Triple

T16977297
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Hampton Roads E411845 entity
Predicate commanderUnion P1197 FINISHED
Object Louis M. Goldsborough
Louis M. Goldsborough was a United States Navy admiral who played a prominent role in early Civil War naval operations, including overseeing Union naval forces during key coastal and blockade campaigns.
E1244280 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: Louis M. Goldsborough | Statement: [Battle of Hampton Roads, commanderUnion, Louis M. Goldsborough]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Louis M. Goldsborough
Context triple: [Battle of Hampton Roads, commanderUnion, Louis M. Goldsborough]
  • A. Charles E. Calhoun
    Charles E. Calhoun was the songwriting pseudonym of Jesse Stone, an influential American rhythm and blues composer and arranger who helped shape early rock and roll.
  • B. George A. McDaniel
    George A. McDaniel was an early 20th-century American film actor who appeared in silent-era productions.
  • C. Edmund J. Davis
    Edmund J. Davis was a controversial Reconstruction-era Republican who served as governor of Texas from 1870 to 1874 and played a key role in reshaping the state's post–Civil War government.
  • D. Persifor F. Smith
    Persifor F. Smith was a 19th-century United States Army officer who served in the Mexican–American War and later became a key military administrator in newly acquired western territories.
  • E. Hugh W. Mercer
    Hugh W. Mercer was a prominent 19th-century Savannah figure and Confederate officer, best known today as the namesake of the historic Mercer House featured in the book and film "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."
  • 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: Louis M. Goldsborough
Triple: [Battle of Hampton Roads, commanderUnion, Louis M. Goldsborough]
Generated description
Louis M. Goldsborough was a United States Navy admiral who played a prominent role in early Civil War naval operations, including overseeing Union naval forces during key coastal and blockade campaigns.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Louis M. Goldsborough
Target entity description: Louis M. Goldsborough was a United States Navy admiral who played a prominent role in early Civil War naval operations, including overseeing Union naval forces during key coastal and blockade campaigns.
  • A. Charles E. Calhoun
    Charles E. Calhoun was the songwriting pseudonym of Jesse Stone, an influential American rhythm and blues composer and arranger who helped shape early rock and roll.
  • B. George A. McDaniel
    George A. McDaniel was an early 20th-century American film actor who appeared in silent-era productions.
  • C. Edmund J. Davis
    Edmund J. Davis was a controversial Reconstruction-era Republican who served as governor of Texas from 1870 to 1874 and played a key role in reshaping the state's post–Civil War government.
  • D. Persifor F. Smith
    Persifor F. Smith was a 19th-century United States Army officer who served in the Mexican–American War and later became a key military administrator in newly acquired western territories.
  • E. Hugh W. Mercer
    Hugh W. Mercer was a prominent 19th-century Savannah figure and Confederate officer, best known today as the namesake of the historic Mercer House featured in the book and film "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."
  • 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_69d886ca8f348190812768ea8d5055ce completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3d184f2cc81908ac629c8f87696f8 completed April 18, 2026, 6:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00dc0d437c81908f003a10b798998a completed May 10, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0114d33cac819083d8e542ea5bc274 completed May 10, 2026, 11:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0115c583608190bf07ac205399f253 completed May 10, 2026, 11:33 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.