Triple

T3956918
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Iowa River E85803 entity
Predicate hasMajorFloodEvent P17084 FINISHED
Object Iowa flood of 2008
The Iowa flood of 2008 was a devastating series of floods across Iowa that inundated numerous communities, caused widespread damage to infrastructure and agriculture, and led to large-scale evacuations and federal disaster declarations.
E401262 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: Iowa flood of 2008 | Statement: [Iowa River, hasMajorFloodEvent, Iowa flood of 2008]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Iowa flood of 2008
Context triple: [Iowa River, hasMajorFloodEvent, Iowa flood of 2008]
  • A. 1997 Red River flood
    The 1997 Red River flood was a catastrophic spring flood along the Red River of the North that devastated communities in North Dakota, Minnesota, and Manitoba, causing widespread evacuations and extensive property damage.
  • B. Great Sioux City Flood of 1892
    The Great Sioux City Flood of 1892 was a devastating late-19th-century flood that inundated Sioux City, Iowa, causing widespread destruction and loss of life along the Missouri River.
  • C. 2008 Kosi flood
    The 2008 Kosi flood was a catastrophic river flood in northern India and Nepal that displaced millions of people and caused widespread destruction when the Kosi River dramatically changed its course.
  • D. 2003 Dead River flood
    The 2003 Dead River flood was a major dam-failure-induced flooding event in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that caused significant damage in and around the city of Marquette.
  • E. Great Flood of 1879
    The Great Flood of 1879 was a catastrophic inundation of the city of Szeged in Hungary that destroyed most of the town and prompted a major reconstruction.
  • 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: Iowa flood of 2008
Triple: [Iowa River, hasMajorFloodEvent, Iowa flood of 2008]
Generated description
The Iowa flood of 2008 was a devastating series of floods across Iowa that inundated numerous communities, caused widespread damage to infrastructure and agriculture, and led to large-scale evacuations and federal disaster declarations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Iowa flood of 2008
Target entity description: The Iowa flood of 2008 was a devastating series of floods across Iowa that inundated numerous communities, caused widespread damage to infrastructure and agriculture, and led to large-scale evacuations and federal disaster declarations.
  • A. 1997 Red River flood
    The 1997 Red River flood was a catastrophic spring flood along the Red River of the North that devastated communities in North Dakota, Minnesota, and Manitoba, causing widespread evacuations and extensive property damage.
  • B. Great Sioux City Flood of 1892
    The Great Sioux City Flood of 1892 was a devastating late-19th-century flood that inundated Sioux City, Iowa, causing widespread destruction and loss of life along the Missouri River.
  • C. 2008 Kosi flood
    The 2008 Kosi flood was a catastrophic river flood in northern India and Nepal that displaced millions of people and caused widespread destruction when the Kosi River dramatically changed its course.
  • D. 2003 Dead River flood
    The 2003 Dead River flood was a major dam-failure-induced flooding event in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that caused significant damage in and around the city of Marquette.
  • E. Great Flood of 1879
    The Great Flood of 1879 was a catastrophic inundation of the city of Szeged in Hungary that destroyed most of the town and prompted a major reconstruction.
  • 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_69aed93a96908190bcbdbfa718f155bd completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aef95bbb9c8190bd64c5b7ea2f341a completed March 9, 2026, 4:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b533b1bd1c81909d901ee334cb7b31 completed March 14, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b53490827481909586fb8031a78b49 completed March 14, 2026, 10:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b53540217c819089b9ae3441805bac completed March 14, 2026, 10:15 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:31 p.m.