Triple

T16977300
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Hampton Roads E411845 entity
Predicate commanderConfederate P26186 FINISHED
Object Catesby ap Roger Jones
Catesby ap Roger Jones was a Confederate naval officer best known for commanding the ironclad CSS Virginia during its historic clash with the USS Monitor in the American Civil War.
E1243611 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: Catesby ap Roger Jones | Statement: [Battle of Hampton Roads, commanderConfederate, Catesby ap Roger Jones]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Catesby ap Roger Jones
Context triple: [Battle of Hampton Roads, commanderConfederate, Catesby ap Roger Jones]
  • A. Watcyn Lewis
    Watcyn Lewis is the father of British actor Damian Lewis.
  • B. Griffith Jones
    Griffith Jones was a Welsh actor known for his work in British film, television, and theatre during the mid-20th century.
  • C. Gresford Jones
    Gresford Jones was a British Anglican bishop known for his ecclesiastical leadership in the early to mid-20th century.
  • D. William Delmé-Evans
    William Delmé-Evans was a 20th-century British distillery designer and engineer best known for creating and modernizing several notable Scotch whisky distilleries.
  • E. John Rowlands
    John Rowlands, better known as Henry Morton Stanley, was a 19th-century Welsh-American explorer and journalist famed for his expeditions in central Africa and the phrase “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”
  • 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: Catesby ap Roger Jones
Triple: [Battle of Hampton Roads, commanderConfederate, Catesby ap Roger Jones]
Generated description
Catesby ap Roger Jones was a Confederate naval officer best known for commanding the ironclad CSS Virginia during its historic clash with the USS Monitor in the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Catesby ap Roger Jones
Target entity description: Catesby ap Roger Jones was a Confederate naval officer best known for commanding the ironclad CSS Virginia during its historic clash with the USS Monitor in the American Civil War.
  • A. Watcyn Lewis
    Watcyn Lewis is the father of British actor Damian Lewis.
  • B. Griffith Jones
    Griffith Jones was a Welsh actor known for his work in British film, television, and theatre during the mid-20th century.
  • C. Gresford Jones
    Gresford Jones was a British Anglican bishop known for his ecclesiastical leadership in the early to mid-20th century.
  • D. William Delmé-Evans
    William Delmé-Evans was a 20th-century British distillery designer and engineer best known for creating and modernizing several notable Scotch whisky distilleries.
  • E. John Rowlands
    John Rowlands, better known as Henry Morton Stanley, was a 19th-century Welsh-American explorer and journalist famed for his expeditions in central Africa and the phrase “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”
  • 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_6a00d4755ffc8190a5c861462e33d526 completed May 10, 2026, 6:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00d687aed88190915e20e8fa517a2b completed May 10, 2026, 7:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00d6ecbf60819095e3f8418a84d485 completed May 10, 2026, 7:05 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.