Triple

T2143405
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ethiopian Civil War E47009 entity
Predicate significantEvent P259 FINISHED
Object 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia
The 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia was a catastrophic humanitarian crisis marked by widespread starvation and hundreds of thousands of deaths, drawing global attention and prompting major international relief efforts.
E236879 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: 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia | Statement: [Ethiopian Civil War, significantEvent, 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia
Context triple: [Ethiopian Civil War, significantEvent, 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Ethiopian Civil War
    The Ethiopian Civil War was a protracted conflict from 1974 to 1991 between the Marxist Derg regime and various rebel groups, which devastated the country and led to the overthrow of Ethiopia’s military government.
  • C. Tigray War
    The Tigray War was a devastating armed conflict in northern Ethiopia from 2020 to 2022 involving federal and regional forces, marked by widespread atrocities, famine, and a severe humanitarian crisis.
  • D. Bangladesh famine of 1974
    The Bangladesh famine of 1974 was a devastating food crisis in newly independent Bangladesh, marked by widespread starvation and mortality, that became a key case study in understanding how political and economic factors—rather than sheer food shortage—can cause famine.
  • E. Aden Emergency
    The Aden Emergency was a violent insurgency and period of civil unrest in the 1960s in the British-controlled port of Aden, marking a key episode in the end of British colonial rule in South Arabia.
  • 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: 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia
Triple: [Ethiopian Civil War, significantEvent, 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia]
Generated description
The 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia was a catastrophic humanitarian crisis marked by widespread starvation and hundreds of thousands of deaths, drawing global attention and prompting major international relief efforts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia
Target entity description: The 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia was a catastrophic humanitarian crisis marked by widespread starvation and hundreds of thousands of deaths, drawing global attention and prompting major international relief efforts.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Ethiopian Civil War
    The Ethiopian Civil War was a protracted conflict from 1974 to 1991 between the Marxist Derg regime and various rebel groups, which devastated the country and led to the overthrow of Ethiopia’s military government.
  • C. Tigray War
    The Tigray War was a devastating armed conflict in northern Ethiopia from 2020 to 2022 involving federal and regional forces, marked by widespread atrocities, famine, and a severe humanitarian crisis.
  • D. Bangladesh famine of 1974
    The Bangladesh famine of 1974 was a devastating food crisis in newly independent Bangladesh, marked by widespread starvation and mortality, that became a key case study in understanding how political and economic factors—rather than sheer food shortage—can cause famine.
  • E. Aden Emergency
    The Aden Emergency was a violent insurgency and period of civil unrest in the 1960s in the British-controlled port of Aden, marking a key episode in the end of British colonial rule in South Arabia.
  • 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_69a88a1933e0819094f18426ed74180f completed March 4, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbe206db0819095772af5358dca55 completed March 7, 2026, 5:56 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae51b8152c81908c66d389bf14dc7e completed March 9, 2026, 4:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae522f0394819087a7e7d9c6ca354c completed March 9, 2026, 4:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae5316acf881908dde9d83c36c8fd0 completed March 9, 2026, 4:56 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:44 p.m.