Triple

T5468566
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pennsylvania militia E122773 entity
Predicate notableCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object James Ewing
James Ewing was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from Pennsylvania who served as a militia general and later as the state's vice president (lieutenant governor).
E729092 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: James Ewing | Statement: [Pennsylvania militia, notableCommander, James Ewing]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Ewing
Context triple: [Pennsylvania militia, notableCommander, James Ewing]
  • A. James Ewing
    James Ewing was a pioneering American pathologist and oncologist whose work helped establish cancer research and treatment as a distinct medical discipline.
  • B. Hugh Boyle Ewing
    Hugh Boyle Ewing was a Union Army general and diplomat during the American Civil War era, known for his service in key Western Theater campaigns and later roles as a U.S. minister to foreign countries.
  • C. Oscar R. Ewing
    Oscar R. Ewing was an American lawyer and public official who played a key role in shaping mid-20th-century U.S. social welfare and health policy.
  • D. Alfred Moore Waddell
    Alfred Moore Waddell was a North Carolina lawyer, Confederate veteran, and white supremacist politician who became notorious for leading the violent 1898 coup in Wilmington that overthrew the city’s multiracial government.
  • E. Thomas S. Tait
    Thomas S. Tait was a prominent Scottish modernist architect known for major public and commercial buildings in the early 20th century, including landmark works in Edinburgh and London.
  • 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: James Ewing
Triple: [Pennsylvania militia, notableCommander, James Ewing]
Generated description
James Ewing was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from Pennsylvania who served as a militia general and later as the state's vice president (lieutenant governor).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Ewing
Target entity description: James Ewing was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from Pennsylvania who served as a militia general and later as the state's vice president (lieutenant governor).
  • A. James Ewing
    James Ewing was a pioneering American pathologist and oncologist whose work helped establish cancer research and treatment as a distinct medical discipline.
  • B. Hugh Boyle Ewing
    Hugh Boyle Ewing was a Union Army general and diplomat during the American Civil War era, known for his service in key Western Theater campaigns and later roles as a U.S. minister to foreign countries.
  • C. Oscar R. Ewing
    Oscar R. Ewing was an American lawyer and public official who played a key role in shaping mid-20th-century U.S. social welfare and health policy.
  • D. Alfred Moore Waddell
    Alfred Moore Waddell was a North Carolina lawyer, Confederate veteran, and white supremacist politician who became notorious for leading the violent 1898 coup in Wilmington that overthrew the city’s multiracial government.
  • E. Thomas S. Tait
    Thomas S. Tait was a prominent Scottish modernist architect known for major public and commercial buildings in the early 20th century, including landmark works in Edinburgh and London.
  • 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_69bd4643f16081908d7f29e08096115a completed March 20, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd92198ea08190a08357f3756572a2 completed March 20, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cde6789ec081909b051b8ce1bde35d completed April 2, 2026, 3:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cdeb1fa7308190810b1fcc2184374a completed April 2, 2026, 4:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cdec3081d88190ad0699f9072d3fc7 completed April 2, 2026, 4:10 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:09 p.m.