Triple

T3756683
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Balangiga massacre E82063 entity
Predicate followedBy P78 FINISHED
Object “howling wilderness” campaign ordered by General Jacob H. Smith
The “howling wilderness” campaign ordered by General Jacob H. Smith was a brutal U.S. military retaliation in Samar during the Philippine–American War, marked by scorched-earth tactics and widespread civilian suffering.
E386005 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: “howling wilderness” campaign ordered by General Jacob H. Smith | Statement: [Balangiga massacre, followedBy, “howling wilderness” campaign ordered by General Jacob H. Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “howling wilderness” campaign ordered by General Jacob H. Smith
Context triple: [Balangiga massacre, followedBy, “howling wilderness” campaign ordered by General Jacob H. Smith]
  • A. Operation Prairie
    Operation Prairie was a major 1966 U.S. Marine Corps search-and-destroy campaign during the Vietnam War aimed at engaging North Vietnamese forces near the Demilitarized Zone.
  • B. Operation Commando Hunt
    Operation Commando Hunt was a major U.S. Air Force bombing campaign during the Vietnam War aimed at disrupting North Vietnamese supply routes along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, much of which ran through Laos.
  • C. New Mexico Campaign
    The New Mexico Campaign was a U.S. military operation during the Mexican–American War aimed at seizing control of the New Mexico Territory from Mexican authority.
  • D. Operation Hastings
    Operation Hastings was a major 1966 U.S. Marine Corps offensive during the Vietnam War aimed at blocking North Vietnamese Army forces infiltrating into South Vietnam’s Quang Tri Province.
  • E. Geronimo Campaign
    The Geronimo Campaign was a late 19th-century U.S. military operation aimed at capturing the Apache leader Geronimo, marking one of the final major conflicts of 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: “howling wilderness” campaign ordered by General Jacob H. Smith
Triple: [Balangiga massacre, followedBy, “howling wilderness” campaign ordered by General Jacob H. Smith]
Generated description
The “howling wilderness” campaign ordered by General Jacob H. Smith was a brutal U.S. military retaliation in Samar during the Philippine–American War, marked by scorched-earth tactics and widespread civilian suffering.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “howling wilderness” campaign ordered by General Jacob H. Smith
Target entity description: The “howling wilderness” campaign ordered by General Jacob H. Smith was a brutal U.S. military retaliation in Samar during the Philippine–American War, marked by scorched-earth tactics and widespread civilian suffering.
  • A. Operation Prairie
    Operation Prairie was a major 1966 U.S. Marine Corps search-and-destroy campaign during the Vietnam War aimed at engaging North Vietnamese forces near the Demilitarized Zone.
  • B. Operation Commando Hunt
    Operation Commando Hunt was a major U.S. Air Force bombing campaign during the Vietnam War aimed at disrupting North Vietnamese supply routes along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, much of which ran through Laos.
  • C. New Mexico Campaign
    The New Mexico Campaign was a U.S. military operation during the Mexican–American War aimed at seizing control of the New Mexico Territory from Mexican authority.
  • D. Operation Hastings
    Operation Hastings was a major 1966 U.S. Marine Corps offensive during the Vietnam War aimed at blocking North Vietnamese Army forces infiltrating into South Vietnam’s Quang Tri Province.
  • E. Geronimo Campaign
    The Geronimo Campaign was a late 19th-century U.S. military operation aimed at capturing the Apache leader Geronimo, marking one of the final major conflicts of 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_69ad8b1db40081908b61ffa6b78afd4d completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adcbbe7a6081909b0f835a77941300 completed March 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4e50bfdb0819097bdfdd38f553ada completed March 14, 2026, 4:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4e6c7164881909f14bf5b57916ae3 completed March 14, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4e74df9b481909d5286c64ae6d91a completed March 14, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:35 p.m.