Triple

T8336592
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Boydton Plank Road E195802 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object Battle of Burgess Mill
The Battle of Burgess Mill was an 1864 American Civil War engagement near Petersburg, Virginia, in which Union forces attempted to cut a key Confederate supply route along the Boydton Plank Road.
E736998 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: Battle of Burgess Mill | Statement: [Battle of Boydton Plank Road, alsoKnownAs, Battle of Burgess Mill]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Burgess Mill
Context triple: [Battle of Boydton Plank Road, alsoKnownAs, Battle of Burgess Mill]
  • A. Battle of Cook’s Mills
    The Battle of Cook’s Mills was a late-1814 engagement in the War of 1812 in which British and Canadian forces successfully blocked an American advance in the Niagara Peninsula.
  • B. Battle of Big Bethel
    The Battle of Big Bethel was an early American Civil War engagement in June 1861 in Virginia, notable as one of the first land battles of the conflict and a Confederate victory.
  • C. Battle of Lewis’s Farm
    The Battle of Lewis’s Farm was a late-March 1865 engagement in the American Civil War in which Union forces pushed back Confederate lines near Petersburg, Virginia, helping set the stage for the collapse of Robert E. Lee’s army.
  • D. Battle of Stillman’s Run
    The Battle of Stillman’s Run was an 1832 skirmish in Illinois during the Black Hawk War, notable for a panicked retreat by Illinois militia forces after a clash with Sauk leader Black Hawk’s warriors.
  • E. Battle of White Oak Road
    The Battle of White Oak Road was a late–Civil War engagement in March 1865 near Petersburg, Virginia, in which Union forces pushed back Confederate lines, helping to set the stage for the fall of Petersburg and the surrender at Appomattox.
  • 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: Battle of Burgess Mill
Triple: [Battle of Boydton Plank Road, alsoKnownAs, Battle of Burgess Mill]
Generated description
The Battle of Burgess Mill was an 1864 American Civil War engagement near Petersburg, Virginia, in which Union forces attempted to cut a key Confederate supply route along the Boydton Plank Road.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Burgess Mill
Target entity description: The Battle of Burgess Mill was an 1864 American Civil War engagement near Petersburg, Virginia, in which Union forces attempted to cut a key Confederate supply route along the Boydton Plank Road.
  • A. Battle of Cook’s Mills
    The Battle of Cook’s Mills was a late-1814 engagement in the War of 1812 in which British and Canadian forces successfully blocked an American advance in the Niagara Peninsula.
  • B. Battle of Big Bethel
    The Battle of Big Bethel was an early American Civil War engagement in June 1861 in Virginia, notable as one of the first land battles of the conflict and a Confederate victory.
  • C. Battle of Lewis’s Farm
    The Battle of Lewis’s Farm was a late-March 1865 engagement in the American Civil War in which Union forces pushed back Confederate lines near Petersburg, Virginia, helping set the stage for the collapse of Robert E. Lee’s army.
  • D. Battle of Stillman’s Run
    The Battle of Stillman’s Run was an 1832 skirmish in Illinois during the Black Hawk War, notable for a panicked retreat by Illinois militia forces after a clash with Sauk leader Black Hawk’s warriors.
  • E. Battle of White Oak Road
    The Battle of White Oak Road was a late–Civil War engagement in March 1865 near Petersburg, Virginia, in which Union forces pushed back Confederate lines, helping to set the stage for the fall of Petersburg and the surrender at Appomattox.
  • 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_69ca82ecbdc481908a55cad8ca062d88 completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb7fd3fc80819097b326119107ad4d completed March 31, 2026, 8:03 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce394f782881908310d7ca1b7dc36c completed April 2, 2026, 9:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce3ad9a3a88190929a6c6ae7ee58cf completed April 2, 2026, 9:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce3cc54d888190ae86b787afc38f7b completed April 2, 2026, 9:54 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:57 p.m.