Triple

T20659301
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Smârdan E507712 entity
Predicate precededBy P97 FINISHED
Object Siege operations around Vidin
Siege operations around Vidin were a series of late 19th-century military actions by Romanian and Russian forces against Ottoman-held Vidin during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878.
E1442788 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 operations around Vidin | Statement: [Battle of Smârdan, precededBy, Siege operations around Vidin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Siege operations around Vidin
Context triple: [Battle of Smârdan, precededBy, Siege operations around Vidin]
  • A. Siege of Shumen
    The Siege of Shumen was a major 1828 Russian attempt to capture the heavily fortified Ottoman stronghold of Shumen in Bulgaria, which played a key role in the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829.
  • B. Siege of Silistra
    The Siege of Silistra was an 1854 military engagement during the Crimean War in which Russian forces unsuccessfully besieged the Ottoman-held fortress city of Silistra on the Danube.
  • C. Sieges of Chyhyryn
    The Sieges of Chyhyryn were a series of 17th-century military campaigns in which the Tsardom of Russia and the Cossack Hetmanate clashed with the Ottoman Empire and its allies over control of the strategic fortress town of Chyhyryn in central Ukraine.
  • D. Siege of Plevna
    The Siege of Plevna was a major 1877 military engagement in the Russo-Turkish War where Ottoman forces under Osman Pasha mounted a prolonged and costly defense against Russian and Romanian armies, significantly influencing the course of the conflict.
  • E. Siege of Timișoara (1716)
    The Siege of Timișoara (1716) was a key Habsburg military campaign in the Austro-Turkish War that resulted in the capture of the Ottoman-held fortress city of Timișoara, consolidating Habsburg control over the Banat region.
  • 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 operations around Vidin
Triple: [Battle of Smârdan, precededBy, Siege operations around Vidin]
Generated description
Siege operations around Vidin were a series of late 19th-century military actions by Romanian and Russian forces against Ottoman-held Vidin during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Siege operations around Vidin
Target entity description: Siege operations around Vidin were a series of late 19th-century military actions by Romanian and Russian forces against Ottoman-held Vidin during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878.
  • A. Siege of Shumen
    The Siege of Shumen was a major 1828 Russian attempt to capture the heavily fortified Ottoman stronghold of Shumen in Bulgaria, which played a key role in the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829.
  • B. Siege of Silistra
    The Siege of Silistra was an 1854 military engagement during the Crimean War in which Russian forces unsuccessfully besieged the Ottoman-held fortress city of Silistra on the Danube.
  • C. Sieges of Chyhyryn
    The Sieges of Chyhyryn were a series of 17th-century military campaigns in which the Tsardom of Russia and the Cossack Hetmanate clashed with the Ottoman Empire and its allies over control of the strategic fortress town of Chyhyryn in central Ukraine.
  • D. Siege of Plevna
    The Siege of Plevna was a major 1877 military engagement in the Russo-Turkish War where Ottoman forces under Osman Pasha mounted a prolonged and costly defense against Russian and Romanian armies, significantly influencing the course of the conflict.
  • E. Siege of Timișoara (1716)
    The Siege of Timișoara (1716) was a key Habsburg military campaign in the Austro-Turkish War that resulted in the capture of the Ottoman-held fortress city of Timișoara, consolidating Habsburg control over the Banat region.
  • 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_69e0b4bf58c081908e52a4500e03ff83 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6b2eff7a88190be0bdea227616e02 completed April 20, 2026, 11:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08c59bcd4c8190925addae1e67c5b4 completed May 16, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08c6b50ea8819083ff85b85b2b6082 completed May 16, 2026, 7:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08c7bf78b48190936455734ecf055d completed May 16, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:43 a.m.