Triple
T23167306
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Department of Virginia and North Carolina |
E578745
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entity |
| Predicate | participatedIn |
P149
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FINISHED |
| Object | Siege of Petersburg |
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NE NERFINISHED |
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: Siege of Petersburg | Statement: [Department of Virginia and North Carolina, participatedIn, Siege of Petersburg]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Siege of Petersburg Context triple: [Department of Virginia and North Carolina, participatedIn, Siege of Petersburg]
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A.
Siege of Petersburg
chosen
The Siege of Petersburg was a prolonged series of trench warfare operations in 1864–1865 around Petersburg, Virginia, whose eventual Union victory cut off Confederate supply lines and led directly to the fall of Richmond and the end of the American Civil War.
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B.
Second Battle of Petersburg
The Second Battle of Petersburg was a key June 1864 American Civil War clash in Virginia in which failed Union assaults against Confederate defenses led directly to the prolonged Siege of Petersburg.
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C.
Third Battle of Petersburg
The Third Battle of Petersburg was the decisive Union assault in April 1865 that broke Confederate defenses around Petersburg, leading directly to the fall of Richmond and the endgame of the American Civil War.
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D.
Fourth Battle of Petersburg
The Fourth Battle of Petersburg was a late March 1865 Union offensive during the American Civil War that helped break Confederate defensive lines around Petersburg, Virginia, paving the way for the fall of Richmond and the war’s end.
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E.
Richmond–Petersburg Campaign
The Richmond–Petersburg Campaign was a prolonged series of American Civil War battles in 1864–1865 in which Union forces sought to cut off and capture the Confederate strongholds of Richmond and Petersburg, leading directly to the collapse of the Confederacy.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69e245fc75348190a0288401044c8af8 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f18f2d51288190af0d5747090d8e5d |
completed | April 29, 2026, 4:55 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:03 p.m.