Triple

T2273046
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Varina Howell Davis E50703 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Jefferson Davis, Ex-President of the Confederate States of America: A Memoir
"Jefferson Davis, Ex-President of the Confederate States of America: A Memoir" is a biographical work by Varina Howell Davis that recounts the life, political career, and Confederate leadership of her husband, Jefferson Davis.
E250866 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: Jefferson Davis, Ex-President of the Confederate States of America: A Memoir | Statement: [Varina Howell Davis, notableWork, Jefferson Davis, Ex-President of the Confederate States of America: A Memoir]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jefferson Davis, Ex-President of the Confederate States of America: A Memoir
Context triple: [Varina Howell Davis, notableWork, Jefferson Davis, Ex-President of the Confederate States of America: A Memoir]
  • A. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
    The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government is a two-volume historical and autobiographical account in which former Confederate president Jefferson Davis defends and explains the origins, conduct, and collapse of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
  • B. Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
    Memoirs of General William T. Sherman is the autobiographical account of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s life and military career, particularly his campaigns during the American Civil War.
  • C. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
    Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant is the autobiographical work of the 18th U.S. president and Civil War general, renowned for its clear prose, candid reflections, and significant historical insight into the war and his life.
  • D. Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan
    Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan is the autobiographical account of Union General Philip H. Sheridan’s military career and experiences during the American Civil War and Reconstruction.
  • E. Lost Cause of the Confederacy
    The Lost Cause of the Confederacy is a post–Civil War ideological movement that romanticizes the Confederate cause, downplays slavery’s central role, and portrays the South’s defeat as honorable and inevitable.
  • 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: Jefferson Davis, Ex-President of the Confederate States of America: A Memoir
Triple: [Varina Howell Davis, notableWork, Jefferson Davis, Ex-President of the Confederate States of America: A Memoir]
Generated description
"Jefferson Davis, Ex-President of the Confederate States of America: A Memoir" is a biographical work by Varina Howell Davis that recounts the life, political career, and Confederate leadership of her husband, Jefferson Davis.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jefferson Davis, Ex-President of the Confederate States of America: A Memoir
Target entity description: "Jefferson Davis, Ex-President of the Confederate States of America: A Memoir" is a biographical work by Varina Howell Davis that recounts the life, political career, and Confederate leadership of her husband, Jefferson Davis.
  • A. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
    The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government is a two-volume historical and autobiographical account in which former Confederate president Jefferson Davis defends and explains the origins, conduct, and collapse of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
  • B. Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
    Memoirs of General William T. Sherman is the autobiographical account of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s life and military career, particularly his campaigns during the American Civil War.
  • C. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
    Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant is the autobiographical work of the 18th U.S. president and Civil War general, renowned for its clear prose, candid reflections, and significant historical insight into the war and his life.
  • D. Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan
    Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan is the autobiographical account of Union General Philip H. Sheridan’s military career and experiences during the American Civil War and Reconstruction.
  • E. Lost Cause of the Confederacy
    The Lost Cause of the Confederacy is a post–Civil War ideological movement that romanticizes the Confederate cause, downplays slavery’s central role, and portrays the South’s defeat as honorable and inevitable.
  • 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_69a88b05910c8190a9a2b1ff230c85f9 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc1e872448190a1d6c6071b2a294b completed March 7, 2026, 6:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae71ddc66c81909525394a8b2bb4e0 completed March 9, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae75ba1a988190ba59d3ce5e5c39a8 completed March 9, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae76246f6c81909a15262d2c4ea975 completed March 9, 2026, 7:26 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:48 p.m.