Triple

T13909743
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edmund Kirby Smith E334455 entity
Predicate hadSibling P112250 FINISHED
Object Ephraim Kirby Smith
Ephraim Kirby Smith was a 19th-century American military officer and the brother of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith.
E1072053 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Ephraim Kirby Smith | Statement: [Edmund Kirby Smith, hadSibling, Ephraim Kirby Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ephraim Kirby Smith
Context triple: [Edmund Kirby Smith, hadSibling, Ephraim Kirby Smith]
  • A. Lucius E. Polk
    Lucius E. Polk was a 19th-century American Confederate officer, planter, and politician from Tennessee, and a member of the prominent Polk family.
  • B. Edmund Kirby Smith
    Edmund Kirby Smith was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War who commanded the Trans-Mississippi Department and was one of the last Confederate leaders to surrender.
  • C. Sterling Price
    Sterling Price was a prominent Confederate major general and former Missouri governor who led Southern forces in the Trans-Mississippi Theater during the American Civil War.
  • D. Leonidas Polk
    Leonidas Polk was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who was also an Episcopal bishop, earning him the nickname "the Fighting Bishop."
  • E. Frederick Quitman
    Frederick Quitman was the son of prominent American politician and Mexican–American War general John A. Quitman.
  • 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: Ephraim Kirby Smith
Triple: [Edmund Kirby Smith, hadSibling, Ephraim Kirby Smith]
Generated description
Ephraim Kirby Smith was a 19th-century American military officer and the brother of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ephraim Kirby Smith
Target entity description: Ephraim Kirby Smith was a 19th-century American military officer and the brother of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith.
  • A. Lucius E. Polk
    Lucius E. Polk was a 19th-century American Confederate officer, planter, and politician from Tennessee, and a member of the prominent Polk family.
  • B. Edmund Kirby Smith
    Edmund Kirby Smith was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War who commanded the Trans-Mississippi Department and was one of the last Confederate leaders to surrender.
  • C. Sterling Price
    Sterling Price was a prominent Confederate major general and former Missouri governor who led Southern forces in the Trans-Mississippi Theater during the American Civil War.
  • D. Leonidas Polk
    Leonidas Polk was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who was also an Episcopal bishop, earning him the nickname "the Fighting Bishop."
  • E. Frederick Quitman
    Frederick Quitman was the son of prominent American politician and Mexican–American War general John A. Quitman.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: hadSibling
Context triple: [Edmund Kirby Smith, hadSibling, Ephraim Kirby Smith]
  • A. hadChildren
    Indicates that the subject person is a parent of one or more children.
  • B. hasTwin
    Indicates that one entity is a twin of another, sharing the same birth event or time with a sibling.
  • C. hasSisters
    Indicates that one entity has one or more female siblings in relation to another entity.
  • D. hasHalfSibling
    Indicates that two individuals share exactly one biological parent in common, making them half-siblings.
  • E. hasSister
    Indicates that one entity is the sister of another entity.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (7 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_69d81c5eaa9c819083b1ff8689179565 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de2721ec6c8190888f4a9d004eb8e0 completed April 14, 2026, 11:38 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fba1c26ba08190b19560123691fda4 completed May 6, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fba7b0b1e081909b7c1e5ffefc2cc2 completed May 6, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fba8585fb08190998d6a005dc0bd31 completed May 6, 2026, 8:45 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69de059e4ba881908554f72e889719fa completed April 14, 2026, 9:15 a.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69de239524688190a0f2408c239cfcaa completed April 14, 2026, 11:23 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:16 p.m.