Triple

T7632866
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 1st Massachusetts Cavalry E172798 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Horace Binney Sargent
Horace Binney Sargent was a Union Army officer and later politician and public servant from Massachusetts who gained prominence for his leadership during the American Civil War.
 E726230 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: Horace Binney Sargent | Statement: [1st Massachusetts Cavalry, commander, Horace Binney Sargent]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Horace Binney Sargent
Context triple: [1st Massachusetts Cavalry, commander, Horace Binney Sargent]
  • A. Henry Oscar Houghton
    Henry Oscar Houghton was a 19th-century American printer, publisher, and politician best known for co-founding the influential publishing house Houghton Mifflin.
  • B. George Holbrook
    George Holbrook was an American clockmaker and bell founder known for producing church bells and tower clocks in the 19th century.
  • C. Frank Sargent
    Frank Sargent was a prominent Canadian ice hockey administrator best known for his influential leadership within the country’s amateur hockey system.
  • D. FitzWilliam Sargent
    FitzWilliam Sargent was the father of renowned American expatriate portrait painter John Singer Sargent.
  • E. W. Burton Wescott
    W. Burton Wescott was an early film industry figure best known as one of the founders of the pioneering color motion picture company Technicolor.
  • 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: Horace Binney Sargent
Triple: [1st Massachusetts Cavalry, commander, Horace Binney Sargent]
Generated description
Horace Binney Sargent was a Union Army officer and later politician and public servant from Massachusetts who gained prominence for his leadership during the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Horace Binney Sargent
Target entity description: Horace Binney Sargent was a Union Army officer and later politician and public servant from Massachusetts who gained prominence for his leadership during the American Civil War.
  • A. Henry Oscar Houghton
    Henry Oscar Houghton was a 19th-century American printer, publisher, and politician best known for co-founding the influential publishing house Houghton Mifflin.
  • B. George Holbrook
    George Holbrook was an American clockmaker and bell founder known for producing church bells and tower clocks in the 19th century.
  • C. Frank Sargent
    Frank Sargent was a prominent Canadian ice hockey administrator best known for his influential leadership within the country’s amateur hockey system.
  • D. FitzWilliam Sargent
    FitzWilliam Sargent was the father of renowned American expatriate portrait painter John Singer Sargent.
  • E. W. Burton Wescott
    W. Burton Wescott was an early film industry figure best known as one of the founders of the pioneering color motion picture company Technicolor.
  • 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_69cd93fee4c88190a00a71c146067eef completed April 1, 2026, 9:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cdab59ac188190ac017651b5a9a04a completed April 1, 2026, 11:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cdb2ae376c8190b3918ba6b269dba9 completed April 2, 2026, 12:05 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:57 p.m.