Triple

T1196960
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject My Lai massacre E25688 entity
Predicate commandingOfficer P884 FINISHED
Object William Calley
William Calley is a former U.S. Army officer best known for his central role in and subsequent conviction for war crimes related to the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.
E136555 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: William Calley | Statement: [My Lai massacre, commandingOfficer, William Calley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Calley
Context triple: [My Lai massacre, commandingOfficer, William Calley]
  • A. Lieutenant General Hal Moore
    Lieutenant General Hal Moore was a highly respected U.S. Army officer best known for his leadership during the Battle of Ia Drang in the Vietnam War and for co-authoring the book "We Were Soldiers Once... and Young."
  • B. Stephen H. Crandall
    Stephen H. Crandall was a prominent American mechanical engineer and MIT professor renowned for his foundational contributions to the fields of dynamics, vibrations, and random processes in engineering.
  • C. John O’Neill
    John O’Neill was a real-life FBI counterterrorism expert known for his early warnings about al-Qaeda and is prominently portrayed as a central figure in the book and TV adaptation "The Looming Tower."
  • D. William Westmoreland
    William Westmoreland was a United States Army general best known for commanding U.S. military operations during the height of the Vietnam War.
  • E. Marc Bulger
    Marc Bulger is a former NFL quarterback best known for his Pro Bowl tenure with the St. Louis Rams in the 2000s.
  • 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: William Calley
Triple: [My Lai massacre, commandingOfficer, William Calley]
Generated description
William Calley is a former U.S. Army officer best known for his central role in and subsequent conviction for war crimes related to the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Calley
Target entity description: William Calley is a former U.S. Army officer best known for his central role in and subsequent conviction for war crimes related to the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.
  • A. Lieutenant General Hal Moore
    Lieutenant General Hal Moore was a highly respected U.S. Army officer best known for his leadership during the Battle of Ia Drang in the Vietnam War and for co-authoring the book "We Were Soldiers Once... and Young."
  • B. Stephen H. Crandall
    Stephen H. Crandall was a prominent American mechanical engineer and MIT professor renowned for his foundational contributions to the fields of dynamics, vibrations, and random processes in engineering.
  • C. John O’Neill
    John O’Neill was a real-life FBI counterterrorism expert known for his early warnings about al-Qaeda and is prominently portrayed as a central figure in the book and TV adaptation "The Looming Tower."
  • D. William Westmoreland
    William Westmoreland was a United States Army general best known for commanding U.S. military operations during the height of the Vietnam War.
  • E. Marc Bulger
    Marc Bulger is a former NFL quarterback best known for his Pro Bowl tenure with the St. Louis Rams in the 2000s.
  • 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_69a49429f5ec8190a6a205eb0ae81e5e completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bd9a305c819091513394f1b67784 completed March 1, 2026, 10:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac7658cae8819081da26480926ff83 completed March 7, 2026, 7:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac770141a88190b71552d46fb4d2ad completed March 7, 2026, 7:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac777a7768819098b9d4dd771a6750 completed March 7, 2026, 7:07 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:46 p.m.