Triple

T13413931
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Mulholland E313160 entity
Predicate notableEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Owens Valley water rights controversy E71552 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Owens Valley water rights controversy | Statement: [William Mulholland, notableEvent, Owens Valley water rights controversy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Owens Valley water rights controversy
Context triple: [William Mulholland, notableEvent, Owens Valley water rights controversy]
  • A. Owens Valley water wars chosen
    The Owens Valley water wars were a series of early 20th-century conflicts in California over Los Angeles’ diversion of water from the Owens Valley, which devastated local agriculture and became a landmark case in Western water politics.
  • B. Hetch Hetchy water rights controversy
    The Hetch Hetchy water rights controversy was an early 20th-century environmental and political battle over damming a Yosemite valley to supply water to San Francisco, helping to define the modern American conservation movement.
  • C. Mono Lake water rights litigation
    Mono Lake water rights litigation refers to the series of landmark legal battles over Los Angeles’s diversion of water from the Mono Basin, which reshaped California water law by strengthening public trust protections for environmental resources.
  • D. Truckee-Carson-Pyramid Lake Water Rights Settlement Act of 1990
    The Truckee-Carson-Pyramid Lake Water Rights Settlement Act of 1990 is a U.S. federal law that resolves long-standing water allocation disputes in the Truckee, Carson, and Pyramid Lake basins, particularly balancing tribal, agricultural, and environmental water rights in Nevada and California.
  • E. Yazoo land controversy resolution
    The Yazoo land controversy resolution was the early 19th-century settlement of a massive Georgia land fraud scandal, in which the federal government compensated claimants and helped define federal authority over state land claims.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69d806ad0c44819088833ae1ec9e9690 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbaeb556948190af008c88e5bbf051 completed April 12, 2026, 2:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7307e9b5881908eb2cd9e4fa7c5f2 completed May 3, 2026, 11:24 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:39 p.m.