Triple

T1019504
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Texas Revolution E22007 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object William B. Travis
William B. Travis was a 19th-century American lawyer and soldier best known for co-commanding the Texian forces and dying in the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution.
E128858 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: William B. Travis | Statement: [Texas Revolution, commander, William B. Travis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William B. Travis
Context triple: [Texas Revolution, commander, William B. Travis]
  • A. James Fannin
    James Fannin was a 19th-century American-born Texian military leader best known for his role in the Texas Revolution and his execution following the Goliad Massacre.
  • B. Sam Houston
    Sam Houston was a prominent 19th-century American statesman and military leader best known for securing Texas’s independence from Mexico and serving as both President of the Republic of Texas and later Governor of Texas.
  • C. Stephen F. Austin
    Stephen F. Austin was an early American empresario known as the "Father of Texas" for leading the successful colonization of the region by Anglo-American settlers.
  • D. Mirabeau B. Lamar
    Mirabeau B. Lamar was the second president of the Republic of Texas, known for his expansionist policies and efforts to promote public education.
  • E. Thomas Ewing
    Thomas Ewing was a 19th-century American politician and statesman who served in the U.S. Senate and held multiple cabinet positions, including being the inaugural Secretary of the Interior.
  • 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: William B. Travis
Triple: [Texas Revolution, commander, William B. Travis]
Generated description
William B. Travis was a 19th-century American lawyer and soldier best known for co-commanding the Texian forces and dying in the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William B. Travis
Target entity description: William B. Travis was a 19th-century American lawyer and soldier best known for co-commanding the Texian forces and dying in the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution.
  • A. James Fannin
    James Fannin was a 19th-century American-born Texian military leader best known for his role in the Texas Revolution and his execution following the Goliad Massacre.
  • B. Sam Houston
    Sam Houston was a prominent 19th-century American statesman and military leader best known for securing Texas’s independence from Mexico and serving as both President of the Republic of Texas and later Governor of Texas.
  • C. Stephen F. Austin
    Stephen F. Austin was an early American empresario known as the "Father of Texas" for leading the successful colonization of the region by Anglo-American settlers.
  • D. Mirabeau B. Lamar
    Mirabeau B. Lamar was the second president of the Republic of Texas, known for his expansionist policies and efforts to promote public education.
  • E. Thomas Ewing
    Thomas Ewing was a 19th-century American politician and statesman who served in the U.S. Senate and held multiple cabinet positions, including being the inaugural Secretary of the Interior.
  • 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_69a493d6e380819097b384986ffc315c completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b7dbcf7c8190858b2d16a27bd2ff completed March 1, 2026, 10:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac5381e020819094e02c3d20acab95 completed March 7, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac5562cfcc8190a360429aef88f159 completed March 7, 2026, 4:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac55b9aae48190b35546b87eb82cd9 completed March 7, 2026, 4:43 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.