Triple

T19545407
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Peter Maas E489032 entity
Predicate notableSubject P4941 FINISHED
Object U.S. Navy submarine disaster USS Squalus
The U.S. Navy submarine disaster USS Squalus was a 1939 sinking of an American submarine during a test dive off New Hampshire that led to a dramatic deep-sea rescue and later inspired Peter Maas’s book "The Terrible Hours."
E1382480 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: U.S. Navy submarine disaster USS Squalus | Statement: [Peter Maas, notableSubject, U.S. Navy submarine disaster USS Squalus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: U.S. Navy submarine disaster USS Squalus
Context triple: [Peter Maas, notableSubject, U.S. Navy submarine disaster USS Squalus]
  • A. Soviet submarine K-19
    Soviet submarine K-19 was a Cold War-era nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine of the Soviet Navy, infamous for a catastrophic 1961 reactor accident that exposed its crew to lethal radiation.
  • B. SS Carl D. Bradley shipwreck
    The SS Carl D. Bradley shipwreck is the remains of a Great Lakes freighter that tragically sank in Lake Michigan during a 1958 storm, becoming one of the region’s most infamous maritime disasters.
  • C. Sinking of Steuben
    The Sinking of Steuben was a World War II maritime disaster in the Baltic Sea in which the German passenger ship SS General von Steuben, carrying soldiers and civilians, was torpedoed and sunk by a Soviet submarine in February 1945 with heavy loss of life.
  • D. shipwreck of the Tsimtsum
    The shipwreck of the Tsimtsum is the catastrophic maritime disaster in "Life of Pi" that strands the protagonist at sea and sets the novel’s survival story in motion.
  • E. Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck
    The Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck is the remains of a famous American Great Lakes freighter that sank in a 1975 storm on Lake Superior, becoming one of the region’s most legendary maritime disasters.
  • 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: U.S. Navy submarine disaster USS Squalus
Triple: [Peter Maas, notableSubject, U.S. Navy submarine disaster USS Squalus]
Generated description
The U.S. Navy submarine disaster USS Squalus was a 1939 sinking of an American submarine during a test dive off New Hampshire that led to a dramatic deep-sea rescue and later inspired Peter Maas’s book "The Terrible Hours."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: U.S. Navy submarine disaster USS Squalus
Target entity description: The U.S. Navy submarine disaster USS Squalus was a 1939 sinking of an American submarine during a test dive off New Hampshire that led to a dramatic deep-sea rescue and later inspired Peter Maas’s book "The Terrible Hours."
  • A. Soviet submarine K-19
    Soviet submarine K-19 was a Cold War-era nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine of the Soviet Navy, infamous for a catastrophic 1961 reactor accident that exposed its crew to lethal radiation.
  • B. SS Carl D. Bradley shipwreck
    The SS Carl D. Bradley shipwreck is the remains of a Great Lakes freighter that tragically sank in Lake Michigan during a 1958 storm, becoming one of the region’s most infamous maritime disasters.
  • C. Sinking of Steuben
    The Sinking of Steuben was a World War II maritime disaster in the Baltic Sea in which the German passenger ship SS General von Steuben, carrying soldiers and civilians, was torpedoed and sunk by a Soviet submarine in February 1945 with heavy loss of life.
  • D. shipwreck of the Tsimtsum
    The shipwreck of the Tsimtsum is the catastrophic maritime disaster in "Life of Pi" that strands the protagonist at sea and sets the novel’s survival story in motion.
  • E. Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck
    The Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck is the remains of a famous American Great Lakes freighter that sank in a 1975 storm on Lake Superior, becoming one of the region’s most legendary maritime disasters.
  • 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_69d8e8db5b6c8190984b61f91981f575 completed April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e63876bacc8190b17e2087de679785 completed April 20, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a074e86e6ec81908c81fece17063d1f completed May 15, 2026, 4:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07508df47481908243632334ac7dae completed May 15, 2026, 4:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07510c6a188190accce6a17202ace8 completed May 15, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:41 p.m.