Triple

T3153241
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Paine E65924 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The American Crisis
The American Crisis is a series of pamphlets by Thomas Paine that powerfully rallied American colonists to persevere during the Revolutionary War, beginning with the famous line “These are the times that try men’s souls.”
E330882 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: The American Crisis | Statement: [Thomas Paine, notableWork, The American Crisis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The American Crisis
Context triple: [Thomas Paine, notableWork, The American Crisis]
  • A. Conceived in Liberty
    Conceived in Liberty is a multi-volume historical work by economist and libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard that presents a revisionist, pro-liberty account of early American history up through the Constitution.
  • B. Letters to a Nobleman on the Conduct of the War in the Middle Colonies
    "Letters to a Nobleman on the Conduct of the War in the Middle Colonies" is a political and military critique of British strategy in the American Revolutionary War written by Loyalist statesman Joseph Galloway.
  • C. Washington's winter encampment 1779–1780
    Washington's winter encampment 1779–1780 was the Continental Army’s harsh Revolutionary War winter quarters at Morristown, New Jersey, where George Washington directed military operations while headquartered at the Ford Mansion.
  • D. Penman of the Revolution
    Penman of the Revolution is the honorific given to John Dickinson, a Founding Father renowned for his influential pre-Revolutionary political writings that shaped American colonial resistance to British rule.
  • E. A Soldier’s Declaration
    A Soldier’s Declaration is a famous 1917 statement by British war poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon condemning the continuation of World War I as unjust and needlessly destructive.
  • 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: The American Crisis
Triple: [Thomas Paine, notableWork, The American Crisis]
Generated description
The American Crisis is a series of pamphlets by Thomas Paine that powerfully rallied American colonists to persevere during the Revolutionary War, beginning with the famous line “These are the times that try men’s souls.”
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The American Crisis
Target entity description: The American Crisis is a series of pamphlets by Thomas Paine that powerfully rallied American colonists to persevere during the Revolutionary War, beginning with the famous line “These are the times that try men’s souls.”
  • A. Conceived in Liberty
    Conceived in Liberty is a multi-volume historical work by economist and libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard that presents a revisionist, pro-liberty account of early American history up through the Constitution.
  • B. Letters to a Nobleman on the Conduct of the War in the Middle Colonies
    "Letters to a Nobleman on the Conduct of the War in the Middle Colonies" is a political and military critique of British strategy in the American Revolutionary War written by Loyalist statesman Joseph Galloway.
  • C. Washington's winter encampment 1779–1780
    Washington's winter encampment 1779–1780 was the Continental Army’s harsh Revolutionary War winter quarters at Morristown, New Jersey, where George Washington directed military operations while headquartered at the Ford Mansion.
  • D. Penman of the Revolution
    Penman of the Revolution is the honorific given to John Dickinson, a Founding Father renowned for his influential pre-Revolutionary political writings that shaped American colonial resistance to British rule.
  • E. A Soldier’s Declaration
    A Soldier’s Declaration is a famous 1917 statement by British war poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon condemning the continuation of World War I as unjust and needlessly destructive.
  • 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_69ad8584485081909ed529e890cadc4a completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada5c3d6d481908c296e9e09c07f6f completed March 8, 2026, 4:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b2250088c48190a226031afda38d87 completed March 12, 2026, 2:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b2258a16a8819080f4bac7a63fa145 completed March 12, 2026, 2:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b225e072908190bcdde199b1ec2f4c completed March 12, 2026, 2:33 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:05 p.m.