Triple

T10304500
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Fort Ridgely E241715 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Thomas J. Sheehan
Thomas J. Sheehan was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the defense of Fort Ridgely during the U.S.–Dakota War of 1862.
 E921045 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: Thomas J. Sheehan | Statement: [Battle of Fort Ridgely, commander, Thomas J. Sheehan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas J. Sheehan
Context triple: [Battle of Fort Ridgely, commander, Thomas J. Sheehan]
  • A. James T. O'Donohoe
    James T. O'Donohoe was an American screenwriter active during the silent and early sound film era.
  • B. Joseph A. McDonough
    Joseph A. McDonough was a Hollywood film assistant director recognized in the 1930s for his award-winning work in the early years of the Academy Awards.
  • C. Joseph J. O’Donnell
    Joseph J. O’Donnell is a Harvard alumnus and philanthropist known for his significant contributions to the university, particularly to its athletic facilities.
  • D. Joseph B. Keenan
    Joseph B. Keenan was an American lawyer and U.S. Assistant Attorney General who served as the chief prosecutor in the post–World War II Tokyo war crimes trials.
  • E. Richard M. Linnehan
    Richard M. Linnehan is a NASA astronaut and veterinarian best known for his spacewalks and work on multiple Space Shuttle missions, including servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • 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: Thomas J. Sheehan
Triple: [Battle of Fort Ridgely, commander, Thomas J. Sheehan]
Generated description
Thomas J. Sheehan was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the defense of Fort Ridgely during the U.S.–Dakota War of 1862.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas J. Sheehan
Target entity description: Thomas J. Sheehan was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the defense of Fort Ridgely during the U.S.–Dakota War of 1862.
  • A. James T. O'Donohoe
    James T. O'Donohoe was an American screenwriter active during the silent and early sound film era.
  • B. Joseph A. McDonough
    Joseph A. McDonough was a Hollywood film assistant director recognized in the 1930s for his award-winning work in the early years of the Academy Awards.
  • C. Joseph J. O’Donnell
    Joseph J. O’Donnell is a Harvard alumnus and philanthropist known for his significant contributions to the university, particularly to its athletic facilities.
  • D. Joseph B. Keenan
    Joseph B. Keenan was an American lawyer and U.S. Assistant Attorney General who served as the chief prosecutor in the post–World War II Tokyo war crimes trials.
  • E. Richard M. Linnehan
    Richard M. Linnehan is a NASA astronaut and veterinarian best known for his spacewalks and work on multiple Space Shuttle missions, including servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • 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_69d381ac38808190a8ca7457c85b625b completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4d308f034819098da69b963eb8a02 completed April 7, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e5561714a081909cbf1cc7d5d0ac0a completed April 19, 2026, 10:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e562bb085c8190942766d12d838798 completed April 19, 2026, 11:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e569f0e6948190b285ca84aca03771 completed April 19, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:45 a.m.