Triple

T1153466
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Cape Esperance E23728 entity
Predicate shipInvolved P862 FINISHED
Object USS Laffey
USS Laffey was a U.S. Navy destroyer famed for its fierce World War II service, including surviving intense kamikaze attacks and earning the nickname "The Ship That Would Not Die."
E158249 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: USS Laffey | Statement: [Battle of Cape Esperance, shipInvolved, USS Laffey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: USS Laffey
Context triple: [Battle of Cape Esperance, shipInvolved, USS Laffey]
  • A. USS Maddox (DD-731)
    USS Maddox (DD-731) was a U.S. Navy destroyer best known for its controversial role in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, which helped escalate American involvement in the Vietnam War.
  • B. USS Ranger
    USS Ranger was a prominent sloop-of-war in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, best known for its daring Atlantic operations under Captain John Paul Jones.
  • C. USS Washington (BB-56)
    USS Washington (BB-56) was a World War II-era U.S. Navy fast battleship renowned for its decisive nighttime surface combat performance in the Pacific Theater.
  • D. USS Wasp
    USS Wasp was a prominent warship of the American Revolutionary-era Continental Navy, known for its role in early naval engagements against British forces.
  • E. USS Turner Joy (DD-951)
    USS Turner Joy (DD-951) was a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer of the United States Navy best known for its controversial role in the events that escalated U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
  • 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: USS Laffey
Triple: [Battle of Cape Esperance, shipInvolved, USS Laffey]
Generated description
USS Laffey was a U.S. Navy destroyer famed for its fierce World War II service, including surviving intense kamikaze attacks and earning the nickname "The Ship That Would Not Die."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: USS Laffey
Target entity description: USS Laffey was a U.S. Navy destroyer famed for its fierce World War II service, including surviving intense kamikaze attacks and earning the nickname "The Ship That Would Not Die."
  • A. USS Maddox (DD-731)
    USS Maddox (DD-731) was a U.S. Navy destroyer best known for its controversial role in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, which helped escalate American involvement in the Vietnam War.
  • B. USS Ranger
    USS Ranger was a prominent sloop-of-war in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, best known for its daring Atlantic operations under Captain John Paul Jones.
  • C. USS Washington (BB-56)
    USS Washington (BB-56) was a World War II-era U.S. Navy fast battleship renowned for its decisive nighttime surface combat performance in the Pacific Theater.
  • D. USS Wasp
    USS Wasp was a prominent warship of the American Revolutionary-era Continental Navy, known for its role in early naval engagements against British forces.
  • E. USS Turner Joy (DD-951)
    USS Turner Joy (DD-951) was a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer of the United States Navy best known for its controversial role in the events that escalated U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
  • 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_69a493f0d32c8190ac74bad3c87f2641 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bc8e9cb481908a528a828b21d497 completed March 1, 2026, 10:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acd46d2f748190997c662f7c29e990 completed March 8, 2026, 1:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acd6a03b70819096bdf7ec3b447756 completed March 8, 2026, 1:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acd71971448190940136b8a44040be completed March 8, 2026, 1:55 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.