Triple

T7632865
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 1st Massachusetts Cavalry E172798 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Robert Williams
Robert Williams was a Union Army officer who commanded the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry during the American Civil War.
E678843 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: Robert Williams | Statement: [1st Massachusetts Cavalry, commander, Robert Williams]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Williams
Context triple: [1st Massachusetts Cavalry, commander, Robert Williams]
  • A. Robert Williams
    Robert Williams is an American painter and cartoonist known for his influential role in the underground comix movement and his distinctive, surreal lowbrow art style.
  • B. Randolph Morris
    Randolph Morris is an American professional basketball center known for his play in both the NBA and the Chinese Basketball Association.
  • C. Jacques Dominique Wilkins
    Jacques Dominique "Dominique" Wilkins is a Hall of Fame American former professional basketball player best known as a high-flying NBA scoring star and slam dunk icon with the Atlanta Hawks in the 1980s and 1990s.
  • D. Charles Alverson
    Charles Alverson was an American writer and editor best known for his work in speculative fiction and his collaborations with Terry Gilliam on film projects.
  • E. Manute Bol
    Manute Bol was a Sudanese-born NBA center renowned as one of the greatest shot-blockers in basketball history and a prominent humanitarian.
  • 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: Robert Williams
Triple: [1st Massachusetts Cavalry, commander, Robert Williams]
Generated description
Robert Williams was a Union Army officer who commanded the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry during the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Williams
Target entity description: Robert Williams was a Union Army officer who commanded the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry during the American Civil War.
  • A. Robert Williams
    Robert Williams is an American painter and cartoonist known for his influential role in the underground comix movement and his distinctive, surreal lowbrow art style.
  • B. Randolph Morris
    Randolph Morris is an American professional basketball center known for his play in both the NBA and the Chinese Basketball Association.
  • C. Jacques Dominique Wilkins
    Jacques Dominique "Dominique" Wilkins is a Hall of Fame American former professional basketball player best known as a high-flying NBA scoring star and slam dunk icon with the Atlanta Hawks in the 1980s and 1990s.
  • D. Charles Alverson
    Charles Alverson was an American writer and editor best known for his work in speculative fiction and his collaborations with Terry Gilliam on film projects.
  • E. Manute Bol
    Manute Bol was a Sudanese-born NBA center renowned as one of the greatest shot-blockers in basketball history and a prominent humanitarian.
  • 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_69c69952849881908fdcea7a93bfc307 completed March 27, 2026, 2:50 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6faa5f4f08190a7e5259a1b6fb576 completed March 27, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c870b95c1c8190a7d885bd0a534a6a completed March 29, 2026, 12:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8723391f48190b60ba8952c9ccca7 completed March 29, 2026, 12:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c87401aaa48190b3e44298fcd3f37f completed March 29, 2026, 12:36 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:57 p.m.