Triple

T71853
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Irish American E1437 entity
Predicate majorImmigrationCause P3057 FINISHED
Object Great Famine
The Great Famine was a catastrophic mid-19th-century potato blight in Ireland that caused mass starvation, disease, and a huge wave of emigration, particularly to North America.
E6151 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: Great Famine | Statement: [Irish American, majorImmigrationCause, Great Famine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Famine
Context triple: [Irish American, majorImmigrationCause, Great Famine]
  • A. Holodomor
    The Holodomor was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that caused the deaths of millions of Ukrainians and is widely regarded as a genocide.
  • B. Dust Bowl
    The Dust Bowl was a devastating 1930s environmental disaster on the North American Great Plains, where severe drought and poor farming practices caused massive dust storms, crop failures, and widespread displacement of farming communities.
  • C. Great Depression
    The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic downturn during the 1930s that led to massive unemployment, bank failures, and profound social and political change.
  • D. Rampjaar (Disaster Year) 1672
    Rampjaar (Disaster Year) 1672 was a catastrophic year in Dutch history marked by simultaneous invasions by France, England, and German states, leading to political upheaval and near-collapse of the Dutch Republic.
  • E. Great Purge
    The Great Purge was a brutal campaign of political repression, mass arrests, and executions in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s that targeted perceived enemies of the state, including Communist Party members, military leaders, and ordinary citizens.
  • 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 Famine
Triple: [Irish American, majorImmigrationCause, Great Famine]
Generated description
The Great Famine was a catastrophic mid-19th-century potato blight in Ireland that caused mass starvation, disease, and a huge wave of emigration, particularly to North America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Great Famine
Target entity description: The Great Famine was a catastrophic mid-19th-century potato blight in Ireland that caused mass starvation, disease, and a huge wave of emigration, particularly to North America.
  • A. Holodomor
    The Holodomor was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that caused the deaths of millions of Ukrainians and is widely regarded as a genocide.
  • B. Dust Bowl
    The Dust Bowl was a devastating 1930s environmental disaster on the North American Great Plains, where severe drought and poor farming practices caused massive dust storms, crop failures, and widespread displacement of farming communities.
  • C. Malthusian catastrophe
    A Malthusian catastrophe is a theoretical scenario in which unchecked population growth outstrips food production, leading to widespread famine, disease, and social collapse.
  • D. Great Holland Fire of 1871
    The Great Holland Fire of 1871 was a devastating conflagration that destroyed much of Holland, Michigan, during the same period as the Great Chicago Fire and other major Midwest fires.
  • E. Great Depression
    The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic downturn during the 1930s that led to massive unemployment, bank failures, and profound social and political change.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: majorImmigrationCause
Context triple: [Irish American, majorImmigrationCause, Great Famine]
  • A. majorImmigrationPeriod
    Indicates that a time interval represents a significant period during which substantial immigration occurred.
  • B. immigratedTo
    Indicates that an entity moved from its country of origin to live permanently in another specified country or region.
  • C. yearOfImmigration
    Indicates the specific year in which an entity immigrated to a new country or region.
  • D. displacedPeopleEstimate
    Indicates an estimated number of people who have been forced to leave their homes or usual places of residence due to a particular event or situation.
  • E. reasonForRelocation chosen
    Indicates the underlying cause, motivation, or circumstance that led an entity to move from one location 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_69a24c06b3bc8190aa4ac89026115efc completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:59 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24f6997c081908b202f937eb2b14f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2554ffb8c8190a30aceecd7f30d96 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a25943cba88190a78f708d453ce968 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a259c2706c8190b5319c004e207c29 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:58 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a24eab7f408190a8275cb82474f575 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:10 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:03 a.m.