Triple

T1831189
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Butler’s Rangers E40763 entity
Predicate hasCommanderRank P30999 FINISHED
Object Lieutenant Colonel John Butler
Lieutenant Colonel John Butler was a Loyalist military officer in the American Revolutionary War, best known for leading the irregular frontier unit known as Butler’s Rangers.
E203860 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: Lieutenant Colonel John Butler | Statement: [Butler’s Rangers, hasCommanderRank, Lieutenant Colonel John Butler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lieutenant Colonel John Butler
Context triple: [Butler’s Rangers, hasCommanderRank, Lieutenant Colonel John Butler]
  • A. Lieutenant Colonel Frank O’Driscoll Hunter
    Lieutenant Colonel Frank O’Driscoll Hunter was a distinguished U.S. Army Air Corps officer and World War II fighter ace honored for his leadership and aerial combat achievements.
  • B. Colonel George F. James
    Colonel George F. James was a notable figure in California history whose prominence led to the town of Jamestown being named in his honor.
  • C. Major-General Sidney Kirkman
    Major-General Sidney Kirkman was a senior British Army officer of the Second World War, noted for his leadership of infantry formations in key campaigns including North Africa and Italy.
  • D. Major-General Douglas Graham
    Major-General Douglas Graham was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during key operations of the Second World War.
  • E. Colonel Alexander Bliss
    Colonel Alexander Bliss was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for requesting and preserving one of the authoritative manuscript copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
  • 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: Lieutenant Colonel John Butler
Triple: [Butler’s Rangers, hasCommanderRank, Lieutenant Colonel John Butler]
Generated description
Lieutenant Colonel John Butler was a Loyalist military officer in the American Revolutionary War, best known for leading the irregular frontier unit known as Butler’s Rangers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lieutenant Colonel John Butler
Target entity description: Lieutenant Colonel John Butler was a Loyalist military officer in the American Revolutionary War, best known for leading the irregular frontier unit known as Butler’s Rangers.
  • A. Lieutenant Colonel Frank O’Driscoll Hunter
    Lieutenant Colonel Frank O’Driscoll Hunter was a distinguished U.S. Army Air Corps officer and World War II fighter ace honored for his leadership and aerial combat achievements.
  • B. Colonel George F. James
    Colonel George F. James was a notable figure in California history whose prominence led to the town of Jamestown being named in his honor.
  • C. Major-General Sidney Kirkman
    Major-General Sidney Kirkman was a senior British Army officer of the Second World War, noted for his leadership of infantry formations in key campaigns including North Africa and Italy.
  • D. Major-General Douglas Graham
    Major-General Douglas Graham was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during key operations of the Second World War.
  • E. Colonel Alexander Bliss
    Colonel Alexander Bliss was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for requesting and preserving one of the authoritative manuscript copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
  • 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_69a8864644bc8190b2358ab897194ac1 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb022aef48190975b6d12fc6681ad completed March 7, 2026, 4:57 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adbf6f212c8190b0d182f8486d9e47 completed March 8, 2026, 6:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adc080abb88190883c35943dc7cb10 completed March 8, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adc13330888190a2b99c6fcbb97d49 completed March 8, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.