Triple

T5720859
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hornet's Nest E126139 entity
Predicate frontCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object Benjamin M. Prentiss
Benjamin M. Prentiss was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, best known for his stubborn defense at the Hornet’s Nest during the Battle of Shiloh.
E562782 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 M. Prentiss | Statement: [Hornet's Nest, frontCommander, Benjamin M. Prentiss]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin M. Prentiss
Context triple: [Hornet's Nest, frontCommander, Benjamin M. Prentiss]
  • A. Benjamin B. Hotchkiss
    Benjamin B. Hotchkiss was a 19th-century American-born engineer and industrialist best known for founding a major armaments company in France and developing innovative artillery and machine guns.
  • B. Moses H. Sherman
    Moses H. Sherman was an American railroad executive and real estate developer who played a key role in the early urban and transportation development of Los Angeles and the American Southwest.
  • C. Lyman J. Gage
    Lyman J. Gage was an American banker and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
  • D. William H. Steele
    William H. Steele was an individual notable enough to be specifically recorded as interred at Hackensack Cemetery in New Jersey.
  • E. William Meade
    William Meade was a prominent 19th-century American Episcopal bishop and religious leader known for his influential role in the church and in Virginia society.
  • 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 M. Prentiss
Triple: [Hornet's Nest, frontCommander, Benjamin M. Prentiss]
Generated description
Benjamin M. Prentiss was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, best known for his stubborn defense at the Hornet’s Nest during the Battle of Shiloh.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin M. Prentiss
Target entity description: Benjamin M. Prentiss was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, best known for his stubborn defense at the Hornet’s Nest during the Battle of Shiloh.
  • A. Benjamin B. Hotchkiss
    Benjamin B. Hotchkiss was a 19th-century American-born engineer and industrialist best known for founding a major armaments company in France and developing innovative artillery and machine guns.
  • B. Moses H. Sherman
    Moses H. Sherman was an American railroad executive and real estate developer who played a key role in the early urban and transportation development of Los Angeles and the American Southwest.
  • C. Lyman J. Gage
    Lyman J. Gage was an American banker and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
  • D. William H. Steele
    William H. Steele was an individual notable enough to be specifically recorded as interred at Hackensack Cemetery in New Jersey.
  • E. William Meade
    William Meade was a prominent 19th-century American Episcopal bishop and religious leader known for his influential role in the church and in Virginia society.
  • 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_69c0082e3d548190950169847b43043b completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c024e328e08190a67e845b296e34e9 completed March 22, 2026, 5:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c107cae1648190a4b3b4de602b5177 completed March 23, 2026, 9:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c1090a7bac8190b5b9e003659b4b34 completed March 23, 2026, 9:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c10d5102348190a9ec7421b1410a99 completed March 23, 2026, 9:52 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:46 p.m.