Triple
T10340360
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Colonel Walter E. Kurtz |
E243111
|
entity |
| Predicate | missionTargetOf |
P60884
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Captain Benjamin L. Willard |
E244396
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Captain Benjamin L. Willard | Statement: [Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, missionTargetOf, Captain Benjamin L. Willard]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain Benjamin L. Willard Context triple: [Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, missionTargetOf, Captain Benjamin L. Willard]
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A.
Captain Benjamin L. Willard
chosen
Captain Benjamin L. Willard is the introspective and morally conflicted U.S. Army officer sent on a covert mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz in the Vietnam War film "Apocalypse Now."
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B.
Captain Thomas Lathrop
Captain Thomas Lathrop was a colonial militia officer in 17th-century Massachusetts, best known for leading and losing his company in the devastating ambush later called the Battle of Bloody Brook during King Philip’s War.
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C.
Captain Joseph Calloway Lea
Captain Joseph Calloway Lea was a prominent early settler and influential figure in southeastern New Mexico whose leadership and contributions to the region led to a county being named in his honor.
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D.
Commandant William Ward Burrows
Commandant William Ward Burrows was the second Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, noted for shaping the early Corps’ organization and establishing key institutions in its formative years.
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E.
Captain Thomas L. Roberts
Captain Thomas L. Roberts was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading Union troops in the 1862 Battle of Apache Pass during the American Civil War in the Southwest.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: missionTargetOf Context triple: [Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, missionTargetOf, Captain Benjamin L. Willard]
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A.
missionTo
Indicates that one entity is assigned, directed, or sent to carry out a specific mission involving another entity or location.
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B.
missionName
Indicates the designated title or label assigned to a specific mission or operation.
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C.
intendedMission
Indicates that one entity is the planned or designated mission, task, or objective associated with another entity.
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D.
isTargetOfMission
chosen
Indicates that an entity is the intended objective or focus of a particular mission or operation.
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E.
missionFocus
Indicates that an entity’s primary attention, effort, or resources are directed toward a particular mission, goal, or objective.
- F. None of above.
Provenance (4 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_69d381af787481908bc401325c760a88 |
completed | April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d4e91fdb2081909866c6ecf417d75a |
completed | April 7, 2026, 11:23 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d7506a07888190b91e78247e81fe57 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 7:08 a.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69d4df9dc3208190bf1bd106f44f6202 |
completed | April 7, 2026, 10:42 a.m. |
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:54 a.m.