Triple

T10822810
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject First Battle of Kernstown E255417 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Nathan Kimball
Nathan Kimball was a Union Army officer and brigadier general during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in several key battles in the Shenandoah Valley.
E888173 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: Nathan Kimball | Statement: [First Battle of Kernstown, commander, Nathan Kimball]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nathan Kimball
Context triple: [First Battle of Kernstown, commander, Nathan Kimball]
  • A. Nathan Appleton
    Nathan Appleton was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, industrialist, and politician who played a key role in the early textile industry in New England.
  • B. Narvin Kimball
    Narvin Kimball was an American jazz banjoist and vocalist from New Orleans, best known for his work in traditional jazz and his long association with the Preservation Hall scene.
  • C. Nathaniel Moran
    Nathaniel Moran is a Republican politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 1st congressional district.
  • D. Cyrus Pinkham
    Cyrus Pinkham was a local figure significant enough in New Hampshire’s history or community to have the mountain pass known as Pinkham Notch named in his honor.
  • E. Cyrus Hamlin
    Cyrus Hamlin was a 19th-century American missionary and educator best known for founding Robert College in Constantinople, one of the first American colleges established outside the United States.
  • 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: Nathan Kimball
Triple: [First Battle of Kernstown, commander, Nathan Kimball]
Generated description
Nathan Kimball was a Union Army officer and brigadier general during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in several key battles in the Shenandoah Valley.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nathan Kimball
Target entity description: Nathan Kimball was a Union Army officer and brigadier general during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in several key battles in the Shenandoah Valley.
  • A. Nathan Appleton
    Nathan Appleton was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, industrialist, and politician who played a key role in the early textile industry in New England.
  • B. Narvin Kimball
    Narvin Kimball was an American jazz banjoist and vocalist from New Orleans, best known for his work in traditional jazz and his long association with the Preservation Hall scene.
  • C. Nathaniel Moran
    Nathaniel Moran is a Republican politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 1st congressional district.
  • D. Cyrus Pinkham
    Cyrus Pinkham was a local figure significant enough in New Hampshire’s history or community to have the mountain pass known as Pinkham Notch named in his honor.
  • E. Cyrus Hamlin
    Cyrus Hamlin was a 19th-century American missionary and educator best known for founding Robert College in Constantinople, one of the first American colleges established outside the United States.
  • 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_69d6aa8081448190a9324184f2bd1c26 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7344c551c8190a7491d468b8a4a04 completed April 9, 2026, 5:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69de8578428c8190a25d9008881d0114 completed April 14, 2026, 6:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69de8e6f3fac8190bcd1675978d6d6d7 completed April 14, 2026, 6:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69de8fa679cc81909cb51035e5403ce9 completed April 14, 2026, 7:04 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:18 p.m.