Triple

T3197397
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mercury Theatre E66965 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object The War of the Worlds broadcast panic
The War of the Worlds broadcast panic refers to the widespread public alarm reportedly caused by Orson Welles’s 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’s novel, which many listeners briefly believed was a real-time news report of a Martian invasion.
E17827 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: The War of the Worlds broadcast panic | Statement: [Mercury Theatre, knownFor, The War of the Worlds broadcast panic]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The War of the Worlds broadcast panic
Context triple: [Mercury Theatre, knownFor, The War of the Worlds broadcast panic]
  • A. The War of the Worlds
    The War of the Worlds is a classic science fiction novel depicting a devastating Martian invasion of Earth and humanity’s struggle to survive.
  • B. Missile Scare
    Missile Scare is an alternative name for the Cuban Missile Crisis, the tense 1962 Cold War confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over nuclear missiles in Cuba.
  • C. The Biggest Story of Our Time!
    The Biggest Story of Our Time! is the promotional tagline for the post-apocalyptic film "On the Beach," emphasizing the global significance of its nuclear war narrative.
  • D. It Can Happen
    "It Can Happen" is a progressive rock song by the English band Yes, featured on their 1983 album 90125.
  • E. The Shape of Things to Come
    The Shape of Things to Come is a 1933 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that presents a speculative future history of the world, exploring global war, social collapse, and the eventual rise of a rational, technocratic world state.
  • 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: The War of the Worlds broadcast panic
Triple: [Mercury Theatre, knownFor, The War of the Worlds broadcast panic]
Generated description
The War of the Worlds broadcast panic refers to the widespread public alarm reportedly caused by Orson Welles’s 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’s novel, which many listeners briefly believed was a real-time news report of a Martian invasion.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The War of the Worlds broadcast panic
Target entity description: The War of the Worlds broadcast panic refers to the widespread public alarm reportedly caused by Orson Welles’s 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’s novel, which many listeners briefly believed was a real-time news report of a Martian invasion.
  • A. The War of the Worlds chosen
    The War of the Worlds is a classic science fiction novel depicting a devastating Martian invasion of Earth and humanity’s struggle to survive.
  • B. Missile Scare
    Missile Scare is an alternative name for the Cuban Missile Crisis, the tense 1962 Cold War confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over nuclear missiles in Cuba.
  • C. The Biggest Story of Our Time!
    The Biggest Story of Our Time! is the promotional tagline for the post-apocalyptic film "On the Beach," emphasizing the global significance of its nuclear war narrative.
  • D. It Can Happen
    "It Can Happen" is a progressive rock song by the English band Yes, featured on their 1983 album 90125.
  • E. The Shape of Things to Come
    The Shape of Things to Come is a 1933 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that presents a speculative future history of the world, exploring global war, social collapse, and the eventual rise of a rational, technocratic world state.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ad8588ba18819086a10951c32ecb80 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada7192994819084817307065a25e2 completed March 8, 2026, 4:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b24bb7cd488190ae95c140d9cda296 completed March 12, 2026, 5:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b24d39e77c8190818f71a3298852d7 completed March 12, 2026, 5:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b25178f3c08190be78bdbd0cdfc5f3 completed March 12, 2026, 5:39 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:07 p.m.