Triple

T394447
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Salem Witch Museum E8950 entity
Predicate topicContext P5303 FINISHED
Object European witch hunts
European witch hunts were a series of widespread persecutions, trials, and executions of people accused of witchcraft across Europe from roughly the 15th to 18th centuries, driven by religious, social, and political tensions.
E49780 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: European witch hunts | Statement: [Salem Witch Museum, topicContext, European witch hunts]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: European witch hunts
Context triple: [Salem Witch Museum, topicContext, European witch hunts]
  • A. Salem witch trials
    The Salem witch trials were a series of infamous 1692–1693 prosecutions in colonial New England where mass hysteria and superstition led to the execution and imprisonment of people accused of witchcraft.
  • B. Inquisition
    The Inquisition was a powerful ecclesiastical tribunal system of the Catholic Church and allied monarchies, created to identify, try, and punish heresy and enforce religious orthodoxy.
  • C. Spanish Inquisition
    The Spanish Inquisition was a powerful Catholic institution established in late 15th-century Spain to enforce religious orthodoxy, often through persecution, trials, and expulsions of Jews, Muslims, and other perceived heretics.
  • D. Mihna (inquisition)
    The Mihna (inquisition) was a 9th-century religious and political persecution in the Abbasid Caliphate during which scholars were forced to conform to the caliphs’ official theological doctrine, particularly regarding the created nature of the Qur’an.
  • E. Peasants’ War
    The Peasants’ War was a major 1524–1525 uprising of German peasants and lower classes, inspired in part by Reformation ideas, that sought social and economic reforms and was brutally suppressed by the nobility.
  • 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: European witch hunts
Triple: [Salem Witch Museum, topicContext, European witch hunts]
Generated description
European witch hunts were a series of widespread persecutions, trials, and executions of people accused of witchcraft across Europe from roughly the 15th to 18th centuries, driven by religious, social, and political tensions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: European witch hunts
Target entity description: European witch hunts were a series of widespread persecutions, trials, and executions of people accused of witchcraft across Europe from roughly the 15th to 18th centuries, driven by religious, social, and political tensions.
  • A. Salem witch trials
    The Salem witch trials were a series of infamous 1692–1693 prosecutions in colonial New England where mass hysteria and superstition led to the execution and imprisonment of people accused of witchcraft.
  • B. Inquisition
    The Inquisition was a powerful ecclesiastical tribunal system of the Catholic Church and allied monarchies, created to identify, try, and punish heresy and enforce religious orthodoxy.
  • C. Spanish Inquisition
    The Spanish Inquisition was a powerful Catholic institution established in late 15th-century Spain to enforce religious orthodoxy, often through persecution, trials, and expulsions of Jews, Muslims, and other perceived heretics.
  • D. Mihna (inquisition)
    The Mihna (inquisition) was a 9th-century religious and political persecution in the Abbasid Caliphate during which scholars were forced to conform to the caliphs’ official theological doctrine, particularly regarding the created nature of the Qur’an.
  • E. Peasants’ War
    The Peasants’ War was a major 1524–1525 uprising of German peasants and lower classes, inspired in part by Reformation ideas, that sought social and economic reforms and was brutally suppressed by the nobility.
  • 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_69a2e7f55c60819097aff65ea2ca2832 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ee2c2d1881909aa1ccfaa4172b38 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a405fa43448190b3e78d83e791b105 completed March 1, 2026, 9:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4070f76308190bd898dcdb27f3277 completed March 1, 2026, 9:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a40794523081908839f90446beba83 completed March 1, 2026, 9:32 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.