Triple

T5270779
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 16th Michigan Infantry E119250 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Colonel Norval E. Welch
Colonel Norval E. Welch was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War best known for leading the 16th Michigan Infantry in key engagements such as the Battle of Gettysburg.
E517252 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 Norval E. Welch | Statement: [16th Michigan Infantry, commander, Colonel Norval E. Welch]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Norval E. Welch
Context triple: [16th Michigan Infantry, commander, Colonel Norval E. Welch]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward
    Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward was a Union Army officer who led the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry during the American Civil War.
  • D. Colonel Oscar F. Peatross
    Colonel Oscar F. Peatross was a highly decorated United States Marine Corps officer and World War II veteran who later led Marine forces during the Vietnam War.
  • E. Col. Herbert Y. Schandler
    Col. Herbert Y. Schandler was a U.S. Army officer and military historian known for his influential analyses of the Vietnam War and American foreign policy.
  • 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 Norval E. Welch
Triple: [16th Michigan Infantry, commander, Colonel Norval E. Welch]
Generated description
Colonel Norval E. Welch was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War best known for leading the 16th Michigan Infantry in key engagements such as the Battle of Gettysburg.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Norval E. Welch
Target entity description: Colonel Norval E. Welch was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War best known for leading the 16th Michigan Infantry in key engagements such as the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward
    Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward was a Union Army officer who led the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry during the American Civil War.
  • D. Colonel Oscar F. Peatross
    Colonel Oscar F. Peatross was a highly decorated United States Marine Corps officer and World War II veteran who later led Marine forces during the Vietnam War.
  • E. Col. Herbert Y. Schandler
    Col. Herbert Y. Schandler was a U.S. Army officer and military historian known for his influential analyses of the Vietnam War and American foreign policy.
  • 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_69bd446c38e081908cdaf113bdf86790 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7bff37cc819095423cf914086c1b completed March 20, 2026, 4:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf33248cf481908eeb0abd3b1a7828 completed March 22, 2026, 12:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf33e3b9ac819091cb000a98a505cd completed March 22, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf349a746481909a8ba2a854e29449 completed March 22, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:51 p.m.