Triple

T1080882
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Army of Northern Virginia E23941 entity
Predicate notableBattle P259 FINISHED
Object Battle of Cold Harbor
The Battle of Cold Harbor was a major and notoriously bloody 1864 Civil War engagement near Richmond, Virginia, in which Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee repelled repeated Union assaults during Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign.
E164646 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: Battle of Cold Harbor | Statement: [Army of Northern Virginia, notableBattle, Battle of Cold Harbor]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Cold Harbor
Context triple: [Army of Northern Virginia, notableBattle, Battle of Cold Harbor]
  • A. Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
    The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House was a major and brutal engagement of the American Civil War’s Overland Campaign in May 1864, marked by intense trench warfare and heavy casualties between Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee.
  • B. Battle of the Wilderness
    The Battle of the Wilderness was a brutal, inconclusive 1864 Civil War clash in dense Virginia woods between Ulysses S. Grant’s Union forces and Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army, marking the start of Grant’s Overland Campaign.
  • C. Second Battle of Winchester
    The Second Battle of Winchester was a major Confederate victory in June 1863 during the American Civil War that opened the Shenandoah Valley for Robert E. Lee’s army and set the stage for the Gettysburg Campaign.
  • D. Battle of Fredericksburg
    The Battle of Fredericksburg was a major American Civil War engagement in December 1862, marked by a decisive Confederate victory and massive Union casualties during repeated frontal assaults against fortified Southern positions in Virginia.
  • E. Battle of Chancellorsville
    The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major American Civil War engagement in 1863 in Virginia, noted for Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s audacious and tactically brilliant victory over a much larger Union force.
  • 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: Battle of Cold Harbor
Triple: [Army of Northern Virginia, notableBattle, Battle of Cold Harbor]
Generated description
The Battle of Cold Harbor was a major and notoriously bloody 1864 Civil War engagement near Richmond, Virginia, in which Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee repelled repeated Union assaults during Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Cold Harbor
Target entity description: The Battle of Cold Harbor was a major and notoriously bloody 1864 Civil War engagement near Richmond, Virginia, in which Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee repelled repeated Union assaults during Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign.
  • A. Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
    The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House was a major and brutal engagement of the American Civil War’s Overland Campaign in May 1864, marked by intense trench warfare and heavy casualties between Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee.
  • B. Battle of the Wilderness
    The Battle of the Wilderness was a brutal, inconclusive 1864 Civil War clash in dense Virginia woods between Ulysses S. Grant’s Union forces and Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army, marking the start of Grant’s Overland Campaign.
  • C. Second Battle of Winchester
    The Second Battle of Winchester was a major Confederate victory in June 1863 during the American Civil War that opened the Shenandoah Valley for Robert E. Lee’s army and set the stage for the Gettysburg Campaign.
  • D. Battle of Fredericksburg
    The Battle of Fredericksburg was a major American Civil War engagement in December 1862, marked by a decisive Confederate victory and massive Union casualties during repeated frontal assaults against fortified Southern positions in Virginia.
  • E. Battle of Chancellorsville
    The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major American Civil War engagement in 1863 in Virginia, noted for Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s audacious and tactically brilliant victory over a much larger Union force.
  • 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_69a493f1ddf48190a99d54b00e99f8ce completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b946af788190b400644a2dec68c3 completed March 1, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad089d492881909c6ef4519c087386 completed March 8, 2026, 5:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad0949cdf88190977da43dd53c72e0 completed March 8, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad09af636c81909d6bf5d65591624e completed March 8, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.