Triple

T1050993

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Confederate military leadership	`E22697`	entity
Predicate	notableCommander	`P1197`	FINISHED
Object	Joseph E. Johnston Joseph E. Johnston was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War, known for his cautious defensive strategies and key roles in campaigns such as those in Virginia and the Western Theater.	`E138811`	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: Joseph E. Johnston | Statement: [Confederate military leadership, notableCommander, Joseph E. Johnston]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Joseph E. Johnston
Context triple: [Confederate military leadership, notableCommander, Joseph E. Johnston]

A. James Longstreet
James Longstreet was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War, best known as one of Robert E. Lee’s most trusted corps commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia.
B. Braxton Bragg
Braxton Bragg was a Confederate general in the American Civil War, known for his controversial leadership and later service as a military adviser.
C. Major General Jubal A. Early
Major General Jubal A. Early was a Confederate Civil War commander known for his aggressive leadership in the Army of Northern Virginia and his prominent role in several key battles, including Gettysburg.
D. Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard
Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard was a prominent Confederate general in the American Civil War, noted for directing the opening attack of the conflict and later commanding major Southern armies in the Eastern and Western theaters.
E. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a U.S. Army lieutenant general in World War II who led the Tenth Army in the Pacific and was the highest-ranking American officer killed by enemy fire during the war.
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: Joseph E. Johnston
Triple: [Confederate military leadership, notableCommander, Joseph E. Johnston]

Generated description

Joseph E. Johnston was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War, known for his cautious defensive strategies and key roles in campaigns such as those in Virginia and the Western Theater.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Joseph E. Johnston
Target entity description: Joseph E. Johnston was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War, known for his cautious defensive strategies and key roles in campaigns such as those in Virginia and the Western Theater.

A. James Longstreet
James Longstreet was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War, best known as one of Robert E. Lee’s most trusted corps commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia.
B. Braxton Bragg
Braxton Bragg was a Confederate general in the American Civil War, known for his controversial leadership and later service as a military adviser.
C. Major General Jubal A. Early
Major General Jubal A. Early was a Confederate Civil War commander known for his aggressive leadership in the Army of Northern Virginia and his prominent role in several key battles, including Gettysburg.
D. Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard
Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard was a prominent Confederate general in the American Civil War, noted for directing the opening attack of the conflict and later commanding major Southern armies in the Eastern and Western theaters.
E. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a U.S. Army lieutenant general in World War II who led the Tenth Army in the Pacific and was the highest-ranking American officer killed by enemy fire during the war.
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_69a493da02e081908c13ff5e02a0fe7a`	completed	March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69a4b8b40d50819091cb37a2236e82ee`	completed	March 1, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_69ac8303cbec8190a3b8a9bad2434ee7`	completed	March 7, 2026, 7:56 p.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_69ac83a2d15c8190abd20fa3a98b89cf`	completed	March 7, 2026, 7:59 p.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_69ac84131858819097330fb693b3f0bd`	completed	March 7, 2026, 8:01 p.m.

Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.