Triple

T6639886
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject al-Shabaab E150558 entity
Predicate responsibleForAttack P53315 FINISHED
Object 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack
The 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack was a four-day terrorist siege at an upscale mall in Nairobi, Kenya, that left at least 67 people dead and drew international attention to the threat posed by the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab.
E608306 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: 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack | Statement: [al-Shabaab, responsibleForAttack, 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack
Context triple: [al-Shabaab, responsibleForAttack, 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack]
  • A. 2015 Bardo National Museum attack
    The 2015 Bardo National Museum attack was a terrorist assault in Tunis, Tunisia, in which gunmen opened fire on tourists at the country’s leading museum, killing over 20 people and injuring many others.
  • B. Mubi bombings
    The Mubi bombings were a series of deadly attacks in the Nigerian town of Mubi, widely attributed to the Islamist militant group Boko Haram and emblematic of the violence during its insurgency.
  • C. Nyanya bombings
    The Nyanya bombings were deadly terrorist attacks near Abuja, Nigeria, in 2014, widely attributed to the Islamist militant group Boko Haram and emblematic of its violent insurgency.
  • D. 2014 Sinjar massacre
    The 2014 Sinjar massacre was a genocidal attack by ISIS against the Yazidi population in and around Sinjar, Iraq, involving mass killings, abductions, and enslavement that drew global condemnation.
  • E. Juma'at al-Karama massacre
    The Juma'at al-Karama massacre was a deadly 2011 attack on anti-government protesters in Sana'a, Yemen, that became a pivotal and galvanizing event in the Yemeni uprising during the Arab Spring.
  • 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: 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack
Triple: [al-Shabaab, responsibleForAttack, 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack]
Generated description
The 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack was a four-day terrorist siege at an upscale mall in Nairobi, Kenya, that left at least 67 people dead and drew international attention to the threat posed by the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack
Target entity description: The 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack was a four-day terrorist siege at an upscale mall in Nairobi, Kenya, that left at least 67 people dead and drew international attention to the threat posed by the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab.
  • A. 2015 Bardo National Museum attack
    The 2015 Bardo National Museum attack was a terrorist assault in Tunis, Tunisia, in which gunmen opened fire on tourists at the country’s leading museum, killing over 20 people and injuring many others.
  • B. Mubi bombings
    The Mubi bombings were a series of deadly attacks in the Nigerian town of Mubi, widely attributed to the Islamist militant group Boko Haram and emblematic of the violence during its insurgency.
  • C. Nyanya bombings
    The Nyanya bombings were deadly terrorist attacks near Abuja, Nigeria, in 2014, widely attributed to the Islamist militant group Boko Haram and emblematic of its violent insurgency.
  • D. 2014 Sinjar massacre
    The 2014 Sinjar massacre was a genocidal attack by ISIS against the Yazidi population in and around Sinjar, Iraq, involving mass killings, abductions, and enslavement that drew global condemnation.
  • E. Juma'at al-Karama massacre
    The Juma'at al-Karama massacre was a deadly 2011 attack on anti-government protesters in Sana'a, Yemen, that became a pivotal and galvanizing event in the Yemeni uprising during the Arab Spring.
  • 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_69c687f0ceb08190bf40807bfc605fa5 completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d0a3a2408190bb7be4613f896bdc completed March 27, 2026, 6:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6e455edb88190983f74f39e55665c completed March 27, 2026, 8:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6e8584bd08190bb45747aca6e9327 completed March 27, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6e8dcc9bc819099ba39f67677195b completed March 27, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2 p.m.