Triple

T13120727
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kansas Territory E311711 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object Border ruffians
Border ruffians were pro-slavery militants from Missouri who crossed into Kansas Territory in the 1850s to intimidate voters and influence whether Kansas would enter the Union as a slave state.
E1022831 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: Border ruffians | Statement: [Kansas Territory, associatedWith, Border ruffians]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Border ruffians
Context triple: [Kansas Territory, associatedWith, Border ruffians]
  • A. Quitman
    Quitman is a surname most notably associated with John A. Quitman, a 19th-century American politician and military figure.
  • B. Rough and Ready
    Rough and Ready is a 19th-century boys’ adventure novel by Horatio Alger Jr., continuing the rags-to-respectability themes introduced in his earlier work Ragged Dick.
  • C. Gunmen of the Rio Grande
    Gunmen of the Rio Grande is a 1960s Italian-American Western film starring Guy Madison as a gunfighter caught in frontier conflicts.
  • D. The Return of Jesse James
    The Return of Jesse James is a 1950 American Western film that follows an outlaw gang’s attempt to exploit the legend of the deceased Jesse James by using his look-alike as a stand-in.
  • E. Three Fugitives
    Three Fugitives is a 1989 American comedy film starring Nick Nolte and Martin Short about an ex-convict and an inept bank robber who become unlikely partners while on the run with a young girl.
  • 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: Border ruffians
Triple: [Kansas Territory, associatedWith, Border ruffians]
Generated description
Border ruffians were pro-slavery militants from Missouri who crossed into Kansas Territory in the 1850s to intimidate voters and influence whether Kansas would enter the Union as a slave state.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Border ruffians
Target entity description: Border ruffians were pro-slavery militants from Missouri who crossed into Kansas Territory in the 1850s to intimidate voters and influence whether Kansas would enter the Union as a slave state.
  • A. Quitman
    Quitman is a surname most notably associated with John A. Quitman, a 19th-century American politician and military figure.
  • B. Rough and Ready
    Rough and Ready is a 19th-century boys’ adventure novel by Horatio Alger Jr., continuing the rags-to-respectability themes introduced in his earlier work Ragged Dick.
  • C. Gunmen of the Rio Grande
    Gunmen of the Rio Grande is a 1960s Italian-American Western film starring Guy Madison as a gunfighter caught in frontier conflicts.
  • D. The Return of Jesse James
    The Return of Jesse James is a 1950 American Western film that follows an outlaw gang’s attempt to exploit the legend of the deceased Jesse James by using his look-alike as a stand-in.
  • E. Three Fugitives
    Three Fugitives is a 1989 American comedy film starring Nick Nolte and Martin Short about an ex-convict and an inept bank robber who become unlikely partners while on the run with a young girl.
  • 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_69d806a9fe888190b081e2d9ea665d6c completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98196e69081909111407ee3d9f08e completed April 10, 2026, 11:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6e286de608190bf46af2eb656bb79 completed May 3, 2026, 5:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6e42cd5408190b687dfae73e2a720 completed May 3, 2026, 5:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6e5293ee481908d9a90266ac5c3e6 completed May 3, 2026, 6:03 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:06 p.m.