Triple

T10653182
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Order of Mendi for Bravery E251023 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object SS Mendi
SS Mendi was a British troopship that sank in 1917 off the Isle of Wight while carrying South African soldiers, becoming a symbol of sacrifice and remembrance in South African history.
E877365 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: SS Mendi | Statement: [Order of Mendi for Bravery, namedAfter, SS Mendi]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: SS Mendi
Context triple: [Order of Mendi for Bravery, namedAfter, SS Mendi]
  • A. HMS Macedonia
    HMS Macedonia was a British Royal Navy cruiser that took part in World War I naval operations, including actions associated with the Battle of the Falkland Islands.
  • B. SS Mont-Blanc
    SS Mont-Blanc was a French cargo ship laden with explosives whose detonation in 1917 caused the catastrophic Halifax Explosion, one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in history.
  • C. HMS Macedonian
    HMS Macedonian was a British Royal Navy frigate famously captured by the American frigate USS United States during the War of 1812 and subsequently taken into U.S. service.
  • D. HMS Strafford
    HMS Strafford was a Royal Navy warship that served in the early 18th century, notably participating in British naval operations in the Caribbean during the War of Jenkins’ Ear.
  • E. RMS Lancastria
    RMS Lancastria was a British Cunard passenger liner requisitioned as a troopship in World War II, best known for its catastrophic sinking by German air attack off Saint-Nazaire in 1940, which resulted in one of the deadliest maritime disasters in British history.
  • 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: SS Mendi
Triple: [Order of Mendi for Bravery, namedAfter, SS Mendi]
Generated description
SS Mendi was a British troopship that sank in 1917 off the Isle of Wight while carrying South African soldiers, becoming a symbol of sacrifice and remembrance in South African history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: SS Mendi
Target entity description: SS Mendi was a British troopship that sank in 1917 off the Isle of Wight while carrying South African soldiers, becoming a symbol of sacrifice and remembrance in South African history.
  • A. HMS Macedonia
    HMS Macedonia was a British Royal Navy cruiser that took part in World War I naval operations, including actions associated with the Battle of the Falkland Islands.
  • B. SS Mont-Blanc
    SS Mont-Blanc was a French cargo ship laden with explosives whose detonation in 1917 caused the catastrophic Halifax Explosion, one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in history.
  • C. HMS Macedonian
    HMS Macedonian was a British Royal Navy frigate famously captured by the American frigate USS United States during the War of 1812 and subsequently taken into U.S. service.
  • D. HMS Strafford
    HMS Strafford was a Royal Navy warship that served in the early 18th century, notably participating in British naval operations in the Caribbean during the War of Jenkins’ Ear.
  • E. RMS Lancastria
    RMS Lancastria was a British Cunard passenger liner requisitioned as a troopship in World War II, best known for its catastrophic sinking by German air attack off Saint-Nazaire in 1940, which resulted in one of the deadliest maritime disasters in British history.
  • 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_69d6aa5a4c4881908f39be6efe5981e5 completed April 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d6dff85674819099bf40c9f4fede15 completed April 8, 2026, 11:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d97a71fac48190a6d7c99ebc5aad0a completed April 10, 2026, 10:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d97cc2b66c8190909a23927fbe3af5 completed April 10, 2026, 10:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d97e13913081908dd1fb60fa44db05 completed April 10, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:06 p.m.