Triple

T5051231
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Great Locomotive Chase E113788 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object James J. Andrews
James J. Andrews was a Union civilian spy and raid leader during the American Civil War, best known for organizing the daring 1862 locomotive theft behind Confederate lines known as the Great Locomotive Chase.
E491032 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: James J. Andrews | Statement: [Great Locomotive Chase, commander, James J. Andrews]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James J. Andrews
Context triple: [Great Locomotive Chase, commander, James J. Andrews]
  • A. J. N. Andrews
    J. N. Andrews was a prominent 19th-century Seventh-day Adventist scholar, missionary, and theologian, recognized as one of the denomination’s earliest and most influential leaders.
  • B. Talbot Jennings
    Talbot Jennings was an American screenwriter known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including several acclaimed literary and historical adaptations.
  • C. George R. Roberts
    George R. Roberts is an American billionaire investor and co-founder of the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), known as a pioneer in leveraged buyouts.
  • D. Louis W. Hill
    Louis W. Hill was an American railroad executive and businessman who helped expand and promote the Great Northern Railway and tourism in the northwestern United States.
  • E. Theodore Hickman
    Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
  • 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: James J. Andrews
Triple: [Great Locomotive Chase, commander, James J. Andrews]
Generated description
James J. Andrews was a Union civilian spy and raid leader during the American Civil War, best known for organizing the daring 1862 locomotive theft behind Confederate lines known as the Great Locomotive Chase.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James J. Andrews
Target entity description: James J. Andrews was a Union civilian spy and raid leader during the American Civil War, best known for organizing the daring 1862 locomotive theft behind Confederate lines known as the Great Locomotive Chase.
  • A. J. N. Andrews
    J. N. Andrews was a prominent 19th-century Seventh-day Adventist scholar, missionary, and theologian, recognized as one of the denomination’s earliest and most influential leaders.
  • B. Talbot Jennings
    Talbot Jennings was an American screenwriter known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including several acclaimed literary and historical adaptations.
  • C. George R. Roberts
    George R. Roberts is an American billionaire investor and co-founder of the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), known as a pioneer in leveraged buyouts.
  • D. Louis W. Hill
    Louis W. Hill was an American railroad executive and businessman who helped expand and promote the Great Northern Railway and tourism in the northwestern United States.
  • E. Theodore Hickman
    Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
  • 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_69bd443aa1f88190abb992d138f2cf42 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7426fc8081908a8227f73168c235 completed March 20, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bea483b6cc8190b3b48598a291d708 completed March 21, 2026, 2 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bea5e902a88190a96a0dea88d3952e completed March 21, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bea9961f8c8190b7ac93e199aa76d7 completed March 21, 2026, 2:22 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:37 p.m.