Triple

T9277463
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Canadian Cavalry Brigade E222984 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Brigadier-General R. W. Paterson
Brigadier-General R. W. Paterson was a senior Canadian military officer who led the Canadian Cavalry Brigade during the First World War.
 E789275 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: Brigadier-General R. W. Paterson | Statement: [Canadian Cavalry Brigade, commander, Brigadier-General R. W. Paterson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Brigadier-General R. W. Paterson
Context triple: [Canadian Cavalry Brigade, commander, Brigadier-General R. W. Paterson]
  • A. Brigadier-General John Seely
    Brigadier-General John Seely was a British soldier and politician who notably led the Canadian Cavalry Brigade during the First World War.
  • B. Major-General George F. Hopkinson
    Major-General George F. Hopkinson was a British Army officer and airborne warfare pioneer who led elite paratroop and glider forces during the Second World War.
  • C. Brigadier General Powell Clayton
    Brigadier General Powell Clayton was a 19th-century American military officer, Reconstruction-era governor of Arkansas, and later U.S. senator and diplomat.
  • D. Brigadier General J. H. Hobart Ward
    Brigadier General J. H. Hobart Ward was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, best known for leading his brigade in hard fighting at battles such as Gettysburg.
  • E. Colonel George F. James
    Colonel George F. James was a notable figure in California history whose prominence led to the town of Jamestown being named in his honor.
  • 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: Brigadier-General R. W. Paterson
Triple: [Canadian Cavalry Brigade, commander, Brigadier-General R. W. Paterson]
Generated description
Brigadier-General R. W. Paterson was a senior Canadian military officer who led the Canadian Cavalry Brigade during the First World War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Brigadier-General R. W. Paterson
Target entity description: Brigadier-General R. W. Paterson was a senior Canadian military officer who led the Canadian Cavalry Brigade during the First World War.
  • A. Brigadier-General John Seely
    Brigadier-General John Seely was a British soldier and politician who notably led the Canadian Cavalry Brigade during the First World War.
  • B. Major-General George F. Hopkinson
    Major-General George F. Hopkinson was a British Army officer and airborne warfare pioneer who led elite paratroop and glider forces during the Second World War.
  • C. Brigadier General Powell Clayton
    Brigadier General Powell Clayton was a 19th-century American military officer, Reconstruction-era governor of Arkansas, and later U.S. senator and diplomat.
  • D. Brigadier General J. H. Hobart Ward
    Brigadier General J. H. Hobart Ward was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, best known for leading his brigade in hard fighting at battles such as Gettysburg.
  • E. Colonel George F. James
    Colonel George F. James was a notable figure in California history whose prominence led to the town of Jamestown being named in his honor.
  • 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_69ca842123588190b3f2e1a69037d141 completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd07c95a98819098528b7ada37ddc1 completed April 1, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d0b1fef1508190a9bf1a55dd39c0ac completed April 4, 2026, 6:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d0b2e45674819091c7e1102c8844a5 completed April 4, 2026, 6:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d0b36590088190a92401d5f6c4c947 completed April 4, 2026, 6:44 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:34 p.m.