Triple

T3992838
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Berdan rifle E87031 entity
Predicate designer P184 FINISHED
Object Hiram Berdan
Hiram Berdan was a 19th-century American military officer, engineer, and inventor best known for creating innovative rifle designs and leading elite sharpshooter units during the American Civil War.
E404170 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: Hiram Berdan | Statement: [Berdan rifle, designer, Hiram Berdan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hiram Berdan
Context triple: [Berdan rifle, designer, Hiram Berdan]
  • A. John E. Wool
    John E. Wool was a prominent 19th-century United States Army officer who served with distinction in the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, and the early stages of the Civil War.
  • B. Alvan C. Gillem
    Alvan C. Gillem was a United States Army officer and Civil War veteran who later led federal troops in campaigns against Native American groups in the West.
  • C. Henry Gage
    Henry Gage was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 20th governor of California from 1899 to 1903.
  • D. Philip Kearny
    Philip Kearny was a prominent United States Army officer and Union general during the American Civil War, renowned for his aggressive leadership and battlefield bravery.
  • E. Colonel Maxcy Gregg
    Colonel Maxcy Gregg was a Confederate officer and brigade commander from South Carolina who fought in several major battles of the American Civil War before being mortally wounded at Fredericksburg.
  • 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: Hiram Berdan
Triple: [Berdan rifle, designer, Hiram Berdan]
Generated description
Hiram Berdan was a 19th-century American military officer, engineer, and inventor best known for creating innovative rifle designs and leading elite sharpshooter units during the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hiram Berdan
Target entity description: Hiram Berdan was a 19th-century American military officer, engineer, and inventor best known for creating innovative rifle designs and leading elite sharpshooter units during the American Civil War.
  • A. John E. Wool
    John E. Wool was a prominent 19th-century United States Army officer who served with distinction in the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, and the early stages of the Civil War.
  • B. Alvan C. Gillem
    Alvan C. Gillem was a United States Army officer and Civil War veteran who later led federal troops in campaigns against Native American groups in the West.
  • C. Henry Gage
    Henry Gage was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 20th governor of California from 1899 to 1903.
  • D. Philip Kearny
    Philip Kearny was a prominent United States Army officer and Union general during the American Civil War, renowned for his aggressive leadership and battlefield bravery.
  • E. Colonel Maxcy Gregg
    Colonel Maxcy Gregg was a Confederate officer and brigade commander from South Carolina who fought in several major battles of the American Civil War before being mortally wounded at Fredericksburg.
  • 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_69aed94118148190975e6aa4e554cde9 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aefa1c476c819094063f654aa015c4 completed March 9, 2026, 4:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5403970e08190bb491048b1bd7b16 completed March 14, 2026, 11:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b54112e3788190800e295a745c4689 completed March 14, 2026, 11:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b541808d548190987ad1538c647664 completed March 14, 2026, 11:07 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:33 p.m.