Triple

T12503833
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Assault on Fort Wagner E298894 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object William B. Taliaferro
William B. Taliaferro was a Confederate general during the American Civil War who held several important field commands in the Eastern Theater.
 E1019818 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: William B. Taliaferro | Statement: [Assault on Fort Wagner, commander, William B. Taliaferro]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William B. Taliaferro
Context triple: [Assault on Fort Wagner, commander, William B. Taliaferro]
  • A. Samuel M. Ralston
    Samuel M. Ralston was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Indiana and later as a U.S. senator in the early 20th century.
  • B. Abraham B. Venable
    Abraham B. Venable was an American politician and former U.S. congressman from Virginia who died in the 1811 Richmond Theatre fire.
  • C. Edmund J. Davis
    Edmund J. Davis was a controversial Reconstruction-era Republican who served as governor of Texas from 1870 to 1874 and played a key role in reshaping the state's post–Civil War government.
  • D. William R. Burnham
    William R. Burnham was an American architect known for his partnership in the Denver-based firm Edbrooke and Burnham, which designed prominent late 19th-century buildings.
  • E. Augustus W. Robins
    Augustus W. Robins was a U.S. Army Air Corps officer whose legacy is commemorated in the naming of the city of Warner Robins, Georgia.
  • 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: William B. Taliaferro
Triple: [Assault on Fort Wagner, commander, William B. Taliaferro]
Generated description
William B. Taliaferro was a Confederate general during the American Civil War who held several important field commands in the Eastern Theater.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William B. Taliaferro
Target entity description: William B. Taliaferro was a Confederate general during the American Civil War who held several important field commands in the Eastern Theater.
  • A. Samuel M. Ralston
    Samuel M. Ralston was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Indiana and later as a U.S. senator in the early 20th century.
  • B. Abraham B. Venable
    Abraham B. Venable was an American politician and former U.S. congressman from Virginia who died in the 1811 Richmond Theatre fire.
  • C. Edmund J. Davis
    Edmund J. Davis was a controversial Reconstruction-era Republican who served as governor of Texas from 1870 to 1874 and played a key role in reshaping the state's post–Civil War government.
  • D. William R. Burnham
    William R. Burnham was an American architect known for his partnership in the Denver-based firm Edbrooke and Burnham, which designed prominent late 19th-century buildings.
  • E. Augustus W. Robins
    Augustus W. Robins was a U.S. Army Air Corps officer whose legacy is commemorated in the naming of the city of Warner Robins, Georgia.
  • 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_69d6ada4cd388190ae3bbf83ff87057a completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d94dfcea188190a929db1aabe1a286 completed April 10, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6d5e7daa08190917f446c06adece3 completed May 3, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6d795ccd08190bbd76193e0a003be completed May 3, 2026, 5:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6d8760acc81908922ce960cbbd250 completed May 3, 2026, 5:09 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:57 p.m.