Triple
T15154008
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Wesley Merritt |
E362023
|
entity |
| Predicate | participantIn |
P149
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Battle of Five Forks |
E203529
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Battle of Five Forks | Statement: [Wesley Merritt, participantIn, Battle of Five Forks]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Five Forks Context triple: [Wesley Merritt, participantIn, Battle of Five Forks]
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A.
Battle of Five Forks
chosen
The Battle of Five Forks was a decisive American Civil War engagement in April 1865 in Virginia, where Union forces broke Confederate lines, leading directly to the fall of Petersburg and Richmond and the surrender at Appomattox.
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B.
Battle of Piedmont
The Battle of Piedmont was an American Civil War engagement in June 1864 in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, where Union forces under General David Hunter defeated Confederate troops, helping to open the Valley to further Union advances.
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C.
Battle of Cold Harbor
The Battle of Cold Harbor was a major and notoriously bloody 1864 Civil War engagement near Richmond, Virginia, in which Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee repelled repeated Union assaults during Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign.
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D.
Battle of Appomattox Station
The Battle of Appomattox Station was a late–Civil War engagement in April 1865 in which Union forces captured Confederate supply trains near Appomattox, hastening General Robert E. Lee’s surrender.
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E.
Battle of New Market Road
The Battle of New Market Road, also known as the Battle of Frayser’s Farm, was an American Civil War engagement in the 1862 Peninsula Campaign where Union and Confederate forces clashed southwest of Richmond, Virginia.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d85a0759908190b8a051d2e2a1cbe6 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e0060b0cd08190afad14cffcc7d93f |
completed | April 15, 2026, 9:41 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fec88419108190860319a9bcab1eef |
completed | May 9, 2026, 5:39 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:08 a.m.