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]
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A.
Watcyn Lewis
Watcyn Lewis is the father of British actor Damian Lewis.
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B.
Griffith Jones
Griffith Jones was a Welsh actor known for his work in British film, television, and theatre during the mid-20th century.
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C.
Gresford Jones
Gresford Jones was a British Anglican bishop known for his ecclesiastical leadership in the early to mid-20th century.
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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.
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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.
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A.
Watcyn Lewis
Watcyn Lewis is the father of British actor Damian Lewis.
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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.
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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.