Triple

T4864681
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Buffalo Soldiers E108738 entity
Predicate decoratedMember P59477 FINISHED
Object Charles Young
Charles Young was a pioneering African American U.S. Army officer and diplomat who became one of the highest-ranking Black military leaders of his era and a prominent commander of the Buffalo Soldiers.
E474587 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: Charles Young | Statement: [Buffalo Soldiers, decoratedMember, Charles Young]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Young
Context triple: [Buffalo Soldiers, decoratedMember, Charles Young]
  • A. Henry Dodge
    Henry Dodge was an American military officer and politician who became prominent for leading frontier forces in early 19th-century conflicts and later serving as a U.S. senator and territorial governor.
  • B. William H. Steele
    William H. Steele was an individual notable enough to be specifically recorded as interred at Hackensack Cemetery in New Jersey.
  • C. James Henry Carleton
    James Henry Carleton was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer best known for his harsh campaigns against Native American tribes in the Southwest and his role in the Long Walk of the Navajo.
  • D. William G. Fargo
    William G. Fargo was a 19th-century American businessman and express pioneer best known as a co-founder of American Express and Wells Fargo.
  • E. William A. Porter
    William A. Porter was an American businessman and technology pioneer best known as the co-founder of the online brokerage firm E-Trade.
  • 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: Charles Young
Triple: [Buffalo Soldiers, decoratedMember, Charles Young]
Generated description
Charles Young was a pioneering African American U.S. Army officer and diplomat who became one of the highest-ranking Black military leaders of his era and a prominent commander of the Buffalo Soldiers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Young
Target entity description: Charles Young was a pioneering African American U.S. Army officer and diplomat who became one of the highest-ranking Black military leaders of his era and a prominent commander of the Buffalo Soldiers.
  • A. Henry Dodge
    Henry Dodge was an American military officer and politician who became prominent for leading frontier forces in early 19th-century conflicts and later serving as a U.S. senator and territorial governor.
  • B. William H. Steele
    William H. Steele was an individual notable enough to be specifically recorded as interred at Hackensack Cemetery in New Jersey.
  • C. James Henry Carleton
    James Henry Carleton was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer best known for his harsh campaigns against Native American tribes in the Southwest and his role in the Long Walk of the Navajo.
  • D. William G. Fargo
    William G. Fargo was a 19th-century American businessman and express pioneer best known as a co-founder of American Express and Wells Fargo.
  • E. William A. Porter
    William A. Porter was an American businessman and technology pioneer best known as the co-founder of the online brokerage firm E-Trade.
  • 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_69bd440b965081908b0557721cae6338 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7162427c81908a67a07545f698ae completed March 20, 2026, 4:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be5d0008288190b516fa0bc7458564 completed March 21, 2026, 8:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be6012b0808190b9380b4ea7550681 completed March 21, 2026, 9:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be608860dc81908e7268791b1b6614 completed March 21, 2026, 9:10 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:26 p.m.