Triple

T1544372
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jamestown E32942 entity
Predicate significantEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Starving Time (1609–1610)
The Starving Time (1609–1610) was a catastrophic period of famine, disease, and conflict that nearly wiped out the English settlers at Jamestown during the early years of the Virginia Colony.
E175574 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: Starving Time (1609–1610) | Statement: [Jamestown, significantEvent, Starving Time (1609–1610)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Starving Time (1609–1610)
Context triple: [Jamestown, significantEvent, Starving Time (1609–1610)]
  • A. Kieft's War
    Kieft's War was a violent 1643–1645 conflict between Dutch colonists of New Netherland and local Native American tribes, sparked by Governor Willem Kieft’s aggressive policies and raids.
  • B. Great Famine
    The Great Famine was a catastrophic mid-19th-century potato blight in Ireland that caused mass starvation, disease, and a huge wave of emigration, particularly to North America.
  • C. Great Famine of 1315–1317
    The Great Famine of 1315–1317 was a devastating pan-European food crisis marked by widespread crop failures, mass starvation, and social upheaval that profoundly weakened medieval European society.
  • D. Rampjaar (Disaster Year) 1672
    Rampjaar (Disaster Year) 1672 was a catastrophic year in Dutch history marked by simultaneous invasions by France, England, and German states, leading to political upheaval and near-collapse of the Dutch Republic.
  • E. King Philip's War
    King Philip's War was a devastating 17th-century conflict between Native American inhabitants of New England and English colonists that resulted in massive casualties, the destruction of many Indigenous communities, and a lasting shift in regional power.
  • 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: Starving Time (1609–1610)
Triple: [Jamestown, significantEvent, Starving Time (1609–1610)]
Generated description
The Starving Time (1609–1610) was a catastrophic period of famine, disease, and conflict that nearly wiped out the English settlers at Jamestown during the early years of the Virginia Colony.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Starving Time (1609–1610)
Target entity description: The Starving Time (1609–1610) was a catastrophic period of famine, disease, and conflict that nearly wiped out the English settlers at Jamestown during the early years of the Virginia Colony.
  • A. Kieft's War
    Kieft's War was a violent 1643–1645 conflict between Dutch colonists of New Netherland and local Native American tribes, sparked by Governor Willem Kieft’s aggressive policies and raids.
  • B. Great Famine
    The Great Famine was a catastrophic mid-19th-century potato blight in Ireland that caused mass starvation, disease, and a huge wave of emigration, particularly to North America.
  • C. Great Famine of 1315–1317
    The Great Famine of 1315–1317 was a devastating pan-European food crisis marked by widespread crop failures, mass starvation, and social upheaval that profoundly weakened medieval European society.
  • D. Rampjaar (Disaster Year) 1672
    Rampjaar (Disaster Year) 1672 was a catastrophic year in Dutch history marked by simultaneous invasions by France, England, and German states, leading to political upheaval and near-collapse of the Dutch Republic.
  • E. King Philip's War
    King Philip's War was a devastating 17th-century conflict between Native American inhabitants of New England and English colonists that resulted in massive casualties, the destruction of many Indigenous communities, and a lasting shift in regional power.
  • 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_69a885ed29088190a3c2d5a3d100c16e completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a90842a4788190a812b48987503624 completed March 5, 2026, 4:36 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad309dcc3c819096a796a330a16de1 completed March 8, 2026, 8:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad313ff5e48190bcd44f5211edf414 completed March 8, 2026, 8:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad31edfb848190a3f7309fa1d2150a completed March 8, 2026, 8:23 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:26 p.m.