Triple

T941026
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mary Anna Custis Lee E20304 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Robert E. Lee Jr.
Robert E. Lee Jr. was the son of Confederate General Robert E. Lee who served as a Confederate officer during the American Civil War and later became a planter and author.
 E116812 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: Robert E. Lee Jr. | Statement: [Mary Anna Custis Lee, child, Robert E. Lee Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert E. Lee Jr.
Context triple: [Mary Anna Custis Lee, child, Robert E. Lee Jr.]
  • A. Robert E. Lee
    Robert E. Lee was a prominent 19th-century American military officer best known as the leading Confederate general during the American Civil War.
  • B. William Henry Fitzhugh Lee
    William Henry Fitzhugh Lee was a Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War and the second son of General Robert E. Lee.
  • C. Jeb Stuart Magruder
    Jeb Stuart Magruder was a Republican political operative and Nixon administration official best known for his role in the Watergate scandal and involvement with the Committee to Re-elect the President.
  • D. Stonewall Jackson
    Stonewall Jackson was a renowned Confederate general celebrated for his tactical brilliance and pivotal battlefield leadership during the American Civil War.
  • E. James Longstreet
    James Longstreet was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War, best known as one of Robert E. Lee’s most trusted corps commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia.
  • 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: Robert E. Lee Jr.
Triple: [Mary Anna Custis Lee, child, Robert E. Lee Jr.]
Generated description
Robert E. Lee Jr. was the son of Confederate General Robert E. Lee who served as a Confederate officer during the American Civil War and later became a planter and author.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert E. Lee Jr.
Target entity description: Robert E. Lee Jr. was the son of Confederate General Robert E. Lee who served as a Confederate officer during the American Civil War and later became a planter and author.
  • A. Robert E. Lee
    Robert E. Lee was a prominent 19th-century American military officer best known as the leading Confederate general during the American Civil War.
  • B. William Henry Fitzhugh Lee
    William Henry Fitzhugh Lee was a Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War and the second son of General Robert E. Lee.
  • C. Jeb Stuart Magruder
    Jeb Stuart Magruder was a Republican political operative and Nixon administration official best known for his role in the Watergate scandal and involvement with the Committee to Re-elect the President.
  • D. Stonewall Jackson
    Stonewall Jackson was a renowned Confederate general celebrated for his tactical brilliance and pivotal battlefield leadership during the American Civil War.
  • E. James Longstreet
    James Longstreet was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War, best known as one of Robert E. Lee’s most trusted corps commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia.
  • 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_69a493b0270c81909e6c9ce310f6aa55 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b38cc6888190b1d9043ec8fbcbc3 completed March 1, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac258152cc8190a24456aefd58f19c completed March 7, 2026, 1:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac262d13248190a6e9ae3c3c6d2547 completed March 7, 2026, 1:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac269165b481909a2fd580c0bf1a70 completed March 7, 2026, 1:22 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.