Triple

T492519
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Saddam Hussein E10219 entity
Predicate capturedNear P8203 FINISHED
Object Tikrit
Tikrit is a city in northern Iraq best known as the hometown of former president Saddam Hussein and a focal point in recent Iraqi history.
E63624 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Tikrit | Statement: [Saddam Hussein, capturedNear, Tikrit]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tikrit
Context triple: [Saddam Hussein, capturedNear, Tikrit]
  • A. Baghdad
    Baghdad is the capital and largest city of Iraq, historically renowned as a major center of the Islamic Golden Age and a key cultural and economic hub of the Arab world.
  • B. Fallujah
    Fallujah is a city in central Iraq that became internationally known as a major battleground during the Iraq War, particularly for intense urban combat between U.S.-led coalition forces and insurgents.
  • C. Basra
    Basra is a historic port city in southern Iraq, strategically located near the Persian Gulf and long significant as a commercial and cultural hub of the region.
  • D. Badr City
    Badr City is a planned satellite city in Egypt that forms part of the Greater Cairo metropolitan area, known for its industrial zones and residential developments.
  • E. Samarra
    Samarra is an ancient Iraqi city on the Tigris River renowned for its monumental Islamic architecture, especially the spiral minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra.
  • 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: Tikrit
Triple: [Saddam Hussein, capturedNear, Tikrit]
Generated description
Tikrit is a city in northern Iraq best known as the hometown of former president Saddam Hussein and a focal point in recent Iraqi history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tikrit
Target entity description: Tikrit is a city in northern Iraq best known as the hometown of former president Saddam Hussein and a focal point in recent Iraqi history.
  • A. Baghdad
    Baghdad is the capital and largest city of Iraq, historically renowned as a major center of the Islamic Golden Age and a key cultural and economic hub of the Arab world.
  • B. Fallujah
    Fallujah is a city in central Iraq that became internationally known as a major battleground during the Iraq War, particularly for intense urban combat between U.S.-led coalition forces and insurgents.
  • C. Basra
    Basra is a historic port city in southern Iraq, strategically located near the Persian Gulf and long significant as a commercial and cultural hub of the region.
  • D. Badr City
    Badr City is a planned satellite city in Egypt that forms part of the Greater Cairo metropolitan area, known for its industrial zones and residential developments.
  • E. Samarra
    Samarra is an ancient Iraqi city on the Tigris River renowned for its monumental Islamic architecture, especially the spiral minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: capturedNear
Context triple: [Saddam Hussein, capturedNear, Tikrit]
  • A. capturedBy
    Indicates that one entity has been seized, taken into control, or otherwise apprehended by another entity.
  • B. capturedPlace
    Indicates that an agent took control of or seized a specific place, typically through force or strategic action.
  • C. capturedDuring
    Indicates that one event or state occurred within the temporal span of another, typically representing that something was recorded, seized, or documented while a specific situation or activity was taking place.
  • D. capturedAt
    Indicates the specific time or moment at which an entity was captured, recorded, or taken.
  • E. occursNear chosen
    Indicates that one event or entity takes place or exists in close spatial proximity to another.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69a2e847df8481909239ec08ccf1e376 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f0faab4881909f65f172198b5bd2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a49eb7b49c819098352f36d020cde7 completed March 1, 2026, 8:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a49f2f2b4c8190b35eb623a28187e6 completed March 1, 2026, 8:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a49fcd6d448190a40af17c0a113aed completed March 1, 2026, 8:21 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a2edf7ce008190836fb6ab5ea39375 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:30 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.