Triple

T8400343
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Confederate artillery E198153 entity
Predicate notableCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object John B. Walton
John B. Walton was a Confederate artillery officer best known for commanding the Washington Artillery of New Orleans during the American Civil War.
 E732435 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: John B. Walton | Statement: [Confederate artillery, notableCommander, John B. Walton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John B. Walton
Context triple: [Confederate artillery, notableCommander, John B. Walton]
  • A. J. Tinsley Oden
    J. Tinsley Oden was a pioneering computational and applied mathematician known for his foundational contributions to finite element methods and computational mechanics.
  • B. Robert F. Goheen
    Robert F. Goheen was an American classicist and academic leader best known for serving as the transformative 16th president of Princeton University from 1957 to 1972.
  • C. Michael J. Horton
    Michael J. Horton is a film editor best known for his work on major feature films, including serving on the editing team for "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers."
  • D. John H. Morris
    John H. Morris was a 19th-century American businessman best known as a founder of the major insurance company MetLife.
  • E. Michael B. Green
    Michael B. Green is a British theoretical physicist and pioneer of string theory, renowned for his foundational work on anomaly cancellation and the development of modern superstring theory.
  • 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: John B. Walton
Triple: [Confederate artillery, notableCommander, John B. Walton]
Generated description
John B. Walton was a Confederate artillery officer best known for commanding the Washington Artillery of New Orleans during the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John B. Walton
Target entity description: John B. Walton was a Confederate artillery officer best known for commanding the Washington Artillery of New Orleans during the American Civil War.
  • A. J. Tinsley Oden
    J. Tinsley Oden was a pioneering computational and applied mathematician known for his foundational contributions to finite element methods and computational mechanics.
  • B. Robert F. Goheen
    Robert F. Goheen was an American classicist and academic leader best known for serving as the transformative 16th president of Princeton University from 1957 to 1972.
  • C. Michael J. Horton
    Michael J. Horton is a film editor best known for his work on major feature films, including serving on the editing team for "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers."
  • D. John H. Morris
    John H. Morris was a 19th-century American businessman best known as a founder of the major insurance company MetLife.
  • E. Michael B. Green
    Michael B. Green is a British theoretical physicist and pioneer of string theory, renowned for his foundational work on anomaly cancellation and the development of modern superstring theory.
  • 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_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_69ce02e129bc819081e6ea2dd43becba completed April 2, 2026, 5:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce077f25648190b9a95fb72f5b4f8c completed April 2, 2026, 6:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce08e192088190ad8170b1bedd568d completed April 2, 2026, 6:12 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:04 p.m.