Triple

T4195132
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Groton Heights E89130 entity
Predicate commandedByAmerican P54290 FINISHED
Object Colonel William Ledyard
Colonel William Ledyard was an American Revolutionary War officer best known for his leadership and death while defending Fort Griswold during the British attack on Groton Heights in 1781.
E420356 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Colonel William Ledyard | Statement: [Battle of Groton Heights, commandedByAmerican, Colonel William Ledyard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel William Ledyard
Context triple: [Battle of Groton Heights, commandedByAmerican, Colonel William Ledyard]
  • A. Colonel John Quincy
    Colonel John Quincy was an American colonial military officer and prominent Massachusetts politician whose legacy includes being the namesake of both the city of Quincy and President John Quincy Adams.
  • B. Horatio Gates
    Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
  • C. Colonel Alexander Bliss
    Colonel Alexander Bliss was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for requesting and preserving one of the authoritative manuscript copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
  • D. Captain Thomas Lathrop
    Captain Thomas Lathrop was a colonial militia officer in 17th-century Massachusetts, best known for leading and losing his company in the devastating ambush later called the Battle of Bloody Brook during King Philip’s War.
  • 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: Colonel William Ledyard
Triple: [Battle of Groton Heights, commandedByAmerican, Colonel William Ledyard]
Generated description
Colonel William Ledyard was an American Revolutionary War officer best known for his leadership and death while defending Fort Griswold during the British attack on Groton Heights in 1781.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel William Ledyard
Target entity description: Colonel William Ledyard was an American Revolutionary War officer best known for his leadership and death while defending Fort Griswold during the British attack on Groton Heights in 1781.
  • A. Colonel John Quincy
    Colonel John Quincy was an American colonial military officer and prominent Massachusetts politician whose legacy includes being the namesake of both the city of Quincy and President John Quincy Adams.
  • B. Horatio Gates
    Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
  • C. Colonel Alexander Bliss
    Colonel Alexander Bliss was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for requesting and preserving one of the authoritative manuscript copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
  • D. Captain Thomas Lathrop
    Captain Thomas Lathrop was a colonial militia officer in 17th-century Massachusetts, best known for leading and losing his company in the devastating ambush later called the Battle of Bloody Brook during King Philip’s War.
  • 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
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: commandedByAmerican
Context triple: [Battle of Groton Heights, commandedByAmerican, Colonel William Ledyard]
  • A. commandedBy
    Indicates that one entity holds authoritative control or issues orders over another entity.
  • B. commandedByFrom
    Indicates that an entity is under the authority or control of another entity originating from a specified source or location.
  • C. commandedIn
    Indicates that one entity held a position of command or leadership within a specified context, such as a battle, operation, or organization.
  • D. commandedTo
    Indicates that one entity has issued an order or directive for another entity to perform a specific action or fulfill a particular duty.
  • E. commanderUnitedStates
    Indicates that one entity serves as the commander of a United States military or governmental unit, mission, or operation.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (7 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_69aed9569a4481908b6c1fcec2a11e21 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af035e87148190a0f0bf48b813ffaa completed March 9, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b58a0d7fa88190a2c830e298542068 completed March 14, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b58a9497b88190a46afd8b1996fed9 completed March 14, 2026, 4:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b58b26e4208190b4ec30a3b635194b completed March 14, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69af01959c4881909eb1adcb3bdadbe6 completed March 9, 2026, 5:21 p.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69af02e4e2308190b527e3b78eb8fa71 completed March 9, 2026, 5:27 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:46 p.m.