Triple

T4174262
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject North Brother Island E86437 entity
Predicate historicalEvent P259 FINISHED
Object General Slocum steamship disaster
The General Slocum steamship disaster was a 1904 New York City ferry fire and sinking that killed over a thousand people, becoming one of the deadliest maritime tragedies in U.S. history.
E418432 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: General Slocum steamship disaster | Statement: [North Brother Island, historicalEvent, General Slocum steamship disaster]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: General Slocum steamship disaster
Context triple: [North Brother Island, historicalEvent, General Slocum steamship disaster]
  • A. Maheno shipwreck
    The Maheno shipwreck is the rusting remains of a former luxury ocean liner and World War I hospital ship that now serves as a prominent historic landmark and tourist attraction on the shores of Fraser Island in Queensland, Australia.
  • B. Walter L. Frost shipwreck
    The Walter L. Frost shipwreck is the remains of an early 20th-century Great Lakes freighter that sank near South Manitou Island and is now a popular historic diving and maritime heritage site.
  • C. Three Brothers shipwreck
    The Three Brothers shipwreck is the remains of a wooden freighter that ran aground in 1911 near South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan and is now a notable historic diving and sightseeing site.
  • D. Sea Venture shipwreck
    The Sea Venture shipwreck was a 1609 English flagship wrecked on the reefs of Bermuda, whose survivors’ settlement led to the island’s permanent colonization and inspired elements of Shakespeare’s "The Tempest."
  • E. Franklin expedition
    The Franklin expedition was a 19th-century British Arctic voyage led by Sir John Franklin that tragically disappeared while attempting to chart and navigate the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage.
  • 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: General Slocum steamship disaster
Triple: [North Brother Island, historicalEvent, General Slocum steamship disaster]
Generated description
The General Slocum steamship disaster was a 1904 New York City ferry fire and sinking that killed over a thousand people, becoming one of the deadliest maritime tragedies in U.S. history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: General Slocum steamship disaster
Target entity description: The General Slocum steamship disaster was a 1904 New York City ferry fire and sinking that killed over a thousand people, becoming one of the deadliest maritime tragedies in U.S. history.
  • A. Maheno shipwreck
    The Maheno shipwreck is the rusting remains of a former luxury ocean liner and World War I hospital ship that now serves as a prominent historic landmark and tourist attraction on the shores of Fraser Island in Queensland, Australia.
  • B. Walter L. Frost shipwreck
    The Walter L. Frost shipwreck is the remains of an early 20th-century Great Lakes freighter that sank near South Manitou Island and is now a popular historic diving and maritime heritage site.
  • C. Three Brothers shipwreck
    The Three Brothers shipwreck is the remains of a wooden freighter that ran aground in 1911 near South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan and is now a notable historic diving and sightseeing site.
  • D. Sea Venture shipwreck
    The Sea Venture shipwreck was a 1609 English flagship wrecked on the reefs of Bermuda, whose survivors’ settlement led to the island’s permanent colonization and inspired elements of Shakespeare’s "The Tempest."
  • E. Franklin expedition
    The Franklin expedition was a 19th-century British Arctic voyage led by Sir John Franklin that tragically disappeared while attempting to chart and navigate the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage.
  • 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_69aed93de98c8190ad838ce507b77c8a completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af02e7d30081909774a3e2a2132d6a completed March 9, 2026, 5:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b57f5428a0819082aaea8950a7c039 completed March 14, 2026, 3:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5800ab42c8190a1bc6f84db38f170 completed March 14, 2026, 3:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5843d6ac88190804242661d077546 completed March 14, 2026, 3:52 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:45 p.m.