Triple

T6195426
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Confederate States Navy E138497 entity
Predicate notableCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object John Newland Maffitt
John Newland Maffitt was a prominent Confederate naval officer and commerce raider during the American Civil War, best known for his daring command of the cruiser CSS Florida.
E580903 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: John Newland Maffitt | Statement: [Confederate States Navy, notableCommander, John Newland Maffitt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Newland Maffitt
Context triple: [Confederate States Navy, notableCommander, John Newland Maffitt]
  • A. Philip M. Landrum
    Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
  • B. John Milledge
    John Milledge was an American politician and statesman who served as governor of Georgia and a U.S. congressman in the early 19th century.
  • C. James L. Massey
    James L. Massey was an American information theorist and cryptographer known for his fundamental contributions to coding theory, stream ciphers, and the development of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm.
  • D. Charles A. Jewell
    Charles A. Jewell was an American naval officer who served as a rear admiral in the United States Navy.
  • E. Charles S. Hamlin
    Charles S. Hamlin was an American lawyer and public official who became the first chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, helping to establish the early framework of U.S. central banking 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: John Newland Maffitt
Triple: [Confederate States Navy, notableCommander, John Newland Maffitt]
Generated description
John Newland Maffitt was a prominent Confederate naval officer and commerce raider during the American Civil War, best known for his daring command of the cruiser CSS Florida.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Newland Maffitt
Target entity description: John Newland Maffitt was a prominent Confederate naval officer and commerce raider during the American Civil War, best known for his daring command of the cruiser CSS Florida.
  • A. Philip M. Landrum
    Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
  • B. John Milledge
    John Milledge was an American politician and statesman who served as governor of Georgia and a U.S. congressman in the early 19th century.
  • C. James L. Massey
    James L. Massey was an American information theorist and cryptographer known for his fundamental contributions to coding theory, stream ciphers, and the development of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm.
  • D. Charles A. Jewell
    Charles A. Jewell was an American naval officer who served as a rear admiral in the United States Navy.
  • E. Charles S. Hamlin
    Charles S. Hamlin was an American lawyer and public official who became the first chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, helping to establish the early framework of U.S. central banking 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_69c008ab9b3081908a11b2c744838435 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0624571508190bd273b4a051fbe41 completed March 22, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c243da922c819080d8d37adbb5635e completed March 24, 2026, 7:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c4fb66b8e8819090524d1ef12688a7 completed March 26, 2026, 9:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c4fc3065bc81908d95fbd3d4655c76 completed March 26, 2026, 9:28 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:20 p.m.