Triple

T4543070
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Samuel Francis Du Pont E109981 entity
Predicate operationParticipatedIn P149 FINISHED
Object Union naval blockade of the Confederate coast E391304 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Union naval blockade of the Confederate coast | Statement: [Samuel Francis Du Pont, operationParticipatedIn, Union naval blockade of the Confederate coast]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Union naval blockade of the Confederate coast
Context triple: [Samuel Francis Du Pont, operationParticipatedIn, Union naval blockade of the Confederate coast]
  • A. Union blockade of the Confederacy chosen
    The Union blockade of the Confederacy was a comprehensive naval strategy by the United States during the American Civil War aimed at crippling the Southern economy by preventing the export of cotton and the import of war supplies.
  • B. South Atlantic Blockading theater
    The South Atlantic Blockading theater was the Civil War naval operations area along the southeastern coast of the United States where Union forces sought to blockade Confederate ports and control key coastal waters.
  • C. Bombardment of Fort Sumter
    The Bombardment of Fort Sumter was the April 1861 Confederate artillery attack on a U.S. fort in Charleston Harbor that triggered the start of the American Civil War.
  • D. Chesapeake campaign
    The Chesapeake campaign was a series of British military operations along the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast during the War of 1812, culminating in major actions such as the burning of Washington and the defense of Baltimore.
  • E. Sherman’s March to the Sea
    Sherman’s March to the Sea was Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s devastating 1864 campaign across Georgia that aimed to cripple the Confederacy’s war capacity through widespread destruction of military and economic resources.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69bd4412524c8190be5bcc9ddee91848 elicitation completed
NER batch_69bd57d3be988190bf118c4a87415613 ner completed
NED1 batch_69bdb92eeaf081909a868825e3a878c7 ned_source_triple completed
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:05 p.m.