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]
  • 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
  • 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.