Triple

T3205826
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sri Lankan Civil War E67158 entity
Predicate rebelLeader P11563 FINISHED
Object Velupillai Prabhakaran
Velupillai Prabhakaran was the founder and longtime leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the militant organization that fought for an independent Tamil state in Sri Lanka.
E335761 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Velupillai Prabhakaran | Statement: [Sri Lankan Civil War, rebelLeader, Velupillai Prabhakaran]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Velupillai Prabhakaran
Context triple: [Sri Lankan Civil War, rebelLeader, Velupillai Prabhakaran]
  • A. Simon Thassi
    Simon Thassi was a Jewish high priest, military leader, and statesman of the 2nd century BCE who secured Judean independence from the Seleucid Empire and established the Hasmonean dynasty.
  • B. Sir John Kotelawala
    Sir John Kotelawala was a Sri Lankan statesman and military officer who served as the country’s third Prime Minister in the 1950s.
  • C. Anura Bandaranaike
    Anura Bandaranaike was a prominent Sri Lankan politician and member of the influential Bandaranaike family, who held several key ministerial and parliamentary positions during his career.
  • D. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
    The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was a Sri Lankan Tamil militant separatist organization that fought for an independent Tamil state in Sri Lanka from the late 1970s until its defeat in 2009.
  • E. Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike
    Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, better known as Sirimavo Bandaranaike, was a Sri Lankan stateswoman who became the world’s first female prime minister and served three terms as the country’s head of government.
  • 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: Velupillai Prabhakaran
Triple: [Sri Lankan Civil War, rebelLeader, Velupillai Prabhakaran]
Generated description
Velupillai Prabhakaran was the founder and longtime leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the militant organization that fought for an independent Tamil state in Sri Lanka.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Velupillai Prabhakaran
Target entity description: Velupillai Prabhakaran was the founder and longtime leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the militant organization that fought for an independent Tamil state in Sri Lanka.
  • A. Simon Thassi
    Simon Thassi was a Jewish high priest, military leader, and statesman of the 2nd century BCE who secured Judean independence from the Seleucid Empire and established the Hasmonean dynasty.
  • B. Sir John Kotelawala
    Sir John Kotelawala was a Sri Lankan statesman and military officer who served as the country’s third Prime Minister in the 1950s.
  • C. Anura Bandaranaike
    Anura Bandaranaike was a prominent Sri Lankan politician and member of the influential Bandaranaike family, who held several key ministerial and parliamentary positions during his career.
  • D. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
    The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was a Sri Lankan Tamil militant separatist organization that fought for an independent Tamil state in Sri Lanka from the late 1970s until its defeat in 2009.
  • E. Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike
    Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, better known as Sirimavo Bandaranaike, was a Sri Lankan stateswoman who became the world’s first female prime minister and served three terms as the country’s head of government.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: rebelLeader
Context triple: [Sri Lankan Civil War, rebelLeader, Velupillai Prabhakaran]
  • A. belligerentLeader chosen
    Indicates that an entity serves as a leader or authority figure of a party engaged in a conflict, war, or hostile confrontation.
  • B. rebelInstitution
    Indicates that an institution actively resists, opposes, or defies an established authority, system, or governing power.
  • C. militaryLeader
    Indicates that one entity serves as the commanding military leader of another entity, such as a state, organization, or armed force.
  • D. rebelStateName
    Indicates that a particular name is the official or recognized name of a rebel or insurgent political entity or state.
  • E. theoreticalLeader
    Indicates a relationship where one entity is regarded as the leader in theory or principle, but does not necessarily hold or exercise actual leadership in practice.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69ad8589bd988190afa7ed2bdffb7b33 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adaa56c21c8190b6aa7c56cb15ad56 completed March 8, 2026, 4:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b24bcf7b2481908bc52cfa71bd313c completed March 12, 2026, 5:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b24cb0c5f0819083ea589ded12ef3b completed March 12, 2026, 5:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b24d2ce888819087cc7c3f5db0e859 completed March 12, 2026, 5:20 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69ad9e078f7c8190813d9fcb4f5071fb completed March 8, 2026, 4:04 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:07 p.m.