Triple

T5150103
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment E116171 entity
Predicate notableCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object Ellis Spear
Ellis Spear was a Union Army officer and later brevet brigadier general in the American Civil War, best known for his service with the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg and his subsequent career as a lawyer and public official.
E499554 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: Ellis Spear | Statement: [20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, notableCommander, Ellis Spear]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ellis Spear
Context triple: [20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, notableCommander, Ellis Spear]
  • A. Daniel Comstock
    Daniel Comstock was an American scientist and engineer best known as a co-founder of Technicolor, a pioneering company in color motion picture technology.
  • B. Ellis Bell
    Ellis Bell is the pseudonym used by English novelist Emily Brontë, best known for writing the classic Gothic novel "Wuthering Heights."
  • C. Elliott Wheeler
    Elliott Wheeler is an Australian composer and music producer known for his work on film and television scores, including the 2022 biographical musical film "Elvis."
  • D. Roswell Smith
    Roswell Smith was a 19th-century American publisher and businessman best known as a co-founder of The Century Company, which produced the influential magazine "The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine."
  • E. Theodate Pope Riddle
    Theodate Pope Riddle was a pioneering early 20th-century American architect and one of the first licensed female architects in the United States.
  • 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: Ellis Spear
Triple: [20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, notableCommander, Ellis Spear]
Generated description
Ellis Spear was a Union Army officer and later brevet brigadier general in the American Civil War, best known for his service with the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg and his subsequent career as a lawyer and public official.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ellis Spear
Target entity description: Ellis Spear was a Union Army officer and later brevet brigadier general in the American Civil War, best known for his service with the 20th Maine at the Battle of Gettysburg and his subsequent career as a lawyer and public official.
  • A. Daniel Comstock
    Daniel Comstock was an American scientist and engineer best known as a co-founder of Technicolor, a pioneering company in color motion picture technology.
  • B. Ellis Bell
    Ellis Bell is the pseudonym used by English novelist Emily Brontë, best known for writing the classic Gothic novel "Wuthering Heights."
  • C. Elliott Wheeler
    Elliott Wheeler is an Australian composer and music producer known for his work on film and television scores, including the 2022 biographical musical film "Elvis."
  • D. Roswell Smith
    Roswell Smith was a 19th-century American publisher and businessman best known as a co-founder of The Century Company, which produced the influential magazine "The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine."
  • E. Theodate Pope Riddle
    Theodate Pope Riddle was a pioneering early 20th-century American architect and one of the first licensed female architects in the United States.
  • 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_69bd4446c0e08190a7c29dc74976bf03 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd78d7f4d081908d59adcd86f52f1d completed March 20, 2026, 4:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bed9235de88190b3698a90af91c33d completed March 21, 2026, 5:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bedaaca3d0819089ef56835ba254b0 completed March 21, 2026, 5:51 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bedb1ae560819084de6275b6ebaa23 completed March 21, 2026, 5:53 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:43 p.m.