Triple

T13666944
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Ushant (1778) E327144 entity
Predicate relatedEvent P37 FINISHED
Object Keppel–Palliser affair
The Keppel–Palliser affair was a major late-18th-century British naval and political scandal arising from disputes over command decisions and responsibility following the indecisive 1778 Battle of Ushant.
E1052347 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: Keppel–Palliser affair | Statement: [Battle of Ushant (1778), relatedEvent, Keppel–Palliser affair]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Keppel–Palliser affair
Context triple: [Battle of Ushant (1778), relatedEvent, Keppel–Palliser affair]
  • A. Thornton Affair
    The Thornton Affair was an 1846 skirmish between Mexican and U.S. troops along the disputed Texas–Mexico border that helped trigger the Mexican–American War.
  • B. Calas affair
    The Calas affair was an 18th-century French legal case involving the wrongful execution of Protestant merchant Jean Calas, which became a symbol of religious intolerance and judicial injustice and inspired Voltaire’s campaign for civil rights and legal reform.
  • C. Kowshing incident
    The Kowshing incident was an 1894 naval confrontation at the start of the First Sino-Japanese War, in which a British-flagged transport ship carrying Chinese troops was sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy, causing a major diplomatic controversy.
  • D. Morgan affair
    The Morgan affair was an 1826 incident involving the disappearance of William Morgan after he threatened to expose Masonic secrets, which sparked widespread anti-Masonic sentiment in the United States.
  • E. Sian Incident
    The Sian Incident was a 1936 political crisis in China in which Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was detained by his own generals, leading to a negotiated United Front between the Nationalists and Communists against Japanese aggression.
  • 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: Keppel–Palliser affair
Triple: [Battle of Ushant (1778), relatedEvent, Keppel–Palliser affair]
Generated description
The Keppel–Palliser affair was a major late-18th-century British naval and political scandal arising from disputes over command decisions and responsibility following the indecisive 1778 Battle of Ushant.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Keppel–Palliser affair
Target entity description: The Keppel–Palliser affair was a major late-18th-century British naval and political scandal arising from disputes over command decisions and responsibility following the indecisive 1778 Battle of Ushant.
  • A. Thornton Affair
    The Thornton Affair was an 1846 skirmish between Mexican and U.S. troops along the disputed Texas–Mexico border that helped trigger the Mexican–American War.
  • B. Calas affair
    The Calas affair was an 18th-century French legal case involving the wrongful execution of Protestant merchant Jean Calas, which became a symbol of religious intolerance and judicial injustice and inspired Voltaire’s campaign for civil rights and legal reform.
  • C. Kowshing incident
    The Kowshing incident was an 1894 naval confrontation at the start of the First Sino-Japanese War, in which a British-flagged transport ship carrying Chinese troops was sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy, causing a major diplomatic controversy.
  • D. Morgan affair
    The Morgan affair was an 1826 incident involving the disappearance of William Morgan after he threatened to expose Masonic secrets, which sparked widespread anti-Masonic sentiment in the United States.
  • E. Sian Incident
    The Sian Incident was a 1936 political crisis in China in which Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was detained by his own generals, leading to a negotiated United Front between the Nationalists and Communists against Japanese aggression.
  • 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_69d8076d8270819092afc2f0e9c359a8 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbc623fcc88190bbad97541c040b7a completed April 12, 2026, 4:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f78b0cfe0c8190b0fe50931e9788cf completed May 3, 2026, 5:51 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f78bd727048190a57a75294a9ab53d completed May 3, 2026, 5:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f78c9f543481909a0de6a0c3bb041f completed May 3, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:52 p.m.