Triple

T1351658
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Ia Drang E28894 entity
Predicate describedIn P519 FINISHED
Object We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young is a non-fiction book by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway that recounts their firsthand experiences and leadership during one of the first major battles between U.S. forces and the North Vietnamese Army in the Vietnam War.
E153844 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: We Were Soldiers Once... and Young | Statement: [Battle of Ia Drang, describedIn, We Were Soldiers Once... and Young]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
Context triple: [Battle of Ia Drang, describedIn, We Were Soldiers Once... and Young]
  • A. A Soldier's Story
    A Soldier's Story is a 1984 American drama film adapted from Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize–winning play, exploring racism and justice within a segregated Black army unit during World War II.
  • B. The American Soldier
    The American Soldier is a symbolic collective representing U.S. military personnel, recognized for their service and impact, including being honored as Time magazine's Person of the Year.
  • C. One of Ours
    One of Ours is a Pulitzer Prize–winning 1922 novel by Willa Cather that follows a young Nebraskan man's search for purpose culminating in his experiences as a soldier in World War I.
  • D. No Time for Sergeants
    No Time for Sergeants is a 1950s comedic story, best known as a novel, Broadway play, and film about a naive country boy in the U.S. Air Force, that became a classic of American military humor.
  • E. Cross of Sacrifice
    The Cross of Sacrifice is a Commonwealth war memorial design featuring a tall stone cross with a bronze sword, erected in military cemeteries to honor fallen service members.
  • 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: We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
Triple: [Battle of Ia Drang, describedIn, We Were Soldiers Once... and Young]
Generated description
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young is a non-fiction book by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway that recounts their firsthand experiences and leadership during one of the first major battles between U.S. forces and the North Vietnamese Army in the Vietnam War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
Target entity description: We Were Soldiers Once... and Young is a non-fiction book by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway that recounts their firsthand experiences and leadership during one of the first major battles between U.S. forces and the North Vietnamese Army in the Vietnam War.
  • A. A Soldier's Story
    A Soldier's Story is a 1984 American drama film adapted from Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize–winning play, exploring racism and justice within a segregated Black army unit during World War II.
  • B. The American Soldier
    The American Soldier is a symbolic collective representing U.S. military personnel, recognized for their service and impact, including being honored as Time magazine's Person of the Year.
  • C. One of Ours
    One of Ours is a Pulitzer Prize–winning 1922 novel by Willa Cather that follows a young Nebraskan man's search for purpose culminating in his experiences as a soldier in World War I.
  • D. No Time for Sergeants
    No Time for Sergeants is a 1950s comedic story, best known as a novel, Broadway play, and film about a naive country boy in the U.S. Air Force, that became a classic of American military humor.
  • E. Cross of Sacrifice
    The Cross of Sacrifice is a Commonwealth war memorial design featuring a tall stone cross with a bronze sword, erected in military cemeteries to honor fallen service members.
  • 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_69a498571d248190a0ac9eb02d97097f completed March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c26b1b4881908ae4b1b2c9b268a0 completed March 1, 2026, 10:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acc63eef908190aef058396f63a5a4 completed March 8, 2026, 12:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acc6dd15a481908cf870c87d469bc9 completed March 8, 2026, 12:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acc8072bb08190b1b7fb19fc2c0efc completed March 8, 2026, 12:51 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:56 p.m.