Triple

T17751618
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject History of Massachusetts E443126 entity
Predicate includesEvent P1393 FINISHED
Object Great Molasses Flood
The Great Molasses Flood was a 1919 industrial disaster in Boston, Massachusetts, in which a large storage tank burst and sent a deadly wave of molasses through city streets.
E1284778 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: Great Molasses Flood | Statement: [History of Massachusetts, includesEvent, Great Molasses Flood]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Molasses Flood
Context triple: [History of Massachusetts, includesEvent, Great Molasses Flood]
  • A. Vanport flood of 1948
    The Vanport flood of 1948 was a catastrophic Columbia River flood that destroyed the wartime housing city of Vanport, Oregon, killing at least 15 people and displacing tens of thousands, many of them Black shipyard workers and their families.
  • B. Great Johnstown Flood of 1889
    The Great Johnstown Flood of 1889 was a catastrophic dam failure–induced deluge that devastated Johnstown, Pennsylvania, killing more than 2,200 people and becoming one of the deadliest and most infamous disasters in U.S. history.
  • C. Hartford Flood of 1936
    The Hartford Flood of 1936 was a devastating spring flood that inundated Hartford, Connecticut and surrounding areas, causing widespread damage and prompting major flood-control improvements along the city’s rivers.
  • D. 1967 Fairbanks flood
    The 1967 Fairbanks flood was a devastating inundation of Fairbanks, Alaska, that caused widespread damage and led to major changes in the region’s flood control and urban planning.
  • E. Great Flood of 1879
    The Great Flood of 1879 was a catastrophic inundation of the city of Szeged in Hungary that destroyed most of the town and prompted a major reconstruction.
  • 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: Great Molasses Flood
Triple: [History of Massachusetts, includesEvent, Great Molasses Flood]
Generated description
The Great Molasses Flood was a 1919 industrial disaster in Boston, Massachusetts, in which a large storage tank burst and sent a deadly wave of molasses through city streets.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Molasses Flood
Target entity description: The Great Molasses Flood was a 1919 industrial disaster in Boston, Massachusetts, in which a large storage tank burst and sent a deadly wave of molasses through city streets.
  • A. Vanport flood of 1948
    The Vanport flood of 1948 was a catastrophic Columbia River flood that destroyed the wartime housing city of Vanport, Oregon, killing at least 15 people and displacing tens of thousands, many of them Black shipyard workers and their families.
  • B. Great Johnstown Flood of 1889
    The Great Johnstown Flood of 1889 was a catastrophic dam failure–induced deluge that devastated Johnstown, Pennsylvania, killing more than 2,200 people and becoming one of the deadliest and most infamous disasters in U.S. history.
  • C. Hartford Flood of 1936
    The Hartford Flood of 1936 was a devastating spring flood that inundated Hartford, Connecticut and surrounding areas, causing widespread damage and prompting major flood-control improvements along the city’s rivers.
  • D. 1967 Fairbanks flood
    The 1967 Fairbanks flood was a devastating inundation of Fairbanks, Alaska, that caused widespread damage and led to major changes in the region’s flood control and urban planning.
  • E. Great Flood of 1879
    The Great Flood of 1879 was a catastrophic inundation of the city of Szeged in Hungary that destroyed most of the town and prompted a major reconstruction.
  • 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_69d8b9ed3a2081909b2ec0d4dd2f4c37 completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4841b3ccc8190b3241b3e0fa4b2e8 completed April 19, 2026, 7:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0243067e6c8190b94113eb4785faae completed May 11, 2026, 8:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0244ca6b348190a1c68dc3bf873f1d completed May 11, 2026, 9:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a024530b5dc8190a4776863cc01babf completed May 11, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:10 a.m.