Triple

T10487604
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Brown & Company E247336 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object SS Empress of Ireland
SS Empress of Ireland was a Canadian Pacific ocean liner best known for its tragic 1914 sinking in the Saint Lawrence River, which resulted in the loss of over 1,000 lives.
E869008 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 Empress of Ireland | Statement: [John Brown & Company, notableWork, SS Empress of Ireland]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: SS Empress of Ireland
Context triple: [John Brown & Company, notableWork, SS Empress of Ireland]
  • 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. 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.
  • D. HMHS Britannic
    HMHS Britannic was a British White Star Line ocean liner, sister ship to the Titanic and Olympic, that served as a World War I hospital ship before sinking in the Aegean Sea in 1916.
  • E. RMS Lancastria
    RMS Lancastria was a British Cunard passenger liner requisitioned as a troopship in World War II, best known for its catastrophic sinking by German air attack off Saint-Nazaire in 1940, which resulted in one of the deadliest maritime disasters in British history.
  • 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 Empress of Ireland
Triple: [John Brown & Company, notableWork, SS Empress of Ireland]
Generated description
SS Empress of Ireland was a Canadian Pacific ocean liner best known for its tragic 1914 sinking in the Saint Lawrence River, which resulted in the loss of over 1,000 lives.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: SS Empress of Ireland
Target entity description: SS Empress of Ireland was a Canadian Pacific ocean liner best known for its tragic 1914 sinking in the Saint Lawrence River, which resulted in the loss of over 1,000 lives.
  • 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. 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.
  • D. HMHS Britannic
    HMHS Britannic was a British White Star Line ocean liner, sister ship to the Titanic and Olympic, that served as a World War I hospital ship before sinking in the Aegean Sea in 1916.
  • E. RMS Lancastria
    RMS Lancastria was a British Cunard passenger liner requisitioned as a troopship in World War II, best known for its catastrophic sinking by German air attack off Saint-Nazaire in 1940, which resulted in one of the deadliest maritime disasters in British history.
  • 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_69d381c309b88190af78aa681cf6a4c2 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d5096a4d3481908e9c319f6cdce4f1 completed April 7, 2026, 1:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d90dc44d7881908391487275b845bf completed April 10, 2026, 2:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d9107c75108190994939ab46aa642f completed April 10, 2026, 3 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d9154c922c81909991f87f89c083cd completed April 10, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:23 p.m.