Triple

T5270784
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 16th Michigan Infantry E119250 entity
Predicate corpsCommanderAtGettysburg P62745 FINISHED
Object Major General George Sykes
Major General George Sykes was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War who commanded the Union V Corps, including at the Battle of Gettysburg.
E506589 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Major General George Sykes | Statement: [16th Michigan Infantry, corpsCommanderAtGettysburg, Major General George Sykes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major General George Sykes
Context triple: [16th Michigan Infantry, corpsCommanderAtGettysburg, Major General George Sykes]
  • A. Major-General Sidney Kirkman
    Major-General Sidney Kirkman was a senior British Army officer of the Second World War, noted for his leadership of infantry formations in key campaigns including North Africa and Italy.
  • B. Major-General Douglas Graham
    Major-General Douglas Graham was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during key operations of the Second World War.
  • C. Major-General George Erskine
    Major-General George Erskine was a British Army officer best known for commanding the famed "Desert Rats" of the 7th Armoured Division during the Second World War.
  • D. Major-General Richard Nelson Gale
    Major-General Richard Nelson Gale was a British Army officer and airborne warfare pioneer who commanded the 6th Airborne Division during key operations of the Second World War, including the Normandy landings.
  • E. Major-General Tom Rennie
    Major-General Tom Rennie was a British Army officer who distinguished himself as a frontline divisional commander during key campaigns of the Second World War, including the Normandy landings.
  • 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: Major General George Sykes
Triple: [16th Michigan Infantry, corpsCommanderAtGettysburg, Major General George Sykes]
Generated description
Major General George Sykes was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War who commanded the Union V Corps, including at the Battle of Gettysburg.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Major General George Sykes
Target entity description: Major General George Sykes was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War who commanded the Union V Corps, including at the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • A. Major-General Sidney Kirkman
    Major-General Sidney Kirkman was a senior British Army officer of the Second World War, noted for his leadership of infantry formations in key campaigns including North Africa and Italy.
  • B. Major-General Douglas Graham
    Major-General Douglas Graham was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during key operations of the Second World War.
  • C. Major-General George Erskine
    Major-General George Erskine was a British Army officer best known for commanding the famed "Desert Rats" of the 7th Armoured Division during the Second World War.
  • D. Major-General Richard Nelson Gale
    Major-General Richard Nelson Gale was a British Army officer and airborne warfare pioneer who commanded the 6th Airborne Division during key operations of the Second World War, including the Normandy landings.
  • E. Major-General Tom Rennie
    Major-General Tom Rennie was a British Army officer who distinguished himself as a frontline divisional commander during key campaigns of the Second World War, including the Normandy landings.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: corpsCommanderAtGettysburg
Context triple: [16th Michigan Infantry, corpsCommanderAtGettysburg, Major General George Sykes]
  • A. commandingUnionArmy
    Indicates that one entity holds the role or responsibility of leading and directing the Union Army.
  • B. primaryConfederateCommander
    Indicates that one entity serves as the main commanding officer of Confederate forces for the other entity in a specific context or engagement.
  • C. notableCommanderAmerican
    Indicates that the subject served as a notable military commander who is American.
  • D. commandingConfederateForces
    Indicates that one entity holds the role or responsibility of directing and leading the military operations of the Confederate forces in relation to another entity.
  • E. GettysburgAddressSpeaker
    Indicates the entity that delivered or spoke the Gettysburg Address.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (7 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_69bd7d5a23908190a24e79d1b29d6fcf completed March 20, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69befe9691608190bae0865f80e23062 completed March 21, 2026, 8:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69beff56b42881909ff4f574ef87b693 completed March 21, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf00120fe88190817badb72977566e completed March 21, 2026, 8:31 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69bd77c71268819094f9f5203eed392d completed March 20, 2026, 4:37 p.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69bd7d5906d88190b805977e5a05767a completed March 20, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:51 p.m.