Triple

T12567979
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Cornwallis E295520 entity
Predicate notableFor P22 FINISHED
Object Cornwallis’s Retreat
Cornwallis’s Retreat was a celebrated 18th-century naval maneuver in which British Admiral William Cornwallis skillfully withdrew a smaller squadron from a superior French fleet, preserving his forces and enhancing his reputation.
E990756 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: Cornwallis’s Retreat | Statement: [William Cornwallis, notableFor, Cornwallis’s Retreat]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cornwallis’s Retreat
Context triple: [William Cornwallis, notableFor, Cornwallis’s Retreat]
  • A. Siege of Yorktown
    The Siege of Yorktown was the decisive 1781 American Revolutionary War battle in which combined American and French forces forced the surrender of a major British army, effectively securing American independence.
  • B. Battle of Camden
    The Battle of Camden was a major 1780 British victory in South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War that severely weakened American forces in the South under General Horatio Gates.
  • C. Dorchester Heights
    Dorchester Heights is a historic site in South Boston where Continental Army fortifications in 1776 forced the British evacuation during the American Revolutionary War.
  • D. Bermuda Hundred Campaign
    The Bermuda Hundred Campaign was a series of American Civil War operations in May 1864 in which Union forces attempted, but ultimately failed, to advance on Richmond and Petersburg via the Bermuda Hundred peninsula in Virginia.
  • E. New York and New England campaign of 1781
    The New York and New England campaign of 1781 was a late–Revolutionary War series of British and American military operations in the northeastern colonies aimed at raiding coastal towns, disrupting supply lines, and diverting forces from the main theaters of conflict.
  • 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: Cornwallis’s Retreat
Triple: [William Cornwallis, notableFor, Cornwallis’s Retreat]
Generated description
Cornwallis’s Retreat was a celebrated 18th-century naval maneuver in which British Admiral William Cornwallis skillfully withdrew a smaller squadron from a superior French fleet, preserving his forces and enhancing his reputation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cornwallis’s Retreat
Target entity description: Cornwallis’s Retreat was a celebrated 18th-century naval maneuver in which British Admiral William Cornwallis skillfully withdrew a smaller squadron from a superior French fleet, preserving his forces and enhancing his reputation.
  • A. Siege of Yorktown
    The Siege of Yorktown was the decisive 1781 American Revolutionary War battle in which combined American and French forces forced the surrender of a major British army, effectively securing American independence.
  • B. Battle of Camden
    The Battle of Camden was a major 1780 British victory in South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War that severely weakened American forces in the South under General Horatio Gates.
  • C. Dorchester Heights
    Dorchester Heights is a historic site in South Boston where Continental Army fortifications in 1776 forced the British evacuation during the American Revolutionary War.
  • D. Bermuda Hundred Campaign
    The Bermuda Hundred Campaign was a series of American Civil War operations in May 1864 in which Union forces attempted, but ultimately failed, to advance on Richmond and Petersburg via the Bermuda Hundred peninsula in Virginia.
  • E. New York and New England campaign of 1781
    The New York and New England campaign of 1781 was a late–Revolutionary War series of British and American military operations in the northeastern colonies aimed at raiding coastal towns, disrupting supply lines, and diverting forces from the main theaters of conflict.
  • 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_69d6ad9cac2c81908e8a7bed82d1e21d completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d954a325948190994bcfc9d571a3a8 completed April 10, 2026, 7:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f655914f908190afbebbec3cb57e73 completed May 2, 2026, 7:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f657e504c881909b960acc7758b39d completed May 2, 2026, 8 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f658a80fd08190b1b8c161ca6e56ec completed May 2, 2026, 8:03 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 11:50 p.m.