Triple

T487054
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Appomattox Court House, Virginia E9900 entity
Predicate countySeatMovedTo P14038 FINISHED
Object Appomattox, Virginia
Appomattox, Virginia is a small historic town in central Virginia best known as the site near which Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War.
E9900 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: Appomattox, Virginia | Statement: [Appomattox Court House, Virginia, countySeatMovedTo, Appomattox, Virginia]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Appomattox, Virginia
Context triple: [Appomattox Court House, Virginia, countySeatMovedTo, Appomattox, Virginia]
  • A. Appomattox Court House, Virginia
    Appomattox Court House, Virginia is a historic village best known as the site where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War.
  • B. Manassas
    Manassas is an independent city in Northern Virginia best known as the site of two major American Civil War battles and now a suburban community within the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
  • C. Fredericksburg
    Fredericksburg is a historic independent city in Virginia known for its significant Civil War battlefields and well-preserved colonial-era downtown.
  • D. Winchester, Virginia
    Winchester, Virginia is a historic independent city in the northern Shenandoah Valley known for its Civil War significance, apple orchards, and annual Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival.
  • E. City of Manassas Park, Virginia
    The City of Manassas Park, Virginia is an independent, suburban city in Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C., known for its residential communities and proximity to major regional transportation corridors.
  • 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: Appomattox, Virginia
Triple: [Appomattox Court House, Virginia, countySeatMovedTo, Appomattox, Virginia]
Generated description
Appomattox, Virginia is a small historic town in central Virginia best known as the site near which Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Appomattox, Virginia
Target entity description: Appomattox, Virginia is a small historic town in central Virginia best known as the site near which Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War.
  • A. Appomattox Court House, Virginia chosen
    Appomattox Court House, Virginia is a historic village best known as the site where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War.
  • B. Manassas
    Manassas is an independent city in Northern Virginia best known as the site of two major American Civil War battles and now a suburban community within the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
  • C. Fredericksburg
    Fredericksburg is a historic independent city in Virginia known for its significant Civil War battlefields and well-preserved colonial-era downtown.
  • D. Winchester, Virginia
    Winchester, Virginia is a historic independent city in the northern Shenandoah Valley known for its Civil War significance, apple orchards, and annual Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival.
  • E. City of Manassas Park, Virginia
    The City of Manassas Park, Virginia is an independent, suburban city in Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C., known for its residential communities and proximity to major regional transportation corridors.
  • F. None of above.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: countySeatMovedTo
Context triple: [Appomattox Court House, Virginia, countySeatMovedTo, Appomattox, Virginia]
  • A. countySeat
    Indicates that one place serves as the administrative center or capital of a county.
  • B. headquartersMovedOn
    Indicates that the location of an entity’s headquarters changed on a specific date or point in time.
  • C. movedHeadquartersFrom
    Indicates that an entity relocated its main headquarters from one specified place to another.
  • D. servedAsStateCapitalUntil
    Indicates that a location functioned as the official capital of a state up to a specified end date.
  • E. formerMunicipalityOf
    Indicates that an entity was previously an independent municipality that has since been merged into or replaced by the referenced municipality.
  • 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_69a2e802e2908190ab17c9479e0b6412 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f0de66308190a18503a482881cfc completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4e62e2b3c81908215dab8c0717495 completed March 2, 2026, 1:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4e6b3f570819087fe28f3225afe88 completed March 2, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4e706d3e88190822eeb4a724a9b6a completed March 2, 2026, 1:25 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a2edf63fbc819090ea6ca11f39116a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:30 p.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69a2eebb2c908190960a4d0c014304cd completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.