Triple

T16308752
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Union VIII Corps E395990 entity
Predicate formedFrom P402 FINISHED
Object Middle Department troops
Middle Department troops were Union Army forces stationed in the Middle Department during the American Civil War, later consolidated into the VIII Corps.
E1205100 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: Middle Department troops | Statement: [Union VIII Corps, formedFrom, Middle Department troops]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Middle Department troops
Context triple: [Union VIII Corps, formedFrom, Middle Department troops]
  • A. Infantry Branch
    The Infantry Branch is the United States Army’s primary ground combat arm, responsible for engaging the enemy directly through close-quarters and maneuver warfare.
  • B. Labour Corps
    The Labour Corps was a British Army support formation in World War I composed largely of men unfit for front-line combat, tasked with manual and logistical work such as construction, transport, and battlefield clearance.
  • C. Int Corps
    Int Corps is the commonly used abbreviation for the British Army’s Intelligence Corps, the unit responsible for military intelligence and security.
  • D. United States Army regulars
    The United States Army regulars were the professional, full-time soldiers of the U.S. Army who formed the core federal military force engaged in frontier conflicts and other 19th-century campaigns.
  • E. Headquarters Regiment
    Headquarters Regiment is a key command and control and logistics support unit within the U.S. Marine Corps’ 3rd Marine Logistics Group.
  • 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: Middle Department troops
Triple: [Union VIII Corps, formedFrom, Middle Department troops]
Generated description
Middle Department troops were Union Army forces stationed in the Middle Department during the American Civil War, later consolidated into the VIII Corps.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Middle Department troops
Target entity description: Middle Department troops were Union Army forces stationed in the Middle Department during the American Civil War, later consolidated into the VIII Corps.
  • A. Infantry Branch
    The Infantry Branch is the United States Army’s primary ground combat arm, responsible for engaging the enemy directly through close-quarters and maneuver warfare.
  • B. Labour Corps
    The Labour Corps was a British Army support formation in World War I composed largely of men unfit for front-line combat, tasked with manual and logistical work such as construction, transport, and battlefield clearance.
  • C. Int Corps
    Int Corps is the commonly used abbreviation for the British Army’s Intelligence Corps, the unit responsible for military intelligence and security.
  • D. United States Army regulars
    The United States Army regulars were the professional, full-time soldiers of the U.S. Army who formed the core federal military force engaged in frontier conflicts and other 19th-century campaigns.
  • E. Headquarters Regiment
    Headquarters Regiment is a key command and control and logistics support unit within the U.S. Marine Corps’ 3rd Marine Logistics Group.
  • 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_69d87f23bb088190a16fbb91a1957ea5 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e288d776808190a7c9918477f07216 completed April 17, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a001fa517908190a29caa0156b1d1cd completed May 10, 2026, 6:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00204bc3dc8190af075707f8989e3a completed May 10, 2026, 6:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00215cc7a48190a5c4219d15749aa2 completed May 10, 2026, 6:10 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:06 a.m.