Triple

T1051022
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Confederate military leadership E22697 entity
Predicate hasOfficeHolder P537 FINISHED
Object Earl Van Dorn
Earl Van Dorn was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, known for his aggressive cavalry raids and controversial battlefield leadership in the Western Theater.
E165033 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: Earl Van Dorn | Statement: [Confederate military leadership, hasOfficeHolder, Earl Van Dorn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Earl Van Dorn
Context triple: [Confederate military leadership, hasOfficeHolder, Earl Van Dorn]
  • A. Patrick Cleburne
    Patrick Cleburne was an Irish-born Confederate major general in the American Civil War, renowned for his tactical skill and his controversial proposal to arm enslaved people in exchange for their freedom.
  • B. 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.
  • C. John Bell Hood
    John Bell Hood was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War, known for his aggressive tactics and costly offensives, particularly in the Atlanta and Franklin–Nashville campaigns.
  • D. Robert S. Garnett
    Robert S. Garnett was an American artist best known for creating the original design of the Great Seal of the State of California.
  • E. Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr.
    Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. was a Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War who later served as the 30th governor of Kentucky.
  • 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: Earl Van Dorn
Triple: [Confederate military leadership, hasOfficeHolder, Earl Van Dorn]
Generated description
Earl Van Dorn was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, known for his aggressive cavalry raids and controversial battlefield leadership in the Western Theater.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Earl Van Dorn
Target entity description: Earl Van Dorn was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, known for his aggressive cavalry raids and controversial battlefield leadership in the Western Theater.
  • A. Patrick Cleburne
    Patrick Cleburne was an Irish-born Confederate major general in the American Civil War, renowned for his tactical skill and his controversial proposal to arm enslaved people in exchange for their freedom.
  • B. 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.
  • C. John Bell Hood
    John Bell Hood was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War, known for his aggressive tactics and costly offensives, particularly in the Atlanta and Franklin–Nashville campaigns.
  • D. Robert S. Garnett
    Robert S. Garnett was an American artist best known for creating the original design of the Great Seal of the State of California.
  • E. Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr.
    Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. was a Confederate lieutenant general during the American Civil War who later served as the 30th governor of Kentucky.
  • 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_69ad08995af88190930a952bd32cd918 completed March 8, 2026, 5:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad098f9fd0819094d9478881ca1a46 completed March 8, 2026, 5:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad0a6c7aa08190b21b00c03f04af27 completed March 8, 2026, 5:34 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.