Triple
T1663172
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Nikolai Yezhov |
E35952
|
entity |
| Predicate | wasVictimOf |
P870
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Great Purge |
E1755
|
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: Great Purge | Statement: [Nikolai Yezhov, wasVictimOf, Great Purge]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Purge Context triple: [Nikolai Yezhov, wasVictimOf, Great Purge]
-
A.
Great Purge
chosen
The Great Purge was a brutal campaign of political repression, mass arrests, and executions in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s that targeted perceived enemies of the state, including Communist Party members, military leaders, and ordinary citizens.
-
B.
Stalinist repressions
Stalinist repressions were a series of brutal state-sponsored persecutions, mass arrests, executions, and engineered famines under Joseph Stalin’s rule in the Soviet Union, targeting perceived political enemies and entire social groups.
-
C.
Holodomor
The Holodomor was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that caused the deaths of millions of Ukrainians and is widely regarded as a genocide.
-
D.
Night of the Long Knives
The Night of the Long Knives was a 1934 purge in Nazi Germany during which Adolf Hitler ordered the assassination of political rivals and perceived threats within his own movement to consolidate his power.
-
E.
Yezhovshchina
Yezhovshchina refers to the most intense phase of Stalin’s Great Purge in the late 1930s, marked by mass arrests, executions, and widespread political repression under NKVD chief Nikolai Yezhov.
- 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_69a88606aa808190aa0b421b4271f220 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a90ab5d1a08190a3325ff203b573fb |
completed | March 5, 2026, 4:46 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ad71adb0388190b358e83fa8dfaef5 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 12:55 p.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.