Triple
T8598890
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Buford |
E203622
|
entity |
| Predicate | militaryBranch |
P253
|
FINISHED |
| Object | United States Army pre–Civil War |
E396244
|
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: United States Army pre–Civil War | Statement: [John Buford, militaryBranch, United States Army pre–Civil War]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States Army pre–Civil War Context triple: [John Buford, militaryBranch, United States Army pre–Civil War]
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A.
Federal Army
The Federal Army, more commonly known as the Union Army, was the land force that fought for the Northern states of the United States during the American Civil War.
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B.
United States Army regulars
chosen
The United States Army regulars were the professional, full-time soldiers of the U.S. Army who formed the core federal military force engaged in frontier conflicts and other 19th-century campaigns.
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C.
United States Army and Navy
The United States Army and Navy are the principal land and sea warfare branches of the U.S. Armed Forces, historically central to the country's military operations and international defense agreements.
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D.
United States frontier army
The United States frontier army was the branch of the U.S. military responsible for protecting and expanding the nation’s western frontier through garrison duty, exploration, and conflicts with Native American tribes during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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E.
First United States Army
The First United States Army is a major field army formation of the U.S. Army that played a key role in European operations during World War II, including the Battle of the Bulge.
- 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_69ca832b56948190ba751cec255308f1 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cc46cc8b2081909c6aa45f8656f2ad |
completed | March 31, 2026, 10:12 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cea8dd86d08190a7f8e674e16dd8b6 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 5:35 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:24 p.m.