Triple

T9940179
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Lewis’s Farm E194057 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object Petersburg fortifications
The Petersburg fortifications were an extensive network of Confederate defensive earthworks and trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, that played a central role in the prolonged siege operations of the American Civil War.
E830596 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: Petersburg fortifications | Statement: [Battle of Lewis’s Farm, associatedWith, Petersburg fortifications]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Petersburg fortifications
Context triple: [Battle of Lewis’s Farm, associatedWith, Petersburg fortifications]
  • A. Fort Ward
    Fort Ward is a historic waterfront neighborhood and former military installation on Bainbridge Island in Washington State.
  • B. Fort Saint-Nicolas
    Fort Saint-Nicolas is a historic 17th-century military fortress in Marseille, France, built to protect the city and its harbor and now recognized as a significant cultural monument.
  • C. Fort Macon
    Fort Macon is a 19th-century coastal defense fortification in North Carolina, built as part of the United States’ Third System of seacoast defenses and now preserved as a state park and historic site.
  • D. Old Point Comfort
    Old Point Comfort is a historic strategic promontory at the mouth of Hampton Roads in southeastern Virginia, long used as a coastal defense site and navigational landmark.
  • E. Fort St. Philip
    Fort St. Philip is a historic coastal fortification in Louisiana that played a key defensive role in multiple American conflicts, including the War of 1812 and the Civil War.
  • 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: Petersburg fortifications
Triple: [Battle of Lewis’s Farm, associatedWith, Petersburg fortifications]
Generated description
The Petersburg fortifications were an extensive network of Confederate defensive earthworks and trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, that played a central role in the prolonged siege operations of the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Petersburg fortifications
Target entity description: The Petersburg fortifications were an extensive network of Confederate defensive earthworks and trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, that played a central role in the prolonged siege operations of the American Civil War.
  • A. Fort Ward
    Fort Ward is a historic waterfront neighborhood and former military installation on Bainbridge Island in Washington State.
  • B. Fort Saint-Nicolas
    Fort Saint-Nicolas is a historic 17th-century military fortress in Marseille, France, built to protect the city and its harbor and now recognized as a significant cultural monument.
  • C. Fort Macon
    Fort Macon is a 19th-century coastal defense fortification in North Carolina, built as part of the United States’ Third System of seacoast defenses and now preserved as a state park and historic site.
  • D. Old Point Comfort
    Old Point Comfort is a historic strategic promontory at the mouth of Hampton Roads in southeastern Virginia, long used as a coastal defense site and navigational landmark.
  • E. Fort St. Philip
    Fort St. Philip was a strategically vital British-held fortress on the island of Menorca that played a central role in Mediterranean naval conflicts, including the Battle of Minorca in 1756.
  • 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_69ca82e409348190a393777356b80a2a completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb60f4ffc8190bfe916bb4a7bf5c5 completed April 2, 2026, 12:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d229080d0081908b66b9c4166db252 completed April 5, 2026, 9:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d22a07d4088190b19b4529c0a56f8d completed April 5, 2026, 9:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d22b37ce8481909a52a144605d44a4 completed April 5, 2026, 9:28 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:44 p.m.