Triple

T11131607
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of White Bird Canyon E263296 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object First Lieutenant Edward Theller
First Lieutenant Edward Theller was a U.S. Army officer known for his role in the Nez Perce War, particularly for commanding troops during the Battle of White Bird Canyon in 1877.
E907786 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: First Lieutenant Edward Theller | Statement: [Battle of White Bird Canyon, commander, First Lieutenant Edward Theller]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: First Lieutenant Edward Theller
Context triple: [Battle of White Bird Canyon, commander, First Lieutenant Edward Theller]
  • A. Lieutenant Thomas Glahn
    Lieutenant Thomas Glahn is the introspective, nature-obsessed protagonist of Knut Hamsun’s novel *Pan*, whose turbulent love affairs and retreat into the Norwegian wilderness explore themes of passion, isolation, and psychological complexity.
  • B. Lieutenant George Nicholas Bascom
    Lieutenant George Nicholas Bascom was a U.S. Army officer best known for his role in the 1861 Bascom Affair, a pivotal incident that helped ignite prolonged conflict with the Apache in the American Southwest.
  • C. Lt. Frank Benjamin Tyndall
    Lt. Frank Benjamin Tyndall was a U.S. Army Air Service pilot and World War I flying ace after whom Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida is named.
  • D. Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton
    Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton was a real-life U.S. Army officer of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was prominently depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
  • E. Lieutenant William F. Kinderman
    Lieutenant William F. Kinderman is a seasoned, introspective police detective who investigates a series of gruesome, seemingly supernatural murders in the horror film *The Exorcist III*.
  • 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: First Lieutenant Edward Theller
Triple: [Battle of White Bird Canyon, commander, First Lieutenant Edward Theller]
Generated description
First Lieutenant Edward Theller was a U.S. Army officer known for his role in the Nez Perce War, particularly for commanding troops during the Battle of White Bird Canyon in 1877.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: First Lieutenant Edward Theller
Target entity description: First Lieutenant Edward Theller was a U.S. Army officer known for his role in the Nez Perce War, particularly for commanding troops during the Battle of White Bird Canyon in 1877.
  • A. Lieutenant Thomas Glahn
    Lieutenant Thomas Glahn is the introspective, nature-obsessed protagonist of Knut Hamsun’s novel *Pan*, whose turbulent love affairs and retreat into the Norwegian wilderness explore themes of passion, isolation, and psychological complexity.
  • B. Lieutenant George Nicholas Bascom
    Lieutenant George Nicholas Bascom was a U.S. Army officer best known for his role in the 1861 Bascom Affair, a pivotal incident that helped ignite prolonged conflict with the Apache in the American Southwest.
  • C. Lt. Frank Benjamin Tyndall
    Lt. Frank Benjamin Tyndall was a U.S. Army Air Service pilot and World War I flying ace after whom Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida is named.
  • D. Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton
    Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton was a real-life U.S. Army officer of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, whose World War II service was prominently depicted in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
  • E. Lieutenant William F. Kinderman
    Lieutenant William F. Kinderman is a seasoned, introspective police detective who investigates a series of gruesome, seemingly supernatural murders in the horror film *The Exorcist III*.
  • 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_69d6aa9c0ba08190bbd19c217489b755 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e831f4808190afabdaa0e97bbe32 completed April 9, 2026, 5:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e441e6b72881908f8288e99df0cb7c completed April 19, 2026, 2:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e44c09163481909d6a469b1e50b6ff completed April 19, 2026, 3:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e4519f4d408190be9863c72006ecad completed April 19, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:28 p.m.