Triple

T17078859
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gorgas E414418 entity
Predicate notableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Josiah Gorgas E419134 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Josiah Gorgas | Statement: [Gorgas, notableBearer, Josiah Gorgas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Josiah Gorgas
Context triple: [Gorgas, notableBearer, Josiah Gorgas]
  • A. Josiah Gorgas chosen
    Josiah Gorgas was a Confederate general and chief of ordnance during the American Civil War, instrumental in organizing and supplying the Confederate war effort.
  • B. Amelia Gayle Gorgas
    Amelia Gayle Gorgas was an American librarian and hospital matron who served for decades at the University of Alabama, where the main library is named in her honor.
  • C. William C. Gorgas
    William C. Gorgas was a prominent American physician and U.S. Army surgeon general best known for his pioneering work in controlling mosquito-borne diseases like yellow fever and malaria, which enabled large-scale projects such as the construction of the Panama Canal.
  • D. Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett
    Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett is a cautious yet determined Providence physician who becomes the central investigator confronting occult horrors in H. P. Lovecraft’s novel "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward."
  • E. Walter Reed
    Walter Reed was an American film and television character actor active from the 1930s to the 1960s, known for his supporting roles in numerous Westerns and adventure films.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69d886cef44c8190ba56c44b4e863e64 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3dbe0e9cc8190b6c4b6065b474d1d completed April 18, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0139f7e6408190978c940c6e641d47 completed May 11, 2026, 2:07 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:34 a.m.