Triple

T1033561
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pulitzer Prize for History E22306 entity
Predicate notableWinner P2766 FINISHED
Object James M. McPherson
James M. McPherson is a prominent American Civil War historian and author, best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning book "Battle Cry of Freedom."
E120029 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: James M. McPherson | Statement: [Pulitzer Prize for History, notableWinner, James M. McPherson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James M. McPherson
Context triple: [Pulitzer Prize for History, notableWinner, James M. McPherson]
  • A. Charles A. Halleck
    Charles A. Halleck was a prominent mid-20th-century Republican congressman from Indiana who served as a key party leader in the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • B. Benjamin F. Butler
    Benjamin F. Butler was a controversial 19th-century American politician and Union Civil War general known for his aggressive Radical Republican stance and prominent role in Reconstruction-era legal and political battles.
  • C. Robert S. Garnett
    Robert S. Garnett was an American artist best known for creating the original design of the Great Seal of the State of California.
  • D. George B. McClellan Jr.
    George B. McClellan Jr. was an American Democratic politician who served as mayor of New York City from 1904 to 1909 and later became a historian and professor at Princeton University.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: James M. McPherson
Triple: [Pulitzer Prize for History, notableWinner, James M. McPherson]
Generated description
James M. McPherson is a prominent American Civil War historian and author, best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning book "Battle Cry of Freedom."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James M. McPherson
Target entity description: James M. McPherson is a prominent American Civil War historian and author, best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning book "Battle Cry of Freedom."
  • A. Charles A. Halleck
    Charles A. Halleck was a prominent mid-20th-century Republican congressman from Indiana who served as a key party leader in the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • B. Benjamin F. Butler
    Benjamin F. Butler was a controversial 19th-century American politician and Union Civil War general known for his aggressive Radical Republican stance and prominent role in Reconstruction-era legal and political battles.
  • C. Robert S. Garnett
    Robert S. Garnett was an American artist best known for creating the original design of the Great Seal of the State of California.
  • D. George B. McClellan Jr.
    George B. McClellan Jr. was an American Democratic politician who served as mayor of New York City from 1904 to 1909 and later became a historian and professor at Princeton University.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69a493d848848190aed4011b34b2e8d3 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b812c9948190a37c2b1d3d32ea38 completed March 1, 2026, 10:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac3bc15a6c81909a71bf17b5cd4019 completed March 7, 2026, 2:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac3c7d16748190a95aaffd04a867b3 completed March 7, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac3ce827b88190a5de06c695ad4ecb completed March 7, 2026, 2:57 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.