Triple

T3716368
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Somali Civil War E81539 entity
Predicate relatedTo P37 FINISHED
Object Somali famine of 1992
The Somali famine of 1992 was a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Somalia, marked by mass starvation and high mortality, exacerbated by drought, conflict, and the breakdown of state institutions.
E382759 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: Somali famine of 1992 | Statement: [Somali Civil War, relatedTo, Somali famine of 1992]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Somali famine of 1992
Context triple: [Somali Civil War, relatedTo, Somali famine of 1992]
  • A. 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia
    The 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia was a catastrophic humanitarian crisis marked by widespread starvation and hundreds of thousands of deaths, drawing global attention and prompting major international relief efforts.
  • B. Famine
    Famine is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, symbolizing extreme scarcity of food and widespread starvation.
  • C. Aden Emergency
    The Aden Emergency was a violent insurgency and period of civil unrest in the 1960s in the British-controlled port of Aden, marking a key episode in the end of British colonial rule in South Arabia.
  • D. Bangladesh famine of 1974
    The Bangladesh famine of 1974 was a devastating food crisis in newly independent Bangladesh, marked by widespread starvation and mortality, that became a key case study in understanding how political and economic factors—rather than sheer food shortage—can cause famine.
  • E. Somali Civil War
    The Somali Civil War is a prolonged, multifaceted conflict that began in 1991 following the collapse of Somalia’s central government, involving clan militias, warlords, Islamist groups, and foreign interventions, and resulting in widespread instability and humanitarian crises.
  • 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: Somali famine of 1992
Triple: [Somali Civil War, relatedTo, Somali famine of 1992]
Generated description
The Somali famine of 1992 was a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Somalia, marked by mass starvation and high mortality, exacerbated by drought, conflict, and the breakdown of state institutions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Somali famine of 1992
Target entity description: The Somali famine of 1992 was a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Somalia, marked by mass starvation and high mortality, exacerbated by drought, conflict, and the breakdown of state institutions.
  • A. 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia
    The 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia was a catastrophic humanitarian crisis marked by widespread starvation and hundreds of thousands of deaths, drawing global attention and prompting major international relief efforts.
  • B. Famine
    Famine is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, symbolizing extreme scarcity of food and widespread starvation.
  • C. Aden Emergency
    The Aden Emergency was a violent insurgency and period of civil unrest in the 1960s in the British-controlled port of Aden, marking a key episode in the end of British colonial rule in South Arabia.
  • D. Bangladesh famine of 1974
    The Bangladesh famine of 1974 was a devastating food crisis in newly independent Bangladesh, marked by widespread starvation and mortality, that became a key case study in understanding how political and economic factors—rather than sheer food shortage—can cause famine.
  • E. Somali Civil War
    The Somali Civil War is a prolonged, multifaceted conflict that began in 1991 following the collapse of Somalia’s central government, involving clan militias, warlords, Islamist groups, and foreign interventions, and resulting in widespread instability and humanitarian crises.
  • 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_69ad8b1a81588190b3f27a5483bb610e completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc9cf77dc819098979094172d82d1 completed March 8, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4ce0f690c819091d9caf9271f9bbd completed March 14, 2026, 2:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4cf6a84fc8190b07fbc31621bd871 completed March 14, 2026, 3 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4d32caa7c81908332ac23bd4d9571 completed March 14, 2026, 3:17 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:33 p.m.