Triple

T219752
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Redemption (end of Reconstruction governments) E4186 entity
Predicate significantEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Colfax massacre
The Colfax massacre was an 1873 episode of racial and political violence in Louisiana in which white supremacists killed dozens of Black freedmen, marking one of the deadliest incidents of Reconstruction-era terror and undermining Black civil rights in the post–Civil War South.
E28099 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: Colfax massacre | Statement: [Redemption (end of Reconstruction governments), significantEvent, Colfax massacre]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colfax massacre
Context triple: [Redemption (end of Reconstruction governments), significantEvent, Colfax massacre]
  • A. Haymarket affair
    The Haymarket affair was an 1886 labor protest and bombing in Chicago that became a pivotal moment in the history of workers’ rights and the labor movement in the United States.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Haymarket
    Haymarket is a small historic town in Prince William County, Northern Virginia, known for its quaint downtown and proximity to Washington, D.C.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Colfax massacre
Triple: [Redemption (end of Reconstruction governments), significantEvent, Colfax massacre]
Generated description
The Colfax massacre was an 1873 episode of racial and political violence in Louisiana in which white supremacists killed dozens of Black freedmen, marking one of the deadliest incidents of Reconstruction-era terror and undermining Black civil rights in the post–Civil War South.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colfax massacre
Target entity description: The Colfax massacre was an 1873 episode of racial and political violence in Louisiana in which white supremacists killed dozens of Black freedmen, marking one of the deadliest incidents of Reconstruction-era terror and undermining Black civil rights in the post–Civil War South.
  • A. Haymarket affair
    The Haymarket affair was an 1886 labor protest and bombing in Chicago that became a pivotal moment in the history of workers’ rights and the labor movement in the United States.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Haymarket
    Haymarket is a small historic town in Prince William County, Northern Virginia, known for its quaint downtown and proximity to Washington, D.C.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69a2573508588190b522c2476d91acfe completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25c6d0fa08190810139b14f4851bc completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3476fe7a0819086ce5c028429b2c0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a34a3ad4688190acdcca286cd8a19a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 8:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a34a97c5dc8190b0f3e4f3c342cfae completed Feb. 28, 2026, 8:05 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:53 a.m.