Triple

T4623998
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Halifax Explosion E101051 entity
Predicate mainParticipant P2434 FINISHED
Object SS Mont-Blanc
SS Mont-Blanc was a French cargo ship laden with explosives whose detonation in 1917 caused the catastrophic Halifax Explosion, one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in history.
E456306 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: SS Mont-Blanc | Statement: [Halifax Explosion, mainParticipant, SS Mont-Blanc]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: SS Mont-Blanc
Context triple: [Halifax Explosion, mainParticipant, SS Mont-Blanc]
  • A. RMS Lusitania
    RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner famously sunk by a German U-boat in 1915 during World War I, an event that significantly influenced public opinion against Germany.
  • B. Lusitania
    Lusitania was an ancient Roman province on the western Iberian Peninsula, roughly corresponding to much of modern Portugal and part of western Spain.
  • C. HMS Ashanti
    HMS Ashanti was a Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer that served with distinction during the Second World War in various escort and combat operations.
  • D. RMS Baltic (1903)
    RMS Baltic (1903) was a large early 20th-century British ocean liner that served as a transatlantic passenger ship for the White Star Line.
  • E. German light cruiser Breslau
    The German light cruiser Breslau was a World War I-era warship that served with the Imperial German Navy and later the Ottoman Navy (as Midilli), participating in key naval operations in the Mediterranean and Black Sea.
  • 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: SS Mont-Blanc
Triple: [Halifax Explosion, mainParticipant, SS Mont-Blanc]
Generated description
SS Mont-Blanc was a French cargo ship laden with explosives whose detonation in 1917 caused the catastrophic Halifax Explosion, one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: SS Mont-Blanc
Target entity description: SS Mont-Blanc was a French cargo ship laden with explosives whose detonation in 1917 caused the catastrophic Halifax Explosion, one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in history.
  • A. RMS Lusitania
    RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner famously sunk by a German U-boat in 1915 during World War I, an event that significantly influenced public opinion against Germany.
  • B. Lusitania
    Lusitania was an ancient Roman province on the western Iberian Peninsula, roughly corresponding to much of modern Portugal and part of western Spain.
  • C. HMS Ashanti
    HMS Ashanti was a Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer that served with distinction during the Second World War in various escort and combat operations.
  • D. RMS Baltic (1903)
    RMS Baltic (1903) was a large early 20th-century British ocean liner that served as a transatlantic passenger ship for the White Star Line.
  • E. German light cruiser Breslau
    The German light cruiser Breslau was a World War I-era warship that served with the Imperial German Navy and later the Ottoman Navy (as Midilli), participating in key naval operations in the Mediterranean and Black Sea.
  • 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_69bd43d0497c8190ac23c65c5804846a completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd5a06d6248190a613be9784dd1ef4 completed March 20, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdfaa564988190b565c26b9cd3d3be completed March 21, 2026, 1:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdfb6fa3fc8190b79b641025710eb1 completed March 21, 2026, 1:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdfbeddd7c8190955bd3363fec4ca1 completed March 21, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:13 p.m.