Triple

T196199
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Vietnam War E3824 entity
Predicate significantEvent P259 FINISHED
Object 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.
E25688 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: My Lai massacre | Statement: [Vietnam War, significantEvent, My Lai massacre]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: My Lai massacre
Context triple: [Vietnam War, significantEvent, My Lai massacre]
  • A. Kanto Massacre of Koreans
    The Kanto Massacre of Koreans was a 1923 wave of mob and military violence in Japan in which thousands of Koreans were killed amid false rumors and xenophobic panic following the Great Kanto Earthquake.
  • B. Gulf of Tonkin incident
    The Gulf of Tonkin incident was a 1964 naval confrontation between North Vietnam and the United States that led to a major escalation of U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War.
  • C. Fall of Saigon
    The Fall of Saigon was the April 30, 1975 capture of South Vietnam’s capital by North Vietnamese forces, marking the end of the Vietnam War and the reunification of Vietnam under communist control.
  • D. Indian Creek massacre
    The Indian Creek massacre was an 1832 attack during the Black Hawk War in which a group of Potawatomi and Sauk warriors killed and captured settlers near present-day Earlville, Illinois.
  • E. Bloody Sunday
    Bloody Sunday was a 1972 incident in Derry, Northern Ireland, when British soldiers shot and killed unarmed civil rights protesters, becoming one of the most infamous and galvanizing events of the Troubles.
  • 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: My Lai massacre
Triple: [Vietnam War, significantEvent, My Lai massacre]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: My Lai massacre
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. Kanto Massacre of Koreans
    The Kanto Massacre of Koreans was a 1923 wave of mob and military violence in Japan in which thousands of Koreans were killed amid false rumors and xenophobic panic following the Great Kanto Earthquake.
  • B. Gulf of Tonkin incident
    The Gulf of Tonkin incident was a 1964 naval confrontation between North Vietnam and the United States that led to a major escalation of U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War.
  • C. Fall of Saigon
    The Fall of Saigon was the April 30, 1975 capture of South Vietnam’s capital by North Vietnamese forces, marking the end of the Vietnam War and the reunification of Vietnam under communist control.
  • D. Indian Creek massacre
    The Indian Creek massacre was an 1832 attack during the Black Hawk War in which a group of Potawatomi and Sauk warriors killed and captured settlers near present-day Earlville, Illinois.
  • E. Bloody Sunday
    Bloody Sunday was a 1972 incident in Derry, Northern Ireland, when British soldiers shot and killed unarmed civil rights protesters, becoming one of the most infamous and galvanizing events of the Troubles.
  • 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_69a2548debd48190ae3a06d6e65b53c6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:35 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25983b49c819080f7e161904c53da completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:57 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3232d589081909a56c0ef7349c59e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a323e5d5008190879aac12c19248f9 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a324c96f448190983ba89def7a57c8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:24 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:41 a.m.