Triple

T13959
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Midway E279 entity
Predicate lostByUnitedStates P356 FINISHED
Object destroyer USS Hammann (DD-412)
The destroyer USS Hammann (DD-412) was a U.S. Navy Sims-class destroyer that served in the Pacific during World War II and was sunk while assisting the damaged aircraft carrier USS Yorktown at the Battle of Midway.
E1502 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: destroyer USS Hammann (DD-412) | Statement: [Battle of Midway, lostByUnitedStates, destroyer USS Hammann (DD-412)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: destroyer USS Hammann (DD-412)
Context triple: [Battle of Midway, lostByUnitedStates, destroyer USS Hammann (DD-412)]
  • A. USS Arizona (BB-39)
    USS Arizona (BB-39) was a Pennsylvania-class U.S. Navy battleship whose catastrophic destruction and loss of life during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor made it one of the most iconic symbols of the United States’ entry into World War II.
  • B. United States Navy
    The United States Navy is the maritime service branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, responsible for naval warfare, power projection, and maintaining freedom of navigation across the world’s oceans.
  • C. Imperial Japanese Navy
    The Imperial Japanese Navy was the maritime military force of the Empire of Japan, renowned for its powerful carrier fleet and major role in naval battles across the Pacific during World War II.
  • D. Battle of Midway
    The Battle of Midway was a pivotal 1942 naval engagement in the Pacific Theater where the United States decisively defeated Japan’s carrier fleet, marking a major turning point in World War II.
  • E. United States Coast Guard
    The United States Coast Guard is a U.S. maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service responsible for safeguarding the nation’s coasts, waterways, and maritime interests.
  • 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: destroyer USS Hammann (DD-412)
Triple: [Battle of Midway, lostByUnitedStates, destroyer USS Hammann (DD-412)]
Generated description
The destroyer USS Hammann (DD-412) was a U.S. Navy Sims-class destroyer that served in the Pacific during World War II and was sunk while assisting the damaged aircraft carrier USS Yorktown at the Battle of Midway.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: destroyer USS Hammann (DD-412)
Target entity description: The destroyer USS Hammann (DD-412) was a U.S. Navy Sims-class destroyer that served in the Pacific during World War II and was sunk while assisting the damaged aircraft carrier USS Yorktown at the Battle of Midway.
  • A. USS Arizona (BB-39)
    USS Arizona (BB-39) was a Pennsylvania-class U.S. Navy battleship whose catastrophic destruction and loss of life during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor made it one of the most iconic symbols of the United States’ entry into World War II.
  • B. United States Navy
    The United States Navy is the maritime service branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, responsible for naval warfare, power projection, and maintaining freedom of navigation across the world’s oceans.
  • C. Imperial Japanese Navy
    The Imperial Japanese Navy was the maritime military force of the Empire of Japan, renowned for its powerful carrier fleet and major role in naval battles across the Pacific during World War II.
  • D. Battle of Midway
    The Battle of Midway was a pivotal 1942 naval engagement in the Pacific Theater where the United States decisively defeated Japan’s carrier fleet, marking a major turning point in World War II.
  • E. United States Coast Guard
    The United States Coast Guard is a U.S. maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service responsible for safeguarding the nation’s coasts, waterways, and maritime interests.
  • 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_69a23d7ad88c8190bffe8ab091d86642 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:57 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2465c52d8819082bb02b8b539d6ab completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:35 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a248e572f08190b52158e063a066bf completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2497d04248190a0a9037f79a932ef completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a249dbe1108190a2a844ba4e570fea completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:50 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:02 a.m.