Triple
T2333815
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Valley Campaign of 1862 |
E44264
|
entity |
| Predicate | opposingCommander |
P1698
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Nathaniel P. Banks
Nathaniel P. Banks was a Union major general in the American Civil War and former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and governor of Massachusetts.
|
E262047
|
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: Nathaniel P. Banks | Statement: [Valley Campaign of 1862, opposingCommander, Nathaniel P. Banks]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nathaniel P. Banks Context triple: [Valley Campaign of 1862, opposingCommander, Nathaniel P. Banks]
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A.
Benjamin F. Butler
Benjamin F. Butler was a controversial 19th-century American politician and Union Civil War general known for his aggressive Radical Republican stance and prominent role in Reconstruction-era legal and political battles.
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B.
Franklin Buchanan
Franklin Buchanan was a prominent 19th-century American naval officer who became the Confederacy’s most famous admiral, best known for commanding the ironclad CSS Virginia during the American Civil War.
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C.
William B. Waddell
William B. Waddell was a 19th-century American businessman best known as one of the founders of the Pony Express mail service.
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D.
Benjamin B. Hotchkiss
Benjamin B. Hotchkiss was a 19th-century American-born engineer and industrialist best known for founding a major armaments company in France and developing innovative artillery and machine guns.
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E.
Fairfax Grant
Fairfax Grant was a colonial-era land grant in the mid-Atlantic region that played a key role in shaping the historical boundary between Maryland and what is now West Virginia.
- 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: Nathaniel P. Banks Triple: [Valley Campaign of 1862, opposingCommander, Nathaniel P. Banks]
Generated description
Nathaniel P. Banks was a Union major general in the American Civil War and former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and governor of Massachusetts.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nathaniel P. Banks Target entity description: Nathaniel P. Banks was a Union major general in the American Civil War and former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and governor of Massachusetts.
-
A.
Benjamin F. Butler
Benjamin F. Butler was a controversial 19th-century American politician and Union Civil War general known for his aggressive Radical Republican stance and prominent role in Reconstruction-era legal and political battles.
-
B.
Franklin Buchanan
Franklin Buchanan was a prominent 19th-century American naval officer who became the Confederacy’s most famous admiral, best known for commanding the ironclad CSS Virginia during the American Civil War.
-
C.
William B. Waddell
William B. Waddell was a 19th-century American businessman best known as one of the founders of the Pony Express mail service.
-
D.
Benjamin B. Hotchkiss
Benjamin B. Hotchkiss was a 19th-century American-born engineer and industrialist best known for founding a major armaments company in France and developing innovative artillery and machine guns.
-
E.
Fairfax Grant
Fairfax Grant was a colonial-era land grant in the mid-Atlantic region that played a key role in shaping the historical boundary between Maryland and what is now West Virginia.
- 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_69a889132b488190bbb43ad4780ddd92 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abc66d7ea081908867ff494b70df1e |
completed | March 7, 2026, 6:32 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69aeb3be86dc8190af185bac9554e7d6 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 11:49 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69aeb46f882881909294a3698ead865e |
completed | March 9, 2026, 11:52 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69aeb4c715a88190b1009a2cf1d95441 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 11:53 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:51 p.m.