Triple

T221098
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Great Holland Fire of 1871 E4214 entity
Predicate temporalOverlap P1867 FINISHED
Object Great Midwest Fires of 1871
The Great Midwest Fires of 1871 were a series of devastating wildfires across several Midwestern U.S. states, including the infamous Peshtigo Fire, that caused massive destruction and loss of life in early October 1871.
E29320 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 Midwest Fires of 1871 | Statement: [Great Holland Fire of 1871, temporalOverlap, Great Midwest Fires of 1871]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Midwest Fires of 1871
Context triple: [Great Holland Fire of 1871, temporalOverlap, Great Midwest Fires of 1871]
  • A. Great Chicago Fire of 1871
    The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was a catastrophic urban conflagration that destroyed much of Chicago, killed hundreds, left thousands homeless, and spurred major changes in building codes and city planning.
  • B. Peshtigo Fire
    The Peshtigo Fire was a catastrophic 1871 forest fire in Wisconsin that remains the deadliest wildfire in United States history.
  • C. Great Holland Fire of 1871
    The Great Holland Fire of 1871 was a devastating conflagration that destroyed much of Holland, Michigan, during the same period as the Great Chicago Fire and other major Midwest fires.
  • D. Dust Bowl
    The Dust Bowl was a devastating 1930s environmental disaster on the North American Great Plains, where severe drought and poor farming practices caused massive dust storms, crop failures, and widespread displacement of farming communities.
  • E. Burning of Washington
    The Burning of Washington was a British attack during the War of 1812 in which invading forces captured and set fire to multiple U.S. government buildings in the capital, including the presidential mansion.
  • 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 Midwest Fires of 1871
Triple: [Great Holland Fire of 1871, temporalOverlap, Great Midwest Fires of 1871]
Generated description
The Great Midwest Fires of 1871 were a series of devastating wildfires across several Midwestern U.S. states, including the infamous Peshtigo Fire, that caused massive destruction and loss of life in early October 1871.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Midwest Fires of 1871
Target entity description: The Great Midwest Fires of 1871 were a series of devastating wildfires across several Midwestern U.S. states, including the infamous Peshtigo Fire, that caused massive destruction and loss of life in early October 1871.
  • A. Great Chicago Fire of 1871
    The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was a catastrophic urban conflagration that destroyed much of Chicago, killed hundreds, left thousands homeless, and spurred major changes in building codes and city planning.
  • B. Peshtigo Fire
    The Peshtigo Fire was a catastrophic 1871 forest fire in Wisconsin that remains the deadliest wildfire in United States history.
  • C. Great Holland Fire of 1871
    The Great Holland Fire of 1871 was a devastating conflagration that destroyed much of Holland, Michigan, during the same period as the Great Chicago Fire and other major Midwest fires.
  • D. Dust Bowl
    The Dust Bowl was a devastating 1930s environmental disaster on the North American Great Plains, where severe drought and poor farming practices caused massive dust storms, crop failures, and widespread displacement of farming communities.
  • E. Burning of Washington
    The Burning of Washington was a British attack during the War of 1812 in which invading forces captured and set fire to multiple U.S. government buildings in the capital, including the presidential mansion.
  • 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_69a260c3037c8190ba7ddf328f249b74 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a35b636810819085f6c4e658ee578a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a35cd77cf881908bbde3b6bcbd5fa8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a35daaf914819096033b4e95fd3317 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:27 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:53 a.m.