Triple

T9784279
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Apache Pass E237453 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Captain Thomas L. Roberts
Captain Thomas L. Roberts was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading Union troops in the 1862 Battle of Apache Pass during the American Civil War in the Southwest.
 E824594 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: Captain Thomas L. Roberts | Statement: [Battle of Apache Pass, commander, Captain Thomas L. Roberts]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Captain Thomas L. Roberts
Context triple: [Battle of Apache Pass, commander, Captain Thomas L. Roberts]
  • A. Captain John H. Miller
    Captain John H. Miller is the fictional World War II U.S. Army officer portrayed by Tom Hanks in "Saving Private Ryan," known for leading a perilous mission to find and bring home Private James Ryan.
  • B. Captain Frederick C. Bock
    Captain Frederick C. Bock was a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot in World War II best known for commanding the B-29 bomber that conducted instrumentation and observation duties during the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
  • C. Captain Charles J. Johnston
    Captain Charles J. Johnston was a 19th-century sea captain best known for charting and bringing to wider attention the remote Pacific outpost now known as Johnston Atoll.
  • D. Captain Thomas Lathrop
    Captain Thomas Lathrop was a colonial militia officer in 17th-century Massachusetts, best known for leading and losing his company in the devastating ambush later called the Battle of Bloody Brook during King Philip’s War.
  • E. Lt. Henry T. Allen
    Lt. Henry T. Allen was a U.S. Army officer and explorer noted for his pioneering 19th-century expeditions in Alaska.
  • 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: Captain Thomas L. Roberts
Triple: [Battle of Apache Pass, commander, Captain Thomas L. Roberts]
Generated description
Captain Thomas L. Roberts was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading Union troops in the 1862 Battle of Apache Pass during the American Civil War in the Southwest.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Captain Thomas L. Roberts
Target entity description: Captain Thomas L. Roberts was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading Union troops in the 1862 Battle of Apache Pass during the American Civil War in the Southwest.
  • A. Captain John H. Miller
    Captain John H. Miller is the fictional World War II U.S. Army officer portrayed by Tom Hanks in "Saving Private Ryan," known for leading a perilous mission to find and bring home Private James Ryan.
  • B. Captain Frederick C. Bock
    Captain Frederick C. Bock was a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot in World War II best known for commanding the B-29 bomber that conducted instrumentation and observation duties during the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
  • C. Captain Charles J. Johnston
    Captain Charles J. Johnston was a 19th-century sea captain best known for charting and bringing to wider attention the remote Pacific outpost now known as Johnston Atoll.
  • D. Captain Thomas Lathrop
    Captain Thomas Lathrop was a colonial militia officer in 17th-century Massachusetts, best known for leading and losing his company in the devastating ambush later called the Battle of Bloody Brook during King Philip’s War.
  • E. Lt. Henry T. Allen
    Lt. Henry T. Allen was a U.S. Army officer and explorer noted for his pioneering 19th-century expeditions in Alaska.
  • 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_69ca84da927881909bda80caecad6010 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cda1b7740c8190bfb4997eb683d78a completed April 1, 2026, 10:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1d5a8564081908b315d2cf68c8e14 completed April 5, 2026, 3:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1d656972881908ca41f7feb0f29c3 completed April 5, 2026, 3:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1d6dc0bd8819082a5ad417ca87a76 completed April 5, 2026, 3:28 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:27 p.m.