Triple

T5210518
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chancellor of the College of William & Mary E117620 entity
Predicate hasOfficeHolder P537 FINISHED
Object Benjamin Stoddert Ewell
Benjamin Stoddert Ewell was a 19th-century American educator and Civil War veteran best known for helping to revive and preserve the College of William & Mary during and after the war.
E514798 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: Benjamin Stoddert Ewell | Statement: [Chancellor of the College of William & Mary, hasOfficeHolder, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin Stoddert Ewell
Context triple: [Chancellor of the College of William & Mary, hasOfficeHolder, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell]
  • A. Richard S. Ewell
    Richard S. Ewell was a Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War, known for commanding a corps in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.
  • B. Fitzhugh Lee
    Fitzhugh Lee was a Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War who later served as Governor of Virginia and U.S. consul general in Havana.
  • C. A.P. Hill
    A.P. Hill was a prominent Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War, best known for commanding the famed Light Division and playing key roles in major battles such as Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg.
  • D. Richard H. Anderson
    Richard H. Anderson was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who held high-level command positions in the Army of Northern Virginia.
  • E. William J. Hardee
    William J. Hardee was a career U.S. Army officer and later Confederate lieutenant general best known for authoring a widely used infantry tactics manual before and during the American Civil War.
  • 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: Benjamin Stoddert Ewell
Triple: [Chancellor of the College of William & Mary, hasOfficeHolder, Benjamin Stoddert Ewell]
Generated description
Benjamin Stoddert Ewell was a 19th-century American educator and Civil War veteran best known for helping to revive and preserve the College of William & Mary during and after the war.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin Stoddert Ewell
Target entity description: Benjamin Stoddert Ewell was a 19th-century American educator and Civil War veteran best known for helping to revive and preserve the College of William & Mary during and after the war.
  • A. Richard S. Ewell
    Richard S. Ewell was a Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War, known for commanding a corps in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.
  • B. Fitzhugh Lee
    Fitzhugh Lee was a Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War who later served as Governor of Virginia and U.S. consul general in Havana.
  • C. A.P. Hill
    A.P. Hill was a prominent Confederate lieutenant general in the American Civil War, best known for commanding the famed Light Division and playing key roles in major battles such as Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg.
  • D. Richard H. Anderson
    Richard H. Anderson was a Confederate general in the American Civil War who held high-level command positions in the Army of Northern Virginia.
  • E. William J. Hardee
    William J. Hardee was a career U.S. Army officer and later Confederate lieutenant general best known for authoring a widely used infantry tactics manual before and during the American Civil War.
  • 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_69bd4464ba3c8190bc16b2ebbe42ddb0 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7a703e388190845dedd17252ddde completed March 20, 2026, 4:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf28faec0081909ed017ee7514ced2 completed March 21, 2026, 11:25 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf297130748190b5b6152fd93c0baf completed March 21, 2026, 11:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf29d1e6548190a52df828fef4f984 completed March 21, 2026, 11:29 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:47 p.m.