Triple
T8294929
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | 20th Air Force |
E194190
|
entity |
| Predicate | operation |
P1688
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Firebombing of Japanese cities |
E12310
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Firebombing of Japanese cities | Statement: [20th Air Force, operation, Firebombing of Japanese cities]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Firebombing of Japanese cities Context triple: [20th Air Force, operation, Firebombing of Japanese cities]
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A.
Allied strategic bombing of Japan
chosen
Allied strategic bombing of Japan was the World War II air campaign in which U.S. and Allied forces conducted extensive conventional and atomic bombing raids against Japanese cities and industrial targets to cripple Japan’s war-making capacity and force its surrender.
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B.
Tokyo air raids
The Tokyo air raids were a series of devastating World War II bombing attacks by Allied forces that caused massive destruction and civilian casualties in Japan’s capital.
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C.
atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the first and only wartime uses of nuclear weapons, carried out by the United States against Japan in August 1945 and leading to immense destruction and Japan’s subsequent surrender in World War II.
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D.
World War II bombing
World War II bombing refers to the extensive aerial attacks carried out by the Allied and Axis powers against military, industrial, and civilian targets across Europe and Asia between 1939 and 1945.
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E.
atomic bombing of Hiroshima
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima was the first use of a nuclear weapon in war, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, causing massive destruction and loss of life.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca82e50ebc81909aa7b260c76bd757 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cb7df5fff88190ac51a8d1c3eb2fe2 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 7:55 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cd952e038c819090023cbcdab1e3ae |
completed | April 1, 2026, 9:59 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:52 p.m.