Triple

T14125079
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charles Dwight Sigsbee E340007 entity
Predicate eventAssociatedWith P4073 FINISHED
Object sinking of USS Maine
The sinking of USS Maine was an 1898 explosion and loss of a U.S. Navy battleship in Havana Harbor that killed most of its crew and helped trigger the Spanish–American War.
E1082573 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: sinking of USS Maine | Statement: [Charles Dwight Sigsbee, eventAssociatedWith, sinking of USS Maine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: sinking of USS Maine
Context triple: [Charles Dwight Sigsbee, eventAssociatedWith, sinking of USS Maine]
  • A. sinking of the RMS Lusitania
    The sinking of the RMS Lusitania was a 1915 World War I maritime disaster in which a British ocean liner was torpedoed by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland, causing heavy civilian casualties and intensifying anti-German sentiment.
  • B. Disaster of 1898
    The Disaster of 1898 was the decisive defeat of Spain in the Spanish–American War, marking the loss of its last major colonies and the effective end of the Spanish Empire.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Capture of Veracruz (1862)
    The Capture of Veracruz (1862) was an early French military operation during the intervention in Mexico in which French forces seized the strategic Gulf port city to secure a foothold for their broader campaign.
  • E. Bombardment of San Juan
    The Bombardment of San Juan was a U.S. naval attack on the Spanish-held city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1898 during the Spanish–American War.
  • 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: sinking of USS Maine
Triple: [Charles Dwight Sigsbee, eventAssociatedWith, sinking of USS Maine]
Generated description
The sinking of USS Maine was an 1898 explosion and loss of a U.S. Navy battleship in Havana Harbor that killed most of its crew and helped trigger the Spanish–American War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: sinking of USS Maine
Target entity description: The sinking of USS Maine was an 1898 explosion and loss of a U.S. Navy battleship in Havana Harbor that killed most of its crew and helped trigger the Spanish–American War.
  • A. sinking of the RMS Lusitania
    The sinking of the RMS Lusitania was a 1915 World War I maritime disaster in which a British ocean liner was torpedoed by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland, causing heavy civilian casualties and intensifying anti-German sentiment.
  • B. Disaster of 1898
    The Disaster of 1898 was the decisive defeat of Spain in the Spanish–American War, marking the loss of its last major colonies and the effective end of the Spanish Empire.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Capture of Veracruz (1862)
    The Capture of Veracruz (1862) was an early French military operation during the intervention in Mexico in which French forces seized the strategic Gulf port city to secure a foothold for their broader campaign.
  • E. Bombardment of San Juan
    The Bombardment of San Juan was a U.S. naval attack on the Spanish-held city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1898 during the Spanish–American War.
  • 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_69d81c6a95b481909e39111e0c1f31ee completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de6096976481909dc79066c5165a50 completed April 14, 2026, 3:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fcdf0a7a7c8190860d8ce47b5f0732 completed May 7, 2026, 6:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fce0dec2488190be9c24d3744e7243 completed May 7, 2026, 6:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fce206b0588190a0f4b24231d3c365 completed May 7, 2026, 7:03 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:22 p.m.