Triple
T11749904
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Great Chinese Famine |
E279377
|
entity |
| Predicate | alsoKnownAs |
P39
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Three Years of Great Famine
Three Years of Great Famine refers to the catastrophic nationwide famine in China from 1959 to 1961, during which tens of millions of people died amid policies associated with the Great Leap Forward and adverse natural conditions.
|
E944867
|
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: Three Years of Great Famine | Statement: [Great Chinese Famine, alsoKnownAs, Three Years of Great Famine]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Three Years of Great Famine Context triple: [Great Chinese Famine, alsoKnownAs, Three Years of Great Famine]
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A.
Famine
Famine is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, symbolizing extreme scarcity of food and widespread starvation.
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B.
The Seven Years of Famine in Egypt
The Seven Years of Famine in Egypt is a religious-historical painting by German Nazarene artist Johann Friedrich Overbeck depicting the biblical story of Egypt’s protracted famine under Joseph.
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C.
Great Famine
The Great Famine was a catastrophic mid-19th-century potato blight in Ireland that caused mass starvation, disease, and a huge wave of emigration, particularly to North America.
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D.
Poverty and Famines
Poverty and Famines is a seminal book by economist Amartya Sen that revolutionized the understanding of famine by arguing that they result more from failures of access and entitlement than from food shortages alone.
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E.
Russian famine of 1601–1603
The Russian famine of 1601–1603 was a catastrophic nationwide food crisis that killed hundreds of thousands and helped trigger the political chaos and dynastic struggles of Russia’s Time of 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: Three Years of Great Famine Triple: [Great Chinese Famine, alsoKnownAs, Three Years of Great Famine]
Generated description
Three Years of Great Famine refers to the catastrophic nationwide famine in China from 1959 to 1961, during which tens of millions of people died amid policies associated with the Great Leap Forward and adverse natural conditions.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Three Years of Great Famine Target entity description: Three Years of Great Famine refers to the catastrophic nationwide famine in China from 1959 to 1961, during which tens of millions of people died amid policies associated with the Great Leap Forward and adverse natural conditions.
-
A.
Famine
Famine is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, symbolizing extreme scarcity of food and widespread starvation.
-
B.
The Seven Years of Famine in Egypt
The Seven Years of Famine in Egypt is a religious-historical painting by German Nazarene artist Johann Friedrich Overbeck depicting the biblical story of Egypt’s protracted famine under Joseph.
-
C.
Great Famine
The Great Famine was a catastrophic mid-19th-century potato blight in Ireland that caused mass starvation, disease, and a huge wave of emigration, particularly to North America.
-
D.
Poverty and Famines
Poverty and Famines is a seminal book by economist Amartya Sen that revolutionized the understanding of famine by arguing that they result more from failures of access and entitlement than from food shortages alone.
-
E.
Russian famine of 1601–1603
The Russian famine of 1601–1603 was a catastrophic nationwide food crisis that killed hundreds of thousands and helped trigger the political chaos and dynastic struggles of Russia’s Time of 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_69d6ab01038c819080714901502c84fc |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d8a508b0c4819082fbcc27d559ea2f |
completed | April 10, 2026, 7:21 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f01a0492b48190b6f2e3cf36b4f537 |
completed | April 28, 2026, 2:23 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69f0319622c48190bee6c906f08c0a8c |
completed | April 28, 2026, 4:03 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69f05ad36e4c8190b7239e5b33713369 |
completed | April 28, 2026, 6:59 a.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:41 p.m.