Triple

T13573947
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Utah Territory E324233 entity
Predicate significantEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Mountain Meadows massacre
The Mountain Meadows massacre was an 1857 mass killing of a wagon train of emigrants by Mormon militia and allied Native Americans in southern Utah, and is considered one of the darkest episodes in the history of the American West.
E1049371 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: Mountain Meadows massacre | Statement: [Utah Territory, significantEvent, Mountain Meadows massacre]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mountain Meadows massacre
Context triple: [Utah Territory, significantEvent, Mountain Meadows massacre]
  • A. Sand Creek Massacre
    The Sand Creek Massacre was an 1864 attack in which Colorado U.S. volunteer cavalry brutally killed and mutilated a large number of Cheyenne and Arapaho people, many of them women and children, in one of the most infamous atrocities against Native Americans in U.S. history.
  • B. Wyoming Massacre
    The Wyoming Massacre was a brutal 1778 American Revolutionary War attack in Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Valley, where British-allied Loyalist and Iroquois forces killed many American settlers.
  • C. Camp Verde Indian massacre of 1875
    The Camp Verde Indian massacre of 1875 was a brutal attack in Arizona Territory in which U.S. forces killed and forcibly removed Yavapai people during the wider campaign of violence and displacement against Native Americans.
  • D. Marais des Cygnes massacre
    The Marais des Cygnes massacre was an 1858 attack in Kansas Territory in which pro-slavery militants executed a group of free-state men, becoming one of the most notorious episodes of violence in the Bleeding Kansas conflict.
  • E. 1860 Wiyot Massacre
    The 1860 Wiyot Massacre was a brutal attack by white settlers on the Wiyot people during their World Renewal Ceremony on Indian Island near Eureka, California, resulting in the killing of dozens of Native men, women, and children.
  • 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: Mountain Meadows massacre
Triple: [Utah Territory, significantEvent, Mountain Meadows massacre]
Generated description
The Mountain Meadows massacre was an 1857 mass killing of a wagon train of emigrants by Mormon militia and allied Native Americans in southern Utah, and is considered one of the darkest episodes in the history of the American West.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mountain Meadows massacre
Target entity description: The Mountain Meadows massacre was an 1857 mass killing of a wagon train of emigrants by Mormon militia and allied Native Americans in southern Utah, and is considered one of the darkest episodes in the history of the American West.
  • A. Sand Creek Massacre
    The Sand Creek Massacre was an 1864 attack in which Colorado U.S. volunteer cavalry brutally killed and mutilated a large number of Cheyenne and Arapaho people, many of them women and children, in one of the most infamous atrocities against Native Americans in U.S. history.
  • B. Wyoming Massacre
    The Wyoming Massacre was a brutal 1778 American Revolutionary War attack in Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Valley, where British-allied Loyalist and Iroquois forces killed many American settlers.
  • C. Camp Verde Indian massacre of 1875
    The Camp Verde Indian massacre of 1875 was a brutal attack in Arizona Territory in which U.S. forces killed and forcibly removed Yavapai people during the wider campaign of violence and displacement against Native Americans.
  • D. Marais des Cygnes massacre
    The Marais des Cygnes massacre was an 1858 attack in Kansas Territory in which pro-slavery militants executed a group of free-state men, becoming one of the most notorious episodes of violence in the Bleeding Kansas conflict.
  • E. 1860 Wiyot Massacre
    The 1860 Wiyot Massacre was a brutal attack by white settlers on the Wiyot people during their World Renewal Ceremony on Indian Island near Eureka, California, resulting in the killing of dozens of Native men, women, and children.
  • 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_69d80769100c819099111274614f5ed2 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbb0106cb48190b20eb9bda131a68a completed April 12, 2026, 2:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f76bb827d48190958e5710d554cd04 completed May 3, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f77641e5308190a75bcffeb9bfd7b4 completed May 3, 2026, 4:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f77923fd1481908af251a1dcbcf441 completed May 3, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:48 p.m.