Triple
T8400265
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Confederate cavalry |
E198152
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableCommander |
P1197
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Earl Van Dorn |
E165033
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Earl Van Dorn | Statement: [Confederate cavalry, notableCommander, Earl Van Dorn]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Earl Van Dorn Context triple: [Confederate cavalry, notableCommander, Earl Van Dorn]
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A.
Earl Van Dorn
chosen
Earl Van Dorn was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, known for his aggressive cavalry raids and controversial battlefield leadership in the Western Theater.
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B.
William J. Hardee
William J. Hardee was a career U.S. Army officer and later Confederate lieutenant general best known for authoring a widely used infantry tactics manual before and during the American Civil War.
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C.
Gideon J. Pillow
Gideon J. Pillow was a controversial American lawyer, politician, and general who served in both the Mexican–American War and the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
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D.
Patrick Cleburne
Patrick Cleburne was an Irish-born Confederate major general in the American Civil War, renowned for his tactical skill and his controversial proposal to arm enslaved people in exchange for their freedom.
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E.
Edmund Kirby Smith
Edmund Kirby Smith was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War who commanded the Trans-Mississippi Department and was one of the last Confederate leaders to surrender.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca82f816bc8190ab321c07d72208c1 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cb824bfcbc8190b26bfcb5f8c4777c |
completed | March 31, 2026, 8:14 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cde86f6e148190812a8a9737310501 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 3:54 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:04 p.m.