Triple

T1093765
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nixon administration E24224 entity
Predicate significantEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Kent State shootings
The Kent State shootings were a 1970 incident in which National Guard troops opened fire on unarmed students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University, killing four and wounding nine others.
E125735 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: Kent State shootings | Statement: [Nixon administration, significantEvent, Kent State shootings]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kent State shootings
Context triple: [Nixon administration, significantEvent, Kent State shootings]
  • A. Colfax massacre
    The Colfax massacre was an 1873 episode of racial and political violence in Louisiana in which white supremacists killed dozens of Black freedmen, marking one of the deadliest incidents of Reconstruction-era terror and undermining Black civil rights in the post–Civil War South.
  • B. Watertown, Massachusetts shootout
    The Watertown, Massachusetts shootout was the intense armed confrontation in April 2013 between law enforcement and the Boston Marathon bombing suspects that led to one suspect’s death and the manhunt’s dramatic conclusion.
  • C. Waco siege
    The Waco siege was a 1993 law enforcement standoff in Texas between U.S. federal agencies and the Branch Davidians religious sect that ended in a deadly fire and remains one of the most controversial operations in modern American policing.
  • D. My Lai massacre
    The My Lai massacre was a notorious 1968 atrocity during the Vietnam War in which U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, becoming a symbol of the conflict’s brutality and sparking widespread outrage.
  • E. Bloody Sunday
    Bloody Sunday was a 1972 incident in Derry, Northern Ireland, when British soldiers shot and killed unarmed civil rights protesters, becoming one of the most infamous and galvanizing events of the Troubles.
  • 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: Kent State shootings
Triple: [Nixon administration, significantEvent, Kent State shootings]
Generated description
The Kent State shootings were a 1970 incident in which National Guard troops opened fire on unarmed students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University, killing four and wounding nine others.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kent State shootings
Target entity description: The Kent State shootings were a 1970 incident in which National Guard troops opened fire on unarmed students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University, killing four and wounding nine others.
  • A. Colfax massacre
    The Colfax massacre was an 1873 episode of racial and political violence in Louisiana in which white supremacists killed dozens of Black freedmen, marking one of the deadliest incidents of Reconstruction-era terror and undermining Black civil rights in the post–Civil War South.
  • B. Watertown, Massachusetts shootout
    The Watertown, Massachusetts shootout was the intense armed confrontation in April 2013 between law enforcement and the Boston Marathon bombing suspects that led to one suspect’s death and the manhunt’s dramatic conclusion.
  • C. Waco siege
    The Waco siege was a 1993 law enforcement standoff in Texas between U.S. federal agencies and the Branch Davidians religious sect that ended in a deadly fire and remains one of the most controversial operations in modern American policing.
  • D. My Lai massacre
    The My Lai massacre was a notorious 1968 atrocity during the Vietnam War in which U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, becoming a symbol of the conflict’s brutality and sparking widespread outrage.
  • E. Bloody Sunday
    Bloody Sunday was a 1972 incident in Derry, Northern Ireland, when British soldiers shot and killed unarmed civil rights protesters, becoming one of the most infamous and galvanizing events of the Troubles.
  • 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_69a4940542308190ac2a0b1f730b7cfc completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b99d1e8c81909cf1178d68d38885 completed March 1, 2026, 10:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac4c2c6b048190b603e9562dde65d0 completed March 7, 2026, 4:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac4ca07ce88190bfbf959adc84a74e completed March 7, 2026, 4:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac4d3f62c881908e189bfe8cbbd2ac completed March 7, 2026, 4:07 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.