Triple

T16209
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject White House E323 entity
Predicate damagedIn P992 FINISHED
Object Burning of Washington
The Burning of Washington was a British attack during the War of 1812 in which invading forces captured and set fire to multiple U.S. government buildings in the capital, including the presidential mansion.
E627 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Burning of Washington | Statement: [White House, damagedIn, Burning of Washington]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Burning of Washington
Context triple: [White House, damagedIn, Burning of Washington]
  • A. Battles of Lexington and Concord
    The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the opening military engagements of the American Revolutionary War, marking the start of armed conflict between Great Britain and its thirteen American colonies in April 1775.
  • B. Great Chicago Fire of 1871
    The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was a catastrophic urban conflagration that destroyed much of Chicago, killed hundreds, left thousands homeless, and spurred major changes in building codes and city planning.
  • C. Boston Tea Party
    The Boston Tea Party was a 1773 colonial protest in which American colonists, opposing British taxation, boarded ships in Boston Harbor and dumped chests of tea into the water, helping spark the American Revolution.
  • D. attack on Pearl Harbor
    The attack on Pearl Harbor was the surprise Japanese military strike on the U.S. naval base in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, that led to the United States’ entry into World War II.
  • E. Berlin Airlift
    The Berlin Airlift was a massive 1948–1949 Allied operation that supplied West Berlin by air during the Soviet blockade, symbolizing early Cold War tensions and Western resolve.
  • 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: Burning of Washington
Triple: [White House, damagedIn, Burning of Washington]
Generated description
The Burning of Washington was a British attack during the War of 1812 in which invading forces captured and set fire to multiple U.S. government buildings in the capital, including the presidential mansion.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Burning of Washington
Target entity description: The Burning of Washington was a British attack during the War of 1812 in which invading forces captured and set fire to multiple U.S. government buildings in the capital, including the presidential mansion.
  • A. Battles of Lexington and Concord
    The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the opening military engagements of the American Revolutionary War, marking the start of armed conflict between Great Britain and its thirteen American colonies in April 1775.
  • B. Great Chicago Fire of 1871
    The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was a catastrophic urban conflagration that destroyed much of Chicago, killed hundreds, left thousands homeless, and spurred major changes in building codes and city planning.
  • C. Boston Tea Party
    The Boston Tea Party was a 1773 colonial protest in which American colonists, opposing British taxation, boarded ships in Boston Harbor and dumped chests of tea into the water, helping spark the American Revolution.
  • D. attack on Pearl Harbor
    The attack on Pearl Harbor was the surprise Japanese military strike on the U.S. naval base in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, that led to the United States’ entry into World War II.
  • E. Berlin Airlift
    The Berlin Airlift was a massive 1948–1949 Allied operation that supplied West Berlin by air during the Soviet blockade, symbolizing early Cold War tensions and Western resolve.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: damagedIn
Context triple: [White House, damagedIn, Burning of Washington]
  • A. dissolved
    Indicates that one substance has been mixed into another so thoroughly that it forms a uniform solution and is no longer distinguishable as a separate phase.
  • B. donated
    Indicates that one entity voluntarily gave something of value (such as money, goods, or time) to another entity, typically without expecting anything in return.
  • C. crossedBy
    Indicates that one entity (typically a path, line, or boundary) is intersected or traversed by another entity.
  • D. placeOfDeath
    Indicates the location where an entity (typically a person or animal) died.
  • E. lostTo
    Indicates that one entity was defeated by another in a competition, conflict, or comparison.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (7 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_69a23d7ad88c8190bffe8ab091d86642 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:57 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a241ea1ea081908e8a81ca97531ba5 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a243ca1c908190a50e20627e1b9a1e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a24667687481908fdf2588b57ceadc completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a247312efc81908e6a6b75c520795d completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:38 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a23fec1fe8819080da6f2c745dc8fd completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:07 a.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69a241e933288190b02ef5369f7b8834 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:02 a.m.