Triple

T13364526
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Union Army of Northeastern Virginia E318903 entity
Predicate commanderRank P2084 FINISHED
Object brigadier general (Irvin McDowell)
Irvin McDowell was a Union Army officer and early Civil War commander best known for leading Federal forces at the First Battle of Bull Run.
 E1036943 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: brigadier general (Irvin McDowell) | Statement: [Union Army of Northeastern Virginia, commanderRank, brigadier general (Irvin McDowell)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: brigadier general (Irvin McDowell)
Context triple: [Union Army of Northeastern Virginia, commanderRank, brigadier general (Irvin McDowell)]
  • A. Major General Andrew A. Humphreys
    Major General Andrew A. Humphreys was a Union Army officer and distinguished Civil War corps commander noted for his leadership in the Army of the Potomac.
  • B. Brigadier General Strong Vincent
    Brigadier General Strong Vincent was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War best known for his decisive leadership and mortal wounding while defending Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • C. Union Brigadier General Francis Channing Barlow
    Union Brigadier General Francis Channing Barlow was a young, hard-fighting Civil War officer known for his aggressive leadership in major battles such as Antietam and Gettysburg.
  • D. Brigadier General Daniel Tyler
    Brigadier General Daniel Tyler was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, known for his early-war command roles and involvement in key Eastern Theater operations.
  • E. Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed
    Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed was a U.S. Army officer and Civil War brigadier general who was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • 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: brigadier general (Irvin McDowell)
Triple: [Union Army of Northeastern Virginia, commanderRank, brigadier general (Irvin McDowell)]
Generated description
Irvin McDowell was a Union Army officer and early Civil War commander best known for leading Federal forces at the First Battle of Bull Run.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: brigadier general (Irvin McDowell)
Target entity description: Irvin McDowell was a Union Army officer and early Civil War commander best known for leading Federal forces at the First Battle of Bull Run.
  • A. Major General Andrew A. Humphreys
    Major General Andrew A. Humphreys was a Union Army officer and distinguished Civil War corps commander noted for his leadership in the Army of the Potomac.
  • B. Brigadier General Strong Vincent
    Brigadier General Strong Vincent was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War best known for his decisive leadership and mortal wounding while defending Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • C. Union Brigadier General Francis Channing Barlow
    Union Brigadier General Francis Channing Barlow was a young, hard-fighting Civil War officer known for his aggressive leadership in major battles such as Antietam and Gettysburg.
  • D. Brigadier General Daniel Tyler
    Brigadier General Daniel Tyler was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, known for his early-war command roles and involvement in key Eastern Theater operations.
  • E. Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed
    Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed was a U.S. Army officer and Civil War brigadier general who was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • 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_69d806b7bbac8190b85278c87fa7aff3 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69da628c71ac81908cfa36342077766e completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7267e9d608190b36f58a92d4a9964 completed May 3, 2026, 10:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f72807bae081909f7e66657c03b841 completed May 3, 2026, 10:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f728afff888190a82e3d4f4fad717b completed May 3, 2026, 10:51 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:32 p.m.