Triple

T2705438
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Great Fire of Portland 1866 E59329 entity
Predicate relatedEvent P37 FINISHED
Object Great Boston Fire of 1872
The Great Boston Fire of 1872 was a devastating urban conflagration that destroyed a large portion of Boston’s downtown business district and prompted major changes in the city’s building codes and fire safety practices.
E290359 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: Great Boston Fire of 1872 | Statement: [Great Fire of Portland 1866, relatedEvent, Great Boston Fire of 1872]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Boston Fire of 1872
Context triple: [Great Fire of Portland 1866, relatedEvent, Great Boston Fire of 1872]
  • A. Great Fire of Portland 1866
    The Great Fire of Portland 1866 was a devastating conflagration that swept through much of Portland, Maine on July 4, 1866, destroying large portions of the city’s downtown and waterfront and becoming one of the most destructive urban fires in 19th-century America.
  • B. Great Chicago Fire of 1871
    The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was a catastrophic urban conflagration that destroyed much of Chicago, killed hundreds, left thousands homeless, and spurred major changes in building codes and city planning.
  • C. Great Fire of New York (1776)
    The Great Fire of New York (1776) was a massive blaze that destroyed a large portion of New York City shortly after the British captured it during the American Revolutionary War.
  • D. Fire of 1823
    The Fire of 1823 was a devastating blaze that largely destroyed Rome’s ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, prompting its extensive 19th-century reconstruction.
  • E. Great Holland Fire of 1871
    The Great Holland Fire of 1871 was a devastating conflagration that destroyed much of Holland, Michigan, during the same period as the Great Chicago Fire and other major Midwest fires.
  • 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: Great Boston Fire of 1872
Triple: [Great Fire of Portland 1866, relatedEvent, Great Boston Fire of 1872]
Generated description
The Great Boston Fire of 1872 was a devastating urban conflagration that destroyed a large portion of Boston’s downtown business district and prompted major changes in the city’s building codes and fire safety practices.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Boston Fire of 1872
Target entity description: The Great Boston Fire of 1872 was a devastating urban conflagration that destroyed a large portion of Boston’s downtown business district and prompted major changes in the city’s building codes and fire safety practices.
  • A. Great Fire of Portland 1866
    The Great Fire of Portland 1866 was a devastating conflagration that swept through much of Portland, Maine on July 4, 1866, destroying large portions of the city’s downtown and waterfront and becoming one of the most destructive urban fires in 19th-century America.
  • B. Great Chicago Fire of 1871
    The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was a catastrophic urban conflagration that destroyed much of Chicago, killed hundreds, left thousands homeless, and spurred major changes in building codes and city planning.
  • C. Great Fire of New York (1776)
    The Great Fire of New York (1776) was a massive blaze that destroyed a large portion of New York City shortly after the British captured it during the American Revolutionary War.
  • D. Fire of 1823
    The Fire of 1823 was a devastating blaze that largely destroyed Rome’s ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, prompting its extensive 19th-century reconstruction.
  • E. Great Holland Fire of 1871
    The Great Holland Fire of 1871 was a devastating conflagration that destroyed much of Holland, Michigan, during the same period as the Great Chicago Fire and other major Midwest fires.
  • 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_69ab4ac66bc88190b9e4afa5fc843f72 completed March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abda559a908190ad5d92c11a398a03 completed March 7, 2026, 7:57 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afaf79c8648190a9041dd2903a1429 completed March 10, 2026, 5:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afb002b86881909401e1bec24b76bf completed March 10, 2026, 5:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afb0e906f88190b182cbfe81122eed completed March 10, 2026, 5:49 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:55 p.m.