Triple

T18793453
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Henry Patterson E459573 entity
Predicate notableEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Tsavo man-eaters incident
The Tsavo man-eaters incident was a notorious 1898 episode in Kenya in which two man-eating lions terrorized railway workers and were ultimately hunted and killed by British engineer and soldier John Henry Patterson.
E1343175 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: Tsavo man-eaters incident | Statement: [John Henry Patterson, notableEvent, Tsavo man-eaters incident]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tsavo man-eaters incident
Context triple: [John Henry Patterson, notableEvent, Tsavo man-eaters incident]
  • A. Shangani Patrol incident
    The Shangani Patrol incident was a famous 1893 battle in which a small British South Africa Company patrol was annihilated while pursuing King Lobengula during the First Matabele War in present-day Zimbabwe.
  • B. Weenen massacre
    The Weenen massacre was an 1838 killing of Voortrekker settlers by Zulu forces in present-day South Africa, which became a pivotal flashpoint in the conflict between the Voortrekkers and the Zulu Kingdom.
  • C. Gombe Chimpanzee War
    The Gombe Chimpanzee War was a prolonged, violent conflict between neighboring chimpanzee communities in Tanzania observed by Jane Goodall, providing groundbreaking insight into primate aggression and social behavior.
  • D. Xhosa cattle-killing movement
    The Xhosa cattle-killing movement was a mid-19th-century millenarian prophecy-led movement among the Xhosa that called for the mass slaughter of cattle and destruction of crops in the belief it would bring about the resurrection of ancestors and the expulsion of colonial settlers, ultimately resulting in a devastating famine.
  • E. Year of the Elephant incident
    The Year of the Elephant incident refers to the famous pre-Islamic event in which an invading army with war elephants, led by Abraha to destroy the Kaaba in Mecca, was miraculously defeated, traditionally dated to the year of the Prophet Muhammad’s birth.
  • 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: Tsavo man-eaters incident
Triple: [John Henry Patterson, notableEvent, Tsavo man-eaters incident]
Generated description
The Tsavo man-eaters incident was a notorious 1898 episode in Kenya in which two man-eating lions terrorized railway workers and were ultimately hunted and killed by British engineer and soldier John Henry Patterson.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tsavo man-eaters incident
Target entity description: The Tsavo man-eaters incident was a notorious 1898 episode in Kenya in which two man-eating lions terrorized railway workers and were ultimately hunted and killed by British engineer and soldier John Henry Patterson.
  • A. Shangani Patrol incident
    The Shangani Patrol incident was a famous 1893 battle in which a small British South Africa Company patrol was annihilated while pursuing King Lobengula during the First Matabele War in present-day Zimbabwe.
  • B. Weenen massacre
    The Weenen massacre was an 1838 killing of Voortrekker settlers by Zulu forces in present-day South Africa, which became a pivotal flashpoint in the conflict between the Voortrekkers and the Zulu Kingdom.
  • C. Gombe Chimpanzee War
    The Gombe Chimpanzee War was a prolonged, violent conflict between neighboring chimpanzee communities in Tanzania observed by Jane Goodall, providing groundbreaking insight into primate aggression and social behavior.
  • D. Xhosa cattle-killing movement
    The Xhosa cattle-killing movement was a mid-19th-century millenarian prophecy-led movement among the Xhosa that called for the mass slaughter of cattle and destruction of crops in the belief it would bring about the resurrection of ancestors and the expulsion of colonial settlers, ultimately resulting in a devastating famine.
  • E. Year of the Elephant incident
    The Year of the Elephant incident refers to the famous pre-Islamic event in which an invading army with war elephants, led by Abraha to destroy the Kaaba in Mecca, was miraculously defeated, traditionally dated to the year of the Prophet Muhammad’s birth.
  • 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_69d8d396f54c8190ba49db31e8743842 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5a01cc0c0819098ef4326e82ff524 completed April 20, 2026, 3:40 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a05472071b88190a74e18be8699f0c6 completed May 14, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a054a44f0a8819089ebe23231d04ab8 completed May 14, 2026, 4:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a054ac3e8a88190981789df1790774e completed May 14, 2026, 4:08 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:53 a.m.