Triple

T6563562
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject We Were Soldiers Once... and Young E153844 entity
Predicate hasAdaptation P1690 FINISHED
Object We Were Soldiers
We Were Soldiers is a 2002 war film depicting the Battle of Ia Drang during the Vietnam War, starring Mel Gibson and based on the nonfiction book "We Were Soldiers Once... and Young."
E153844 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: We Were Soldiers | Statement: [We Were Soldiers Once... and Young, hasAdaptation, We Were Soldiers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: We Were Soldiers
Context triple: [We Were Soldiers Once... and Young, hasAdaptation, We Were Soldiers]
  • A. We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
    We Were Soldiers Once... and Young is a non-fiction book by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway that recounts their firsthand experiences and leadership during one of the first major battles between U.S. forces and the North Vietnamese Army in the Vietnam War.
  • B. Two Soldiers
    "Two Soldiers" is a traditional American folk ballad about brothers going off to war, notably popularized by Bob Dylan’s recording on his 1993 album *World Gone Wrong*.
  • C. A Soldier's Story
    A Soldier's Story is a 1984 American drama film adapted from Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize–winning play, exploring racism and justice within a segregated Black army unit during World War II.
  • D. The American Soldier
    The American Soldier is a symbolic collective representing U.S. military personnel, recognized for their service and impact, including being honored as Time magazine's Person of the Year.
  • E. Ghost Soldiers
    Ghost Soldiers is a nonfiction book by Hampton Sides that recounts the daring World War II rescue of American POWs from a Japanese camp in the Philippines.
  • 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: We Were Soldiers
Triple: [We Were Soldiers Once... and Young, hasAdaptation, We Were Soldiers]
Generated description
We Were Soldiers is a 2002 war film depicting the Battle of Ia Drang during the Vietnam War, starring Mel Gibson and based on the nonfiction book "We Were Soldiers Once... and Young."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: We Were Soldiers
Target entity description: We Were Soldiers is a 2002 war film depicting the Battle of Ia Drang during the Vietnam War, starring Mel Gibson and based on the nonfiction book "We Were Soldiers Once... and Young."
  • A. We Were Soldiers Once... and Young chosen
    We Were Soldiers Once... and Young is a non-fiction book by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway that recounts their firsthand experiences and leadership during one of the first major battles between U.S. forces and the North Vietnamese Army in the Vietnam War.
  • B. Two Soldiers
    "Two Soldiers" is a traditional American folk ballad about brothers going off to war, notably popularized by Bob Dylan’s recording on his 1993 album *World Gone Wrong*.
  • C. A Soldier's Story
    A Soldier's Story is a 1984 American drama film adapted from Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize–winning play, exploring racism and justice within a segregated Black army unit during World War II.
  • D. The American Soldier
    The American Soldier is a symbolic collective representing U.S. military personnel, recognized for their service and impact, including being honored as Time magazine's Person of the Year.
  • E. Ghost Soldiers
    Ghost Soldiers is a nonfiction book by Hampton Sides that recounts the daring World War II rescue of American POWs from a Japanese camp in the Philippines.
  • F. None of above.

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_69c6880cb35881909b763eb0125236b9 completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6ae3a40488190892d20ca0d60b937 completed March 27, 2026, 4:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6d55fa1bc81908f2929e835051532 completed March 27, 2026, 7:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6d676e43081909bf2a9cceff0b9b3 completed March 27, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6d843bad081909ebb887f32ea4195 completed March 27, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:52 p.m.