Triple

T16634782
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hiram Berdan E404170 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Berdan Sharpshooters
Berdan Sharpshooters were elite Union Army rifle units in the American Civil War, renowned for their marksmanship and specialized skirmishing tactics.
E1224153 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: Berdan Sharpshooters | Statement: [Hiram Berdan, notableWork, Berdan Sharpshooters]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Berdan Sharpshooters
Context triple: [Hiram Berdan, notableWork, Berdan Sharpshooters]
  • A. Rugged Brigade
    Rugged Brigade is the nickname of the U.S. Army’s 36th Engineer Brigade, a combat engineer formation known for providing construction, mobility, and support operations in diverse and challenging environments.
  • B. Mississippi Rifles
    The Mississippi Rifles were a famed volunteer regiment from Mississippi that gained prominence for their role in the Mexican–American War under the leadership of Jefferson Davis.
  • C. The Rifles
    The Rifles is a large infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 2007, known for its light role, rifleman traditions, and deployments in modern conflicts such as Iraq and Afghanistan.
  • D. The Rifles
    The Rifles is a novel by William T. Vollmann that forms part of his ambitious Seven Dreams series exploring the history and consequences of European colonization in North America.
  • E. Riflemen's Association
    The Riflemen's Association was a Polish paramilitary and patriotic organization that trained civilians in military skills and helped lay the groundwork for Poland’s independence efforts in the early 20th century.
  • 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: Berdan Sharpshooters
Triple: [Hiram Berdan, notableWork, Berdan Sharpshooters]
Generated description
Berdan Sharpshooters were elite Union Army rifle units in the American Civil War, renowned for their marksmanship and specialized skirmishing tactics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Berdan Sharpshooters
Target entity description: Berdan Sharpshooters were elite Union Army rifle units in the American Civil War, renowned for their marksmanship and specialized skirmishing tactics.
  • A. Rugged Brigade
    Rugged Brigade is the nickname of the U.S. Army’s 36th Engineer Brigade, a combat engineer formation known for providing construction, mobility, and support operations in diverse and challenging environments.
  • B. Mississippi Rifles
    The Mississippi Rifles were a famed volunteer regiment from Mississippi that gained prominence for their role in the Mexican–American War under the leadership of Jefferson Davis.
  • C. The Rifles
    The Rifles is a large infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 2007, known for its light role, rifleman traditions, and deployments in modern conflicts such as Iraq and Afghanistan.
  • D. The Rifles
    The Rifles is a novel by William T. Vollmann that forms part of his ambitious Seven Dreams series exploring the history and consequences of European colonization in North America.
  • E. Riflemen's Association
    The Riflemen's Association was a Polish paramilitary and patriotic organization that trained civilians in military skills and helped lay the groundwork for Poland’s independence efforts in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69d8838a41f08190b0c3f79c47df5078 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e378e8a76c8190bf08e6f6dec63c50 completed April 18, 2026, 12:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a007dc05bd881909c6b2e0d95622aa1 completed May 10, 2026, 12:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a007e1909b88190ad2587b5d5433e2e completed May 10, 2026, 12:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a007eda229c8190a6b99400141cf0b6 completed May 10, 2026, 12:49 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:17 a.m.