Triple

T11131608
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of White Bird Canyon E263296 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object First Lieutenant William R. Parnell
First Lieutenant William R. Parnell was a U.S. Army officer known for his leadership during the Nez Perce War, particularly for commanding troops in key engagements such as the Battle of White Bird Canyon.
E907787 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 William R. Parnell | Statement: [Battle of White Bird Canyon, commander, First Lieutenant William R. Parnell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: First Lieutenant William R. Parnell
Context triple: [Battle of White Bird Canyon, commander, First Lieutenant William R. Parnell]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 1st Lieutenant Edward J. Peterson
    1st Lieutenant Edward J. Peterson was a U.S. Air Force officer whose legacy is honored through the naming of Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado.
  • C. Corporal Frank S. Scott
    Corporal Frank S. Scott was a U.S. Army aviation mechanic recognized as the first enlisted airman to die in an aircraft accident, for whom Scott Air Force Base 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. Corporal Timothy Upham
    Corporal Timothy Upham is a timid and bookish translator-turned-soldier in the film "Saving Private Ryan," whose moral struggles and inexperience starkly contrast with the hardened combat veterans around him.
  • 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 William R. Parnell
Triple: [Battle of White Bird Canyon, commander, First Lieutenant William R. Parnell]
Generated description
First Lieutenant William R. Parnell was a U.S. Army officer known for his leadership during the Nez Perce War, particularly for commanding troops in key engagements such as the Battle of White Bird Canyon.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: First Lieutenant William R. Parnell
Target entity description: First Lieutenant William R. Parnell was a U.S. Army officer known for his leadership during the Nez Perce War, particularly for commanding troops in key engagements such as the Battle of White Bird Canyon.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 1st Lieutenant Edward J. Peterson
    1st Lieutenant Edward J. Peterson was a U.S. Air Force officer whose legacy is honored through the naming of Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado.
  • C. Corporal Frank S. Scott
    Corporal Frank S. Scott was a U.S. Army aviation mechanic recognized as the first enlisted airman to die in an aircraft accident, for whom Scott Air Force Base 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. Corporal Timothy Upham
    Corporal Timothy Upham is a timid and bookish translator-turned-soldier in the film "Saving Private Ryan," whose moral struggles and inexperience starkly contrast with the hardened combat veterans around him.
  • 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.