Triple
T10139974
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Zephaniah Holwell |
E226954
|
entity |
| Predicate | described |
P264
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Black Hole of Calcutta |
E165007
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Black Hole of Calcutta | Statement: [John Zephaniah Holwell, described, Black Hole of Calcutta]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Black Hole of Calcutta Context triple: [John Zephaniah Holwell, described, Black Hole of Calcutta]
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A.
Black Hole of Calcutta
chosen
The Black Hole of Calcutta was a small prison cell in Fort William where a large number of British prisoners were allegedly confined overnight in 1756, resulting in many deaths and becoming a notorious symbol of colonial-era atrocity.
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B.
Great Calcutta Killings
The Great Calcutta Killings refers to the large-scale communal riots and massacres that erupted in Calcutta in August 1946, resulting in thousands of deaths amid rising Hindu-Muslim tensions on the eve of Indian independence and Partition.
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C.
Short Calcutta
The Short Calcutta was a British three-engined flying boat airliner of the late 1920s, used primarily on Imperial Airways’ Mediterranean and Empire routes.
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D.
Calcutta 71
Calcutta 71 is a 1972 Indian Bengali anthology film by Mrinal Sen that portrays the social and political unrest of different decades in Kolkata through four interlinked stories.
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E.
The Siege of Krishnapur
The Siege of Krishnapur is a historical novel by J.G. Farrell that vividly depicts a fictionalized British colonial outpost under siege during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, noted for its dark humor and critique of imperialism.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca8433ec308190b8b25a6fe359c34c |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cde8851844819092330e74561b7e34 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 3:54 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d300833e848190affe123d0286db56 |
completed | April 6, 2026, 12:38 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:07 p.m.