Triple

T1196973
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject My Lai massacre E25688 entity
Predicate legalOutcome P2931 FINISHED
Object court-martial of William Calley
The court-martial of William Calley was a highly publicized U.S. military trial in 1971 in which Army Lieutenant William Calley was convicted for his role in the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.
E136558 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: court-martial of William Calley | Statement: [My Lai massacre, legalOutcome, court-martial of William Calley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: court-martial of William Calley
Context triple: [My Lai massacre, legalOutcome, court-martial of William Calley]
  • A. My Lai massacre
    The My Lai massacre was a notorious 1968 atrocity during the Vietnam War in which U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, becoming a symbol of the conflict’s brutality and sparking widespread outrage.
  • B. Rivonia Trial
    The Rivonia Trial was a landmark 1963–1964 South African court case in which Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid leaders were prosecuted and ultimately sentenced to long prison terms for sabotage and related charges, drawing global attention to the struggle against apartheid.
  • C. court-martial of General Charles Lee
    The court-martial of General Charles Lee was a Revolutionary War military trial in 1778 that resulted in his suspension from command for misconduct and disobedience following the Battle of Monmouth.
  • D. Trial of the Twenty-One
    The Trial of the Twenty-One was a 1938 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks and party leaders were accused of treason and executed, marking one of the most infamous episodes of Stalin’s Great Purge.
  • E. Nuremberg trials
    The Nuremberg trials were a series of landmark military tribunals held after World War II to prosecute leading Nazi officials for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against peace.
  • 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: court-martial of William Calley
Triple: [My Lai massacre, legalOutcome, court-martial of William Calley]
Generated description
The court-martial of William Calley was a highly publicized U.S. military trial in 1971 in which Army Lieutenant William Calley was convicted for his role in the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: court-martial of William Calley
Target entity description: The court-martial of William Calley was a highly publicized U.S. military trial in 1971 in which Army Lieutenant William Calley was convicted for his role in the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.
  • A. My Lai massacre
    The My Lai massacre was a notorious 1968 atrocity during the Vietnam War in which U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, becoming a symbol of the conflict’s brutality and sparking widespread outrage.
  • B. Rivonia Trial
    The Rivonia Trial was a landmark 1963–1964 South African court case in which Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid leaders were prosecuted and ultimately sentenced to long prison terms for sabotage and related charges, drawing global attention to the struggle against apartheid.
  • C. court-martial of General Charles Lee
    The court-martial of General Charles Lee was a Revolutionary War military trial in 1778 that resulted in his suspension from command for misconduct and disobedience following the Battle of Monmouth.
  • D. Trial of the Twenty-One
    The Trial of the Twenty-One was a 1938 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks and party leaders were accused of treason and executed, marking one of the most infamous episodes of Stalin’s Great Purge.
  • E. Nuremberg trials
    The Nuremberg trials were a series of landmark military tribunals held after World War II to prosecute leading Nazi officials for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against peace.
  • 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.