Triple

T235238
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject U-2 incident of 1960 E4495 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object Powers incident
The Powers incident refers to the 1960 Cold War episode in which American U-2 spy pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union, triggering a major international diplomatic crisis.
E30123 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: Powers incident | Statement: [U-2 incident of 1960, alsoKnownAs, Powers incident]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Powers incident
Context triple: [U-2 incident of 1960, alsoKnownAs, Powers incident]
  • A. Altmark Incident
    The Altmark Incident was a 1940 World War II naval confrontation in Norwegian waters, where British forces boarded the German tanker Altmark to free imprisoned Allied sailors, heightening tensions during the early "Phoney War" period.
  • B. Tapani Incident
    The Tapani Incident was a major 1915 anti-Japanese uprising in southern Taiwan, led by local religious and militia leaders, and is remembered as one of the most significant resistance movements during Japanese colonial rule.
  • C. Chappaquiddick incident
    The Chappaquiddick incident was a 1969 car accident on Chappaquiddick Island involving Senator Edward M. Kennedy that resulted in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne and had lasting political repercussions for Kennedy's career.
  • D. Operation Spring Awakening
    Operation Spring Awakening was Nazi Germany’s last major offensive of World War II, launched in March 1945 near Lake Balaton in Hungary in a failed attempt to secure vital oil fields and halt the Soviet advance.
  • E. Operation Tidal Wave
    Operation Tidal Wave was a major World War II Allied air raid targeting Romanian oil refineries at Ploiești in an effort to cripple Nazi Germany’s fuel supplies.
  • 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: Powers incident
Triple: [U-2 incident of 1960, alsoKnownAs, Powers incident]
Generated description
The Powers incident refers to the 1960 Cold War episode in which American U-2 spy pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union, triggering a major international diplomatic crisis.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Powers incident
Target entity description: The Powers incident refers to the 1960 Cold War episode in which American U-2 spy pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union, triggering a major international diplomatic crisis.
  • A. Altmark Incident
    The Altmark Incident was a 1940 World War II naval confrontation in Norwegian waters, where British forces boarded the German tanker Altmark to free imprisoned Allied sailors, heightening tensions during the early "Phoney War" period.
  • B. Tapani Incident
    The Tapani Incident was a major 1915 anti-Japanese uprising in southern Taiwan, led by local religious and militia leaders, and is remembered as one of the most significant resistance movements during Japanese colonial rule.
  • C. Chappaquiddick incident
    The Chappaquiddick incident was a 1969 car accident on Chappaquiddick Island involving Senator Edward M. Kennedy that resulted in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne and had lasting political repercussions for Kennedy's career.
  • D. Operation Spring Awakening
    Operation Spring Awakening was Nazi Germany’s last major offensive of World War II, launched in March 1945 near Lake Balaton in Hungary in a failed attempt to secure vital oil fields and halt the Soviet advance.
  • E. Operation Tidal Wave
    Operation Tidal Wave was a major World War II Allied air raid targeting Romanian oil refineries at Ploiești in an effort to cripple Nazi Germany’s fuel supplies.
  • 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_69a257363ffc81909757bde7ab3404da completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25cc9ab2c81909af278a07f86aa1e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a36478ebcc8190b95419be9bc6bba3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3651d2b108190a81d8c3076f6e617 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3657903608190988a4c933bbc262c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:53 a.m.