Triple
T13124289
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | United States occupation of Veracruz in 1914 |
E311803
|
entity |
| Predicate | relatedTo |
P37
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FINISHED |
| Object |
Tampico Affair
The Tampico Affair was a 1914 diplomatic incident between the United States and Mexico, involving the arrest of U.S. sailors in Tampico, that escalated tensions and helped trigger the U.S. occupation of Veracruz.
|
E311803
|
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: Tampico Affair | Statement: [United States occupation of Veracruz in 1914, relatedTo, Tampico Affair]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tampico Affair Context triple: [United States occupation of Veracruz in 1914, relatedTo, Tampico Affair]
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A.
Havana Affair
"Havana Affair" is a fast, punk rock song by the Ramones that reflects their early raw sound and themes of espionage and Cold War tension.
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B.
Tonkin Affair
The Tonkin Affair was a late 19th-century French political scandal and military setback in Indochina that provoked fierce parliamentary controversy and ultimately toppled the government of Jules Ferry.
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C.
United States occupation of Veracruz in 1914
The United States occupation of Veracruz in 1914 was a World War I–era intervention in Mexico in which U.S. forces seized the strategic Gulf Coast city to prevent a German arms shipment from reaching the government of Victoriano Huerta.
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D.
Trent Affair
The Trent Affair was an 1861 diplomatic crisis during the American Civil War in which the U.S. Navy’s seizure of two Confederate envoys from a British mail steamer nearly provoked war between the United States and the United Kingdom.
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E.
Siebold incident
The Siebold incident was a 19th-century diplomatic scandal in which German physician Philipp Franz von Siebold was expelled from Japan for allegedly smuggling sensitive maps and information, highlighting Japan’s strict isolationist policies of the time.
- 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: Tampico Affair Triple: [United States occupation of Veracruz in 1914, relatedTo, Tampico Affair]
Generated description
The Tampico Affair was a 1914 diplomatic incident between the United States and Mexico, involving the arrest of U.S. sailors in Tampico, that escalated tensions and helped trigger the U.S. occupation of Veracruz.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tampico Affair Target entity description: The Tampico Affair was a 1914 diplomatic incident between the United States and Mexico, involving the arrest of U.S. sailors in Tampico, that escalated tensions and helped trigger the U.S. occupation of Veracruz.
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A.
Havana Affair
"Havana Affair" is a fast, punk rock song by the Ramones that reflects their early raw sound and themes of espionage and Cold War tension.
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B.
Tonkin Affair
The Tonkin Affair was a late 19th-century French political scandal and military setback in Indochina that provoked fierce parliamentary controversy and ultimately toppled the government of Jules Ferry.
-
C.
United States occupation of Veracruz in 1914
chosen
The United States occupation of Veracruz in 1914 was a World War I–era intervention in Mexico in which U.S. forces seized the strategic Gulf Coast city to prevent a German arms shipment from reaching the government of Victoriano Huerta.
-
D.
Trent Affair
The Trent Affair was an 1861 diplomatic crisis during the American Civil War in which the U.S. Navy’s seizure of two Confederate envoys from a British mail steamer nearly provoked war between the United States and the United Kingdom.
-
E.
Siebold incident
The Siebold incident was a 19th-century diplomatic scandal in which German physician Philipp Franz von Siebold was expelled from Japan for allegedly smuggling sensitive maps and information, highlighting Japan’s strict isolationist policies of the time.
- F. None of above.
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_69d9819946808190b41335fb1054accd |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:02 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f6eade84f881909d5db24bc5c6e072 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 6:27 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69f6ebfc072c8190a8bcc1548301c5c8 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 6:32 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69f6ec901d68819092eb1d8ddf3317fa |
completed | May 3, 2026, 6:34 a.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:07 p.m.