Triple

T19571517
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Marcus Whitman E489727 entity
Predicate notableEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Whitman massacre
The Whitman massacre was an 1847 killing of missionary Marcus Whitman, his wife, and others by Cayuse tribesmen in what is now Washington State, an event that intensified conflict between Native Americans and American settlers in the Pacific Northwest.
E1383749 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: Whitman massacre | Statement: [Marcus Whitman, notableEvent, Whitman massacre]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Whitman massacre
Context triple: [Marcus Whitman, notableEvent, Whitman massacre]
  • A. Fort Robinson massacre
    The Fort Robinson massacre was a violent 1879 U.S. Army attack and subsequent deaths of Northern Cheyenne people imprisoned at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, during their attempt to escape confinement and return to their homeland.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Bridge Gulch Massacre
    The Bridge Gulch Massacre was an 1852 mass killing of Wintu people in Trinity County, California, carried out by a militia as part of the broader campaign of violence against Indigenous Californians.
  • D. Bear River Massacre
    The Bear River Massacre was an 1863 U.S. Army attack in present-day Idaho in which hundreds of Northwestern Shoshone people were killed, making it one of the deadliest massacres of Native Americans in U.S. history.
  • E. Washita Massacre
    The Washita Massacre was an 1868 U.S. Army attack led by George Armstrong Custer on a Southern Cheyenne village in present-day Oklahoma, resulting in the deaths of many Native American men, women, and children and becoming a symbol of the violence of the Indian Wars.
  • 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: Whitman massacre
Triple: [Marcus Whitman, notableEvent, Whitman massacre]
Generated description
The Whitman massacre was an 1847 killing of missionary Marcus Whitman, his wife, and others by Cayuse tribesmen in what is now Washington State, an event that intensified conflict between Native Americans and American settlers in the Pacific Northwest.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Whitman massacre
Target entity description: The Whitman massacre was an 1847 killing of missionary Marcus Whitman, his wife, and others by Cayuse tribesmen in what is now Washington State, an event that intensified conflict between Native Americans and American settlers in the Pacific Northwest.
  • A. Fort Robinson massacre
    The Fort Robinson massacre was a violent 1879 U.S. Army attack and subsequent deaths of Northern Cheyenne people imprisoned at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, during their attempt to escape confinement and return to their homeland.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Bridge Gulch Massacre
    The Bridge Gulch Massacre was an 1852 mass killing of Wintu people in Trinity County, California, carried out by a militia as part of the broader campaign of violence against Indigenous Californians.
  • D. Bear River Massacre
    The Bear River Massacre was an 1863 U.S. Army attack in present-day Idaho in which hundreds of Northwestern Shoshone people were killed, making it one of the deadliest massacres of Native Americans in U.S. history.
  • E. Washita Massacre
    The Washita Massacre was an 1868 U.S. Army attack led by George Armstrong Custer on a Southern Cheyenne village in present-day Oklahoma, resulting in the deaths of many Native American men, women, and children and becoming a symbol of the violence of the Indian Wars.
  • 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_69d8e8dd9374819098e36349b3211663 completed April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6402103208190b80acdfa82b7a9c4 completed April 20, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07578b96d08190a25990879135b598 completed May 15, 2026, 5:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a075865eaac819085b35d165fda91d4 completed May 15, 2026, 5:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07590b84488190a33889335ba95c95 completed May 15, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:42 p.m.