Triple
T1178547
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Sherman’s March to the Sea |
E25082
|
entity |
| Predicate | opponentCommander |
P1698
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William J. Hardee |
E166448
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: William J. Hardee | Statement: [Sherman’s March to the Sea, opponentCommander, William J. Hardee]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William J. Hardee Context triple: [Sherman’s March to the Sea, opponentCommander, William J. Hardee]
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A.
William J. Hardee
chosen
William J. Hardee was a career U.S. Army officer and later Confederate lieutenant general best known for authoring a widely used infantry tactics manual before and during the American Civil War.
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B.
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.
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C.
Gideon J. Pillow
Gideon J. Pillow was a controversial American lawyer, politician, and general who served in both the Mexican–American War and the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
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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.
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E.
Richard H. Anderson
Richard H. Anderson was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who held high-level command positions in the Army of Northern Virginia.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a494267b4c819088c97a59182bf56a |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4bd10ccc481908d5bcef648aab3c1 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:26 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ad4680a04481909e828a70d7fb24ed |
completed | March 8, 2026, 9:50 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.