Triple

T578745
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Black Death E15012 entity
Predicate relatedTo P37 FINISHED
Object Third Plague Pandemic
The Third Plague Pandemic was a global outbreak of bubonic plague that began in China in the mid-19th century, spread worldwide via trade routes, and led to the modern scientific understanding of plague and its transmission.
E73317 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: Third Plague Pandemic | Statement: [Black Death, relatedTo, Third Plague Pandemic]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Third Plague Pandemic
Context triple: [Black Death, relatedTo, Third Plague Pandemic]
  • A. Justinianic Plague
    The Justinianic Plague was a devastating 6th-century pandemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the Byzantine Empire and Mediterranean world, often considered a precursor to the later Black Death.
  • B. Black Death
    The Black Death was a devastating 14th-century pandemic of bubonic plague that killed tens of millions of people in Europe, Asia, and North Africa and profoundly reshaped medieval society.
  • C. Great Plague of London
    The Great Plague of London was a devastating outbreak of bubonic plague in 1665–1666 that killed a large portion of the city’s population and marked the last major epidemic of its kind in England.
  • D. 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak
    The 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak was the largest and deadliest Ebola epidemic in history, primarily affecting Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone and prompting a major international public health emergency response.
  • E. Yersinia pestis
    Yersinia pestis is a highly virulent bacterium responsible for plague, including the historic pandemics of bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic forms.
  • 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: Third Plague Pandemic
Triple: [Black Death, relatedTo, Third Plague Pandemic]
Generated description
The Third Plague Pandemic was a global outbreak of bubonic plague that began in China in the mid-19th century, spread worldwide via trade routes, and led to the modern scientific understanding of plague and its transmission.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Third Plague Pandemic
Target entity description: The Third Plague Pandemic was a global outbreak of bubonic plague that began in China in the mid-19th century, spread worldwide via trade routes, and led to the modern scientific understanding of plague and its transmission.
  • A. Justinianic Plague
    The Justinianic Plague was a devastating 6th-century pandemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the Byzantine Empire and Mediterranean world, often considered a precursor to the later Black Death.
  • B. Black Death
    The Black Death was a devastating 14th-century pandemic of bubonic plague that killed tens of millions of people in Europe, Asia, and North Africa and profoundly reshaped medieval society.
  • C. Great Plague of London
    The Great Plague of London was a devastating outbreak of bubonic plague in 1665–1666 that killed a large portion of the city’s population and marked the last major epidemic of its kind in England.
  • D. 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak
    The 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak was the largest and deadliest Ebola epidemic in history, primarily affecting Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone and prompting a major international public health emergency response.
  • E. Yersinia pestis
    Yersinia pestis is a highly virulent bacterium responsible for plague, including the historic pandemics of bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic forms.
  • 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_69a4935783b8819082b77726ec10cc42 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49b6c358081908f458b9e3e208c0d completed March 1, 2026, 8:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a50e23bce481908404040b848ba9c1 completed March 2, 2026, 4:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a50ed652148190a84c0d2aa5307211 completed March 2, 2026, 4:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a50f53c16c8190bbeb7fa550ed46b1 completed March 2, 2026, 4:17 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.