Triple

T2051272
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject USS Buck (DD-420) E45573 entity
Predicate sunkBy P4687 FINISHED
Object German submarine U-616
German submarine U-616 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine that operated in the Mediterranean during World War II, engaging Allied naval forces before being sunk in 1944.
E229054 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: German submarine U-616 | Statement: [USS Buck (DD-420), sunkBy, German submarine U-616]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: German submarine U-616
Context triple: [USS Buck (DD-420), sunkBy, German submarine U-616]
  • A. German tanker Altmark
    The German tanker Altmark was a World War II-era naval auxiliary ship of Nazi Germany, best known for its role in the 1940 Altmark Incident involving the rescue of British prisoners in Norwegian waters.
  • B. U-505 submarine
    The U-505 submarine is a captured German World War II U-boat preserved as a historic naval artifact and war prize.
  • C. Admiral Graf Spee
    Admiral Graf Spee was a German "pocket battleship" (heavy cruiser) of the Kriegsmarine famed for its commerce raiding in the South Atlantic and its scuttling after the Battle of the River Plate early in World War II.
  • D. Japanese submarine I-168
    Japanese submarine I-168 was an Imperial Japanese Navy fleet submarine best known for its role in the Battle of Midway, where it torpedoed and sank the damaged aircraft carrier USS Yorktown and the destroyer USS Hammann.
  • E. German battleship Bismarck
    The German battleship Bismarck was a powerful World War II Kriegsmarine warship famed for sinking HMS Hood and later being hunted down and destroyed by the Royal Navy in the Atlantic.
  • 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: German submarine U-616
Triple: [USS Buck (DD-420), sunkBy, German submarine U-616]
Generated description
German submarine U-616 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine that operated in the Mediterranean during World War II, engaging Allied naval forces before being sunk in 1944.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: German submarine U-616
Target entity description: German submarine U-616 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine that operated in the Mediterranean during World War II, engaging Allied naval forces before being sunk in 1944.
  • A. German tanker Altmark
    The German tanker Altmark was a World War II-era naval auxiliary ship of Nazi Germany, best known for its role in the 1940 Altmark Incident involving the rescue of British prisoners in Norwegian waters.
  • B. U-505 submarine
    The U-505 submarine is a captured German World War II U-boat preserved as a historic naval artifact and war prize.
  • C. Admiral Graf Spee
    Admiral Graf Spee was a German "pocket battleship" (heavy cruiser) of the Kriegsmarine famed for its commerce raiding in the South Atlantic and its scuttling after the Battle of the River Plate early in World War II.
  • D. Japanese submarine I-168
    Japanese submarine I-168 was an Imperial Japanese Navy fleet submarine best known for its role in the Battle of Midway, where it torpedoed and sank the damaged aircraft carrier USS Yorktown and the destroyer USS Hammann.
  • E. German battleship Bismarck
    The German battleship Bismarck was a powerful World War II Kriegsmarine warship famed for sinking HMS Hood and later being hunted down and destroyed by the Royal Navy in the Atlantic.
  • 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_69a8891948208190ab7898da21824c77 completed March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb98f5f4881908d9aa0f10be44041 completed March 7, 2026, 5:37 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae2009951881909d562821fef39c88 completed March 9, 2026, 1:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae20fbcd30819099499853d7dc2cc4 completed March 9, 2026, 1:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae216d450c8190ad2ecfdafa2354c7 completed March 9, 2026, 1:25 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:39 p.m.