Triple

T4081425
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Black and Tans E87484 entity
Predicate notableEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Sack of Balbriggan
The Sack of Balbriggan was a notorious reprisal attack by British forces during the Irish War of Independence in 1920, in which much of the town of Balbriggan was burned and several civilians were killed.
E410956 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: Sack of Balbriggan | Statement: [Black and Tans, notableEvent, Sack of Balbriggan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sack of Balbriggan
Context triple: [Black and Tans, notableEvent, Sack of Balbriggan]
  • A. Siege of Clonmel
    The Siege of Clonmel was a major 1650 engagement in which Irish Confederate and Royalist forces mounted a notably effective defense against Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army during the later stages of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
  • B. Siege of Drogheda
    The Siege of Drogheda was a brutal 1649 assault by Oliver Cromwell’s Parliamentarian forces on the Irish town of Drogheda, notorious for the mass killing of its Royalist and Confederate defenders and civilians.
  • C. Siege of Wexford
    The Siege of Wexford was a 1649 Cromwellian assault on the Irish port town of Wexford, marked by the storming of its defenses and a notorious massacre of many of its defenders and inhabitants.
  • D. Kildare Rebellion
    The Kildare Rebellion was a 16th-century uprising in Ireland led by the FitzGeralds of Kildare against English rule, which marked a major turning point in Tudor consolidation of power over the island.
  • E. Siege of Derry
    The Siege of Derry was a pivotal 1689 confrontation in which Protestant defenders held the walled city of Derry against Jacobite forces, becoming a defining episode in Irish and British Protestant memory.
  • 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: Sack of Balbriggan
Triple: [Black and Tans, notableEvent, Sack of Balbriggan]
Generated description
The Sack of Balbriggan was a notorious reprisal attack by British forces during the Irish War of Independence in 1920, in which much of the town of Balbriggan was burned and several civilians were killed.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sack of Balbriggan
Target entity description: The Sack of Balbriggan was a notorious reprisal attack by British forces during the Irish War of Independence in 1920, in which much of the town of Balbriggan was burned and several civilians were killed.
  • A. Siege of Clonmel
    The Siege of Clonmel was a major 1650 engagement in which Irish Confederate and Royalist forces mounted a notably effective defense against Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army during the later stages of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
  • B. Siege of Drogheda
    The Siege of Drogheda was a brutal 1649 assault by Oliver Cromwell’s Parliamentarian forces on the Irish town of Drogheda, notorious for the mass killing of its Royalist and Confederate defenders and civilians.
  • C. Siege of Wexford
    The Siege of Wexford was a 1649 Cromwellian assault on the Irish port town of Wexford, marked by the storming of its defenses and a notorious massacre of many of its defenders and inhabitants.
  • D. Kildare Rebellion
    The Kildare Rebellion was a 16th-century uprising in Ireland led by the FitzGeralds of Kildare against English rule, which marked a major turning point in Tudor consolidation of power over the island.
  • E. Siege of Derry
    The Siege of Derry was a pivotal 1689 confrontation in which Protestant defenders held the walled city of Derry against Jacobite forces, becoming a defining episode in Irish and British Protestant memory.
  • 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_69aed9435cf48190ad1da737c962d19d completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aefc5204d881909829de15015aa50d completed March 9, 2026, 4:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b562c3e1b081908cd783d9399a751f completed March 14, 2026, 1:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5647cbad48190935cb9bdde3f6af0 completed March 14, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b564e930e48190b8b95d3cae65dbd2 completed March 14, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:39 p.m.