Triple

T1616964
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British capture of Savannah E34740 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Robert Howe
Robert Howe was a Continental Army general from North Carolina who played a significant role in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War.
E185524 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: Robert Howe | Statement: [British capture of Savannah, commander, Robert Howe]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Howe
Context triple: [British capture of Savannah, commander, Robert Howe]
  • A. Marinus Willett
    Marinus Willett was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New York, known for his active role in colonial resistance and later service as mayor of New York City.
  • B. Thomas Preston
    Thomas Preston was a 17th-century Irish soldier and nobleman who became a leading general of the Confederate Catholic forces during the Irish Confederate Wars.
  • C. Henry Laurens
    Henry Laurens was an American merchant, slave trader, and statesman from South Carolina who became a prominent Revolutionary leader and diplomat, including serving as a U.S. envoy to the Netherlands and being imprisoned in the Tower of London.
  • D. Peleg Wadsworth
    Peleg Wadsworth was an American Revolutionary War general and prominent New England figure whose family home later became associated with his grandson, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
  • E. Robert Treat Paine
    Robert Treat Paine was an American Founding Father and lawyer best known as a signer of the Declaration of Independence from Massachusetts.
  • 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: Robert Howe
Triple: [British capture of Savannah, commander, Robert Howe]
Generated description
Robert Howe was a Continental Army general from North Carolina who played a significant role in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Howe
Target entity description: Robert Howe was a Continental Army general from North Carolina who played a significant role in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War.
  • A. Marinus Willett
    Marinus Willett was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New York, known for his active role in colonial resistance and later service as mayor of New York City.
  • B. Thomas Preston
    Thomas Preston was a 17th-century Irish soldier and nobleman who became a leading general of the Confederate Catholic forces during the Irish Confederate Wars.
  • C. Henry Laurens
    Henry Laurens was an American merchant, slave trader, and statesman from South Carolina who became a prominent Revolutionary leader and diplomat, including serving as a U.S. envoy to the Netherlands and being imprisoned in the Tower of London.
  • D. Peleg Wadsworth
    Peleg Wadsworth was an American Revolutionary War general and prominent New England figure whose family home later became associated with his grandson, poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
  • E. Robert Treat Paine
    Robert Treat Paine was an American Founding Father and lawyer best known as a signer of the Declaration of Independence from Massachusetts.
  • 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_69a885ffc5ec819091afa325d5f9611c completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a909abbec081908f95547471530ad5 completed March 5, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad60903f94819095dc90d6ce959017 completed March 8, 2026, 11:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad6148d5ac819096ee1a3e97331ed2 completed March 8, 2026, 11:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad62028a448190a0c3f0dadae6a741 completed March 8, 2026, 11:48 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:28 p.m.