Triple

T5195432
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry E117258 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Colonel John W. McLane
Colonel John W. McLane was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War best known for leading the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry in key engagements such as the Battle of Gettysburg.
E502485 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: Colonel John W. McLane | Statement: [83rd Pennsylvania Infantry, commander, Colonel John W. McLane]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel John W. McLane
Context triple: [83rd Pennsylvania Infantry, commander, Colonel John W. McLane]
  • A. Colonel Maxcy Gregg
    Colonel Maxcy Gregg was a Confederate officer and brigade commander from South Carolina who fought in several major battles of the American Civil War before being mortally wounded at Fredericksburg.
  • B. Colonel George F. James
    Colonel George F. James was a notable figure in California history whose prominence led to the town of Jamestown being named in his honor.
  • C. Colonel Frank Fitts
    Colonel Frank Fitts is a strict, repressed former Marine officer and abusive father whose hidden vulnerabilities and internalized homophobia drive much of the tension in the film American Beauty.
  • D. Major G. L. M. Clauson
    Major G. L. M. Clauson was a British official and heraldic designer best known for creating the coat of arms used on the flag of the Falkland Islands.
  • E. Colonel Alexander Bliss
    Colonel Alexander Bliss was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for requesting and preserving one of the authoritative manuscript copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
  • 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: Colonel John W. McLane
Triple: [83rd Pennsylvania Infantry, commander, Colonel John W. McLane]
Generated description
Colonel John W. McLane was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War best known for leading the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry in key engagements such as the Battle of Gettysburg.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel John W. McLane
Target entity description: Colonel John W. McLane was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War best known for leading the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry in key engagements such as the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • A. Colonel Maxcy Gregg
    Colonel Maxcy Gregg was a Confederate officer and brigade commander from South Carolina who fought in several major battles of the American Civil War before being mortally wounded at Fredericksburg.
  • B. Colonel George F. James
    Colonel George F. James was a notable figure in California history whose prominence led to the town of Jamestown being named in his honor.
  • C. Colonel Frank Fitts
    Colonel Frank Fitts is a strict, repressed former Marine officer and abusive father whose hidden vulnerabilities and internalized homophobia drive much of the tension in the film American Beauty.
  • D. Major G. L. M. Clauson
    Major G. L. M. Clauson was a British official and heraldic designer best known for creating the coat of arms used on the flag of the Falkland Islands.
  • E. Colonel Alexander Bliss
    Colonel Alexander Bliss was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for requesting and preserving one of the authoritative manuscript copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
  • 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_69bd4462ed04819084fcb01eb9d2fa74 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd79f2935c81909b4e33904b89e818 completed March 20, 2026, 4:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69beefc1c03c819085acf062fac2913c completed March 21, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bef02080f48190836ed5c36e53a620 completed March 21, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bef099826481909b4c4e3e0718752a completed March 21, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:46 p.m.