Triple

T2281259
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rebellions of 1837–1838 E51283 entity
Predicate significantEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Caroline affair
The Caroline affair was a diplomatic crisis between the United States and the British Empire in 1837–1838, sparked by the British destruction of the American steamboat Caroline while it was aiding Canadian rebels.
E249661 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: Caroline affair | Statement: [Rebellions of 1837–1838, significantEvent, Caroline affair]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Caroline affair
Context triple: [Rebellions of 1837–1838, significantEvent, Caroline affair]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Corfu incident
    The Corfu incident was a 1923 diplomatic and military crisis between Italy and Greece over the Italian occupation of the Greek island of Corfu, which became an early test of the League of Nations’ ability to manage international conflicts.
  • C. Sian Incident
    The Sian Incident was a 1936 political crisis in China in which Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was detained by his own generals, leading to a negotiated United Front between the Nationalists and Communists against Japanese aggression.
  • D. Dreyfus affair
    The Dreyfus affair was a late 19th-century French political scandal involving the wrongful conviction of Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which exposed deep-rooted antisemitism and sharply polarized French society.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Caroline affair
Triple: [Rebellions of 1837–1838, significantEvent, Caroline affair]
Generated description
The Caroline affair was a diplomatic crisis between the United States and the British Empire in 1837–1838, sparked by the British destruction of the American steamboat Caroline while it was aiding Canadian rebels.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Caroline affair
Target entity description: The Caroline affair was a diplomatic crisis between the United States and the British Empire in 1837–1838, sparked by the British destruction of the American steamboat Caroline while it was aiding Canadian rebels.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Corfu incident
    The Corfu incident was a 1923 diplomatic and military crisis between Italy and Greece over the Italian occupation of the Greek island of Corfu, which became an early test of the League of Nations’ ability to manage international conflicts.
  • C. Sian Incident
    The Sian Incident was a 1936 political crisis in China in which Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was detained by his own generals, leading to a negotiated United Front between the Nationalists and Communists against Japanese aggression.
  • D. Dreyfus affair
    The Dreyfus affair was a late 19th-century French political scandal involving the wrongful conviction of Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which exposed deep-rooted antisemitism and sharply polarized French society.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69a88b08e4308190bdac9aebcca1c91a completed March 4, 2026, 7:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc21c405881908c4df7bee36136fe completed March 7, 2026, 6:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae71e7b44c8190ab647646352b71b7 completed March 9, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae72bf22088190a2c111a71eb0dda7 completed March 9, 2026, 7:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae731ab8bc819090fac5b311cb5fe0 completed March 9, 2026, 7:13 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:48 p.m.