Triple

T8125479
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Second Battle of Petersburg E189715 entity
Predicate followedBy P78 FINISHED
Object Fourth Battle of Petersburg
The Fourth Battle of Petersburg was a late March 1865 Union offensive during the American Civil War that helped break Confederate defensive lines around Petersburg, Virginia, paving the way for the fall of Richmond and the war’s end.
E719750 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: Fourth Battle of Petersburg | Statement: [Second Battle of Petersburg, followedBy, Fourth Battle of Petersburg]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fourth Battle of Petersburg
Context triple: [Second Battle of Petersburg, followedBy, Fourth Battle of Petersburg]
  • A. Third Battle of Petersburg
    The Third Battle of Petersburg was the decisive Union assault in April 1865 that broke Confederate defenses around Petersburg, leading directly to the fall of Richmond and the endgame of the American Civil War.
  • B. Second Battle of Petersburg
    The Second Battle of Petersburg was a key June 1864 American Civil War clash in Virginia in which failed Union assaults against Confederate defenses led directly to the prolonged Siege of Petersburg.
  • C. Siege of Petersburg
    The Siege of Petersburg was a prolonged series of trench warfare operations in 1864–1865 around Petersburg, Virginia, whose eventual Union victory cut off Confederate supply lines and led directly to the fall of Richmond and the end of the American Civil War.
  • D. Battle of Five Forks
    The Battle of Five Forks was a decisive American Civil War engagement in April 1865 in Virginia, where Union forces broke Confederate lines, leading directly to the fall of Petersburg and Richmond and the surrender at Appomattox.
  • E. Battle of Cold Harbor
    The Battle of Cold Harbor was a major and notoriously bloody 1864 Civil War engagement near Richmond, Virginia, in which Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee repelled repeated Union assaults during Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign.
  • 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: Fourth Battle of Petersburg
Triple: [Second Battle of Petersburg, followedBy, Fourth Battle of Petersburg]
Generated description
The Fourth Battle of Petersburg was a late March 1865 Union offensive during the American Civil War that helped break Confederate defensive lines around Petersburg, Virginia, paving the way for the fall of Richmond and the war’s end.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fourth Battle of Petersburg
Target entity description: The Fourth Battle of Petersburg was a late March 1865 Union offensive during the American Civil War that helped break Confederate defensive lines around Petersburg, Virginia, paving the way for the fall of Richmond and the war’s end.
  • A. Third Battle of Petersburg
    The Third Battle of Petersburg was the decisive Union assault in April 1865 that broke Confederate defenses around Petersburg, leading directly to the fall of Richmond and the endgame of the American Civil War.
  • B. Second Battle of Petersburg
    The Second Battle of Petersburg was a key June 1864 American Civil War clash in Virginia in which failed Union assaults against Confederate defenses led directly to the prolonged Siege of Petersburg.
  • C. Siege of Petersburg
    The Siege of Petersburg was a prolonged series of trench warfare operations in 1864–1865 around Petersburg, Virginia, whose eventual Union victory cut off Confederate supply lines and led directly to the fall of Richmond and the end of the American Civil War.
  • D. Battle of Five Forks
    The Battle of Five Forks was a decisive American Civil War engagement in April 1865 in Virginia, where Union forces broke Confederate lines, leading directly to the fall of Petersburg and Richmond and the surrender at Appomattox.
  • E. Battle of Cold Harbor
    The Battle of Cold Harbor was a major and notoriously bloody 1864 Civil War engagement near Richmond, Virginia, in which Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee repelled repeated Union assaults during Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign.
  • 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_69ca82bb74848190afb1f18640632c10 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb438eb778819085296e6cbfa2e70d completed March 31, 2026, 3:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cced122cf08190b9cf17c3055e5431 completed April 1, 2026, 10:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ccf09a952c8190ace6a9f0012ad90a completed April 1, 2026, 10:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd055292088190927046793cec1c36 completed April 1, 2026, 11:45 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:34 p.m.