Triple

T1534640
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Public Law 101-380 E32522 entity
Predicate motivatedByEvent P3224 FINISHED
Object Exxon Valdez oil spill
The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a catastrophic 1989 environmental disaster in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, where a supertanker ran aground and released millions of gallons of crude oil, causing massive ecological and economic damage.
E174539 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: Exxon Valdez oil spill | Statement: [Public Law 101-380, motivatedByEvent, Exxon Valdez oil spill]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Exxon Valdez oil spill
Context triple: [Public Law 101-380, motivatedByEvent, Exxon Valdez oil spill]
  • A. Deepwater Horizon oil spill
    The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was a massive 2010 offshore drilling disaster that released millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, causing one of the worst environmental catastrophes in U.S. history.
  • B. Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund
    The Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund is a U.S. federal fund that provides money for oil spill cleanup and damages when responsible parties cannot or do not pay.
  • C. Imo Incident
    The Imo Incident was an 1882 mutiny of Korean soldiers in Seoul that escalated into violent unrest and foreign intervention, highlighting Korea’s internal instability and vulnerability to outside powers.
  • D. Chernobyl disaster
    The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic 1986 nuclear power plant accident in Soviet-era Ukraine that released massive radioactive contamination across Europe and became one of the worst nuclear disasters in history.
  • E. Oil Pollution Act
    The Oil Pollution Act is a U.S. federal law that strengthens regulations and liability for oil spill prevention, response, and cleanup in American waters and shorelines.
  • 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: Exxon Valdez oil spill
Triple: [Public Law 101-380, motivatedByEvent, Exxon Valdez oil spill]
Generated description
The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a catastrophic 1989 environmental disaster in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, where a supertanker ran aground and released millions of gallons of crude oil, causing massive ecological and economic damage.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Exxon Valdez oil spill
Target entity description: The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a catastrophic 1989 environmental disaster in Alaska’s Prince William Sound, where a supertanker ran aground and released millions of gallons of crude oil, causing massive ecological and economic damage.
  • A. Deepwater Horizon oil spill
    The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was a massive 2010 offshore drilling disaster that released millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, causing one of the worst environmental catastrophes in U.S. history.
  • B. Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund
    The Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund is a U.S. federal fund that provides money for oil spill cleanup and damages when responsible parties cannot or do not pay.
  • C. Imo Incident
    The Imo Incident was an 1882 mutiny of Korean soldiers in Seoul that escalated into violent unrest and foreign intervention, highlighting Korea’s internal instability and vulnerability to outside powers.
  • D. Chernobyl disaster
    The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic 1986 nuclear power plant accident in Soviet-era Ukraine that released massive radioactive contamination across Europe and became one of the worst nuclear disasters in history.
  • E. Oil Pollution Act
    The Oil Pollution Act is a U.S. federal law that strengthens regulations and liability for oil spill prevention, response, and cleanup in American waters and shorelines.
  • 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_69a885ea86308190998f6bc14bb91f8e completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a90828cdf08190aa404a0c11335c7b completed March 5, 2026, 4:35 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad295da0988190b1dc171bcdfe4d71 completed March 8, 2026, 7:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad29dc9fd08190b67527f0662c92dc completed March 8, 2026, 7:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad2a4d71a88190b67ed21beebbb479 completed March 8, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:26 p.m.