Triple

T9417070
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shenandoah Valley campaigns of the American Civil War E227051 entity
Predicate UnionCommander1864 P26185 FINISHED
Object Ulysses S. Grant (overall Union commander)
Ulysses S. Grant was the leading Union general of the American Civil War who orchestrated the final campaigns that defeated the Confederacy and later became the 18th president of the United States.
E798282 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Ulysses S. Grant (overall Union commander) | Statement: [Shenandoah Valley campaigns of the American Civil War, UnionCommander1864, Ulysses S. Grant (overall Union commander)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ulysses S. Grant (overall Union commander)
Context triple: [Shenandoah Valley campaigns of the American Civil War, UnionCommander1864, Ulysses S. Grant (overall Union commander)]
  • A. William Tecumseh Sherman
    William Tecumseh Sherman was a prominent Union general in the American Civil War, best known for his "March to the Sea" and his strategy of total war against the Confederacy.
  • B. Thomas W. Sherman
    Thomas W. Sherman was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, noted for leading significant operations in the Western Theater.
  • C. Frederick Dent Grant
    Frederick Dent Grant was an American military officer and diplomat who served as a general in the U.S. Army and the eldest son of President Ulysses S. Grant.
  • D. Samuel Simpson Grant
    Samuel Simpson Grant was a member of the Simpson–Grant family connected to U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant through his mother, Hannah Simpson Grant.
  • E. Guy Levis Grant
    Guy Levis Grant was an American dentist and educator best known as one of the ten founders of the historically Black fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi.
  • 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: Ulysses S. Grant (overall Union commander)
Triple: [Shenandoah Valley campaigns of the American Civil War, UnionCommander1864, Ulysses S. Grant (overall Union commander)]
Generated description
Ulysses S. Grant was the leading Union general of the American Civil War who orchestrated the final campaigns that defeated the Confederacy and later became the 18th president of the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ulysses S. Grant (overall Union commander)
Target entity description: Ulysses S. Grant was the leading Union general of the American Civil War who orchestrated the final campaigns that defeated the Confederacy and later became the 18th president of the United States.
  • A. William Tecumseh Sherman
    William Tecumseh Sherman was a prominent Union general in the American Civil War, best known for his "March to the Sea" and his strategy of total war against the Confederacy.
  • B. Thomas W. Sherman
    Thomas W. Sherman was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, noted for leading significant operations in the Western Theater.
  • C. Frederick Dent Grant
    Frederick Dent Grant was an American military officer and diplomat who served as a general in the U.S. Army and the eldest son of President Ulysses S. Grant.
  • D. Samuel Simpson Grant
    Samuel Simpson Grant was a member of the Simpson–Grant family connected to U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant through his mother, Hannah Simpson Grant.
  • E. Guy Levis Grant
    Guy Levis Grant was an American dentist and educator best known as one of the ten founders of the historically Black fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: UnionCommander1864
Context triple: [Shenandoah Valley campaigns of the American Civil War, UnionCommander1864, Ulysses S. Grant (overall Union commander)]
  • A. commandingUnionArmy chosen
    Indicates that one entity holds the role or responsibility of leading and directing the Union Army.
  • B. commanderAtGettysburg
    Indicates that the subject served as a military commander at the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • C. primaryConfederateCommander
    Indicates that one entity serves as the main commanding officer of Confederate forces for the other entity in a specific context or engagement.
  • D. commandingConfederateForces
    Indicates that one entity holds the role or responsibility of directing and leading the military operations of the Confederate forces in relation to another entity.
  • E. armyCommanderAtGettysburg
    Indicates that the person served as an army commander during the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69ca84359e7c819091148ba4b670e436 completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd68cb4be08190a47f901a9703f9db completed April 1, 2026, 6:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d107bfd73481908e07d0ee2774bd59 completed April 4, 2026, 12:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1085a980c8190b4c6d811b07ab180 completed April 4, 2026, 12:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1093f440481909aa27287019191ac completed April 4, 2026, 12:51 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69cca54c37f88190bddccf28e5fe5c84 completed April 1, 2026, 4:55 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:48 p.m.