Triple

T76083
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Altmark Incident E1520 entity
Predicate involvedShip P862 FINISHED
Object HMS Cossack
HMS Cossack was a British Royal Navy destroyer best known for its daring 1940 boarding of the German tanker Altmark in Norwegian waters to free hundreds of Allied prisoners.
E9496 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: HMS Cossack | Statement: [Altmark Incident, involvedShip, HMS Cossack]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: HMS Cossack
Context triple: [Altmark Incident, involvedShip, HMS Cossack]
  • A. Lord Jellicoe
    Lord Jellicoe was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for commanding the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland during World War I and later serving in senior naval and imperial administrative roles.
  • B. German tanker Altmark
    The German tanker Altmark was a World War II-era naval auxiliary ship of Nazi Germany, best known for its role in the 1940 Altmark Incident involving the rescue of British prisoners in Norwegian waters.
  • C. Kaga
    Kaga was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk at the Battle of Midway in 1942.
  • D. USS West Virginia (BB-48)
    USS West Virginia (BB-48) was a Colorado-class battleship of the United States Navy that was sunk and later refloated and modernized after the Pearl Harbor attack, subsequently serving in major Pacific Theater operations during World War II.
  • E. USS Nevada (BB-36)
    USS Nevada (BB-36) was a United States Navy battleship notable for its World War I and World War II service, including being the only battleship to get underway during the attack on Pearl Harbor and later supporting major Allied amphibious operations in Europe and the Pacific.
  • 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: HMS Cossack
Triple: [Altmark Incident, involvedShip, HMS Cossack]
Generated description
HMS Cossack was a British Royal Navy destroyer best known for its daring 1940 boarding of the German tanker Altmark in Norwegian waters to free hundreds of Allied prisoners.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: HMS Cossack
Target entity description: HMS Cossack was a British Royal Navy destroyer best known for its daring 1940 boarding of the German tanker Altmark in Norwegian waters to free hundreds of Allied prisoners.
  • A. Lord Jellicoe
    Lord Jellicoe was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for commanding the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland during World War I and later serving in senior naval and imperial administrative roles.
  • B. German tanker Altmark
    The German tanker Altmark was a World War II-era naval auxiliary ship of Nazi Germany, best known for its role in the 1940 Altmark Incident involving the rescue of British prisoners in Norwegian waters.
  • C. Kaga
    Kaga was a Japanese aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy that played a major role in early Pacific War operations before being sunk at the Battle of Midway in 1942.
  • D. USS West Virginia (BB-48)
    USS West Virginia (BB-48) was a Colorado-class battleship of the United States Navy that was sunk and later refloated and modernized after the Pearl Harbor attack, subsequently serving in major Pacific Theater operations during World War II.
  • E. USS Nevada (BB-36)
    USS Nevada (BB-36) was a United States Navy battleship notable for its World War I and World War II service, including being the only battleship to get underway during the attack on Pearl Harbor and later supporting major Allied amphibious operations in Europe and the Pacific.
  • 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_69a24c60d19c8190a1b6c105ca59ef5b completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2567c90308190a9b989c586f7e559 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a266ea53f48190a0a09700697ffd45 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a26ada5f908190afcc754be9fffd07 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 4:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a26b668a948190811c208dae793975 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 4:13 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:06 a.m.