Triple
T11640546
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Thornton Affair |
E276646
|
entity |
| Predicate | triggered |
P693
|
FINISHED |
| Object | U.S. declaration of war on Mexico |
E7117
|
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: U.S. declaration of war on Mexico | Statement: [Thornton Affair, triggered, U.S. declaration of war on Mexico]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: U.S. declaration of war on Mexico Context triple: [Thornton Affair, triggered, U.S. declaration of war on Mexico]
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A.
Mexican–American War
chosen
The Mexican–American War was a mid-19th-century conflict between the United States and Mexico that resulted in significant territorial gains for the U.S., including present-day California, Arizona, New Mexico, and other southwestern lands.
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B.
French intervention in Mexico
The French intervention in Mexico was a mid-19th-century military campaign in which France, backed at times by Britain and Spain, invaded Mexico to install Emperor Maximilian I and challenge Mexican sovereignty under President Benito Juárez.
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C.
Mexican Expedition
The Mexican Expedition was a 1916–1917 U.S. Army punitive campaign into Mexico, led by General John J. Pershing, to pursue revolutionary leader Pancho Villa after his raids on American soil.
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D.
Spanish–American War
The Spanish–American War was an 1898 conflict between the United States and Spain that marked the emergence of the U.S. as a global power and led to American control over former Spanish colonies in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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E.
United States occupation of Veracruz in 1914
The United States occupation of Veracruz in 1914 was a World War I–era intervention in Mexico in which U.S. forces seized the strategic Gulf Coast city to prevent a German arms shipment from reaching the government of Victoriano Huerta.
- 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_69d6aafa51148190ab84940694c00235 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d8a260ab488190ab1c00d9850f3096 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 7:10 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ee87deb3888190842bd61efd7b3989 |
completed | April 26, 2026, 9:47 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:39 p.m.