Triple

T6539402
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Massachusett E168245 entity
Predicate affectedBy P9 FINISHED
Object Great Dying epidemic of 1616–1619
The Great Dying epidemic of 1616–1619 was a devastating wave of Old World diseases that decimated Indigenous populations in coastal New England just before large-scale English colonization.
E604085 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: Great Dying epidemic of 1616–1619 | Statement: [Massachusett, affectedBy, Great Dying epidemic of 1616–1619]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Dying epidemic of 1616–1619
Context triple: [Massachusett, affectedBy, Great Dying epidemic of 1616–1619]
  • A. Starving Time (1609–1610)
    The Starving Time (1609–1610) was a catastrophic period of famine, disease, and conflict that nearly wiped out the English settlers at Jamestown during the early years of the Virginia Colony.
  • 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. Russian famine of 1601–1603
    The Russian famine of 1601–1603 was a catastrophic nationwide food crisis that killed hundreds of thousands and helped trigger the political chaos and dynastic struggles of Russia’s Time of Troubles.
  • D. Great Dying
    The Great Dying is the most severe mass extinction event in Earth's history, occurring about 252 million years ago and wiping out the majority of marine and terrestrial species.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Great Dying epidemic of 1616–1619
Triple: [Massachusett, affectedBy, Great Dying epidemic of 1616–1619]
Generated description
The Great Dying epidemic of 1616–1619 was a devastating wave of Old World diseases that decimated Indigenous populations in coastal New England just before large-scale English colonization.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Dying epidemic of 1616–1619
Target entity description: The Great Dying epidemic of 1616–1619 was a devastating wave of Old World diseases that decimated Indigenous populations in coastal New England just before large-scale English colonization.
  • A. Starving Time (1609–1610)
    The Starving Time (1609–1610) was a catastrophic period of famine, disease, and conflict that nearly wiped out the English settlers at Jamestown during the early years of the Virginia Colony.
  • 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. Russian famine of 1601–1603
    The Russian famine of 1601–1603 was a catastrophic nationwide food crisis that killed hundreds of thousands and helped trigger the political chaos and dynastic struggles of Russia’s Time of Troubles.
  • D. Great Dying
    The Great Dying is the most severe mass extinction event in Earth's history, occurring about 252 million years ago and wiping out the majority of marine and terrestrial species.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69c68a51564081909e93aee0dbd9cca3 completed March 27, 2026, 1:46 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6add5d3848190a0d70dc4013ab756 completed March 27, 2026, 4:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6d53b861c81908adc984a3067d4ef completed March 27, 2026, 7:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6d6745b40819083fbcb2a4063e34d completed March 27, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6d837a5248190b0afb39174ac3922 completed March 27, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:50 p.m.