Triple

T8169424
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of the Crater E190777 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object William Mahone
William Mahone was a Confederate major general and former railroad engineer who became notable for his decisive counterattack at the Battle of the Crater during the American Civil War and later served as a U.S. senator from Virginia.
E715949 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: William Mahone | Statement: [Battle of the Crater, commander, William Mahone]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Mahone
Context triple: [Battle of the Crater, commander, William Mahone]
  • A. Thomas Fairfax
    Thomas Fairfax was a prominent 17th-century English general who led Parliament’s New Model Army to key victories during the English Civil War.
  • B. Henry Wise
    Henry Wise was a prominent late 17th- and early 18th-century English gardener and landscape designer known for shaping formal royal gardens, including those at Hampton Court Palace.
  • C. Henry Bowyer Lane
    Henry Bowyer Lane was a 19th-century architect known for his influential work on prominent Canadian public buildings.
  • D. Irvine Stephens Bulloch
    Irvine Stephens Bulloch was a Confederate naval officer and the uncle of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, known for his service as a commerce raider during the American Civil War.
  • E. Henry A. Wise
    Henry A. Wise was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Virginia and U.S. congressman, known for his influential role in antebellum Southern politics.
  • 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: William Mahone
Triple: [Battle of the Crater, commander, William Mahone]
Generated description
William Mahone was a Confederate major general and former railroad engineer who became notable for his decisive counterattack at the Battle of the Crater during the American Civil War and later served as a U.S. senator from Virginia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Mahone
Target entity description: William Mahone was a Confederate major general and former railroad engineer who became notable for his decisive counterattack at the Battle of the Crater during the American Civil War and later served as a U.S. senator from Virginia.
  • A. Thomas Fairfax
    Thomas Fairfax was a prominent 17th-century English general who led Parliament’s New Model Army to key victories during the English Civil War.
  • B. Henry Wise
    Henry Wise was a prominent late 17th- and early 18th-century English gardener and landscape designer known for shaping formal royal gardens, including those at Hampton Court Palace.
  • C. Henry Bowyer Lane
    Henry Bowyer Lane was a 19th-century architect known for his influential work on prominent Canadian public buildings.
  • D. Irvine Stephens Bulloch
    Irvine Stephens Bulloch was a Confederate naval officer and the uncle of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, known for his service as a commerce raider during the American Civil War.
  • E. Henry A. Wise
    Henry A. Wise was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Virginia and U.S. congressman, known for his influential role in antebellum Southern politics.
  • 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_69ca82c1c0a08190bf8692b4d91a03ca completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb466abfe48190b4eb2f23b1e28668 completed March 31, 2026, 3:58 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ccbf542c388190b99fe4f0c6b7b946 completed April 1, 2026, 6:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ccc312a8608190b899394752ef375f completed April 1, 2026, 7:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ccd83115fc8190a3e276bed0a00926 completed April 1, 2026, 8:32 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:39 p.m.