Touggourt was a French military operation in the mid-19th century that secured the oasis town of Touggourt in the Sahara, extending French colonial control deeper into southern Algeria.
  • D. Fall of Tripoli (1289)
    The Fall of Tripoli (1289) was a decisive Mamluk conquest of the Crusader-held city of Tripoli in present-day Lebanon, marking a major step in the collapse of the remaining Crusader states in the Levant.
  • E. siege of Cirta
    The siege of Cirta was a key early confrontation in the Jugurthine War, where Jugurtha’s brutal capture of the city and execution of Italian residents provoked Roman outrage and full-scale intervention in Numidia.
  • 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_69d85a0dde7481908fc64d1e82d5d20d completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e007f728648190b2c86e4528542b65 completed April 15, 2026, 9:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fee5f390bc8190bc0180c118e1523c completed May 9, 2026, 7:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fee68055b88190afa0e3b1bc2b13bb completed May 9, 2026, 7:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fee7190a6c81908fa7376f3e3c5371 completed May 9, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:13 a.m.