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]
  • 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
  • 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.