Triple

T10058166
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jules Ferry E208913 entity
Predicate causeOfPoliticalDownfall P1784 FINISHED
Object Tonkin Affair
The Tonkin Affair was a late 19th-century French political scandal and military setback in Indochina that provoked fierce parliamentary controversy and ultimately toppled the government of Jules Ferry.
E838719 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: Tonkin Affair | Statement: [Jules Ferry, causeOfPoliticalDownfall, Tonkin Affair]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tonkin Affair
Context triple: [Jules Ferry, causeOfPoliticalDownfall, Tonkin Affair]
  • A. Haiphong incident
    The Haiphong incident was a violent 1946 clash between French colonial forces and Vietnamese nationalists in the port city of Haiphong that escalated tensions and helped trigger the First Indochina War.
  • B. Trent Affair
    The Trent Affair was an 1861 diplomatic crisis during the American Civil War in which the U.S. Navy’s seizure of two Confederate envoys from a British mail steamer nearly provoked war between the United States and the United Kingdom.
  • C. Havana Affair
    "Havana Affair" is a fast, punk rock song by the Ramones that reflects their early raw sound and themes of espionage and Cold War tension.
  • D. Gulf of Tonkin incident
    The Gulf of Tonkin incident was a 1964 naval confrontation between North Vietnam and the United States that led to a major escalation of U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War.
  • E. Siebold incident
    The Siebold incident was a 19th-century diplomatic scandal in which German physician Philipp Franz von Siebold was expelled from Japan for allegedly smuggling sensitive maps and information, highlighting Japan’s strict isolationist policies of the time.
  • 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: Tonkin Affair
Triple: [Jules Ferry, causeOfPoliticalDownfall, Tonkin Affair]
Generated description
The Tonkin Affair was a late 19th-century French political scandal and military setback in Indochina that provoked fierce parliamentary controversy and ultimately toppled the government of Jules Ferry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tonkin Affair
Target entity description: The Tonkin Affair was a late 19th-century French political scandal and military setback in Indochina that provoked fierce parliamentary controversy and ultimately toppled the government of Jules Ferry.
  • A. Haiphong incident
    The Haiphong incident was a violent 1946 clash between French colonial forces and Vietnamese nationalists in the port city of Haiphong that escalated tensions and helped trigger the First Indochina War.
  • B. Trent Affair
    The Trent Affair was an 1861 diplomatic crisis during the American Civil War in which the U.S. Navy’s seizure of two Confederate envoys from a British mail steamer nearly provoked war between the United States and the United Kingdom.
  • C. Havana Affair
    "Havana Affair" is a fast, punk rock song by the Ramones that reflects their early raw sound and themes of espionage and Cold War tension.
  • D. Gulf of Tonkin incident
    The Gulf of Tonkin incident was a 1964 naval confrontation between North Vietnam and the United States that led to a major escalation of U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War.
  • E. Siebold incident
    The Siebold incident was a 19th-century diplomatic scandal in which German physician Philipp Franz von Siebold was expelled from Japan for allegedly smuggling sensitive maps and information, highlighting Japan’s strict isolationist policies of the time.
  • 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_69ca836094408190a36a1ea7e9a86fcd completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdcfaf7700819084dedf7b63e789c1 completed April 2, 2026, 2:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d29a5d4b308190b5b1ece1ca99be86 completed April 5, 2026, 5:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d29b7430248190b8965eaf1286dd7c completed April 5, 2026, 5:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d29c7ba9f081908f4614098d6c954b completed April 5, 2026, 5:31 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:57 p.m.