Triple

T2130901
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Apache Wars E46534 entity
Predicate significantEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Bascom Affair
The Bascom Affair was an 1861 confrontation between the U.S. Army and the Chiricahua Apache that sparked a cycle of violence and is often seen as the event that ignited the Apache Wars.
E237452 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: Bascom Affair | Statement: [Apache Wars, significantEvent, Bascom Affair]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bascom Affair
Context triple: [Apache Wars, significantEvent, Bascom Affair]
  • A. Toledo War
    The Toledo War was a 19th-century boundary dispute between the U.S. states of Ohio and Michigan over control of the Toledo Strip, resolved largely through political negotiation rather than armed conflict.
  • B. Beecher–Tilton scandal
    The Beecher–Tilton scandal was a highly publicized 1870s adultery and seduction controversy involving famed preacher Henry Ward Beecher and Elizabeth Tilton that captivated and divided Victorian-era American society.
  • C. Calas affair
    The Calas affair was an 18th-century French legal case involving the wrongful execution of Protestant merchant Jean Calas, which became a symbol of religious intolerance and judicial injustice and inspired Voltaire’s campaign for civil rights and legal reform.
  • D. XYZ Affair
    The XYZ Affair was a late 1790s diplomatic scandal between the United States and France, in which French agents demanded bribes from American envoys, inflaming anti-French sentiment and helping spark the Quasi-War.
  • E. Teapot Dome scandal
    The Teapot Dome scandal was a major 1920s U.S. political corruption case involving the secret leasing of federal oil reserves that severely damaged public trust in the Harding administration.
  • 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: Bascom Affair
Triple: [Apache Wars, significantEvent, Bascom Affair]
Generated description
The Bascom Affair was an 1861 confrontation between the U.S. Army and the Chiricahua Apache that sparked a cycle of violence and is often seen as the event that ignited the Apache Wars.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bascom Affair
Target entity description: The Bascom Affair was an 1861 confrontation between the U.S. Army and the Chiricahua Apache that sparked a cycle of violence and is often seen as the event that ignited the Apache Wars.
  • A. Toledo War
    The Toledo War was a 19th-century boundary dispute between the U.S. states of Ohio and Michigan over control of the Toledo Strip, resolved largely through political negotiation rather than armed conflict.
  • B. Beecher–Tilton scandal
    The Beecher–Tilton scandal was a highly publicized 1870s adultery and seduction controversy involving famed preacher Henry Ward Beecher and Elizabeth Tilton that captivated and divided Victorian-era American society.
  • C. Calas affair
    The Calas affair was an 18th-century French legal case involving the wrongful execution of Protestant merchant Jean Calas, which became a symbol of religious intolerance and judicial injustice and inspired Voltaire’s campaign for civil rights and legal reform.
  • D. XYZ Affair
    The XYZ Affair was a late 1790s diplomatic scandal between the United States and France, in which French agents demanded bribes from American envoys, inflaming anti-French sentiment and helping spark the Quasi-War.
  • E. Teapot Dome scandal
    The Teapot Dome scandal was a major 1920s U.S. political corruption case involving the secret leasing of federal oil reserves that severely damaged public trust in the Harding administration.
  • 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_69a88a1626548190ae59a5028c3baa8e completed March 4, 2026, 7:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbb79f21881909ad8d1a09c1f29fd completed March 7, 2026, 5:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae51a5d95881909b4b77c14f565e21 completed March 9, 2026, 4:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae523cdebc819088b94e67b5311527 completed March 9, 2026, 4:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae52c56c5c8190bbdd2af3dde63374 completed March 9, 2026, 4:55 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:44 p.m.