Triple

T10822857
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Port Republic E255418 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Erastus B. Tyler
Erastus B. Tyler was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in several key engagements in the Shenandoah Valley and beyond.
E891622 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: Erastus B. Tyler | Statement: [Battle of Port Republic, commander, Erastus B. Tyler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Erastus B. Tyler
Context triple: [Battle of Port Republic, commander, Erastus B. Tyler]
  • A. Elias B. Caldwell
    Elias B. Caldwell was an early 19th-century American lawyer and reformer best known as a founding figure of the American Colonization Society, which promoted the resettlement of free African Americans to Africa.
  • B. Edwin A. Stevens
    Edwin A. Stevens was a 19th-century American engineer, inventor, and philanthropist from the prominent Stevens family, best known for advancing steam transportation and supporting technical education.
  • C. Simeon E. Baldwin
    Simeon E. Baldwin was an American jurist, legal scholar, and governor of Connecticut who played a key role in shaping legal education and public life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. William P. Van Ness
    William P. Van Ness was an American lawyer, judge, and close ally of Aaron Burr who notably served as Burr’s second in the famous 1804 duel with Alexander Hamilton.
  • E. Lyman G. Bloomingdale
    Lyman G. Bloomingdale was an American businessman and co-founder of the iconic Bloomingdale’s department store, which became a landmark in New York City retail.
  • 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: Erastus B. Tyler
Triple: [Battle of Port Republic, commander, Erastus B. Tyler]
Generated description
Erastus B. Tyler was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in several key engagements in the Shenandoah Valley and beyond.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Erastus B. Tyler
Target entity description: Erastus B. Tyler was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in several key engagements in the Shenandoah Valley and beyond.
  • A. Elias B. Caldwell
    Elias B. Caldwell was an early 19th-century American lawyer and reformer best known as a founding figure of the American Colonization Society, which promoted the resettlement of free African Americans to Africa.
  • B. Edwin A. Stevens
    Edwin A. Stevens was a 19th-century American engineer, inventor, and philanthropist from the prominent Stevens family, best known for advancing steam transportation and supporting technical education.
  • C. Simeon E. Baldwin
    Simeon E. Baldwin was an American jurist, legal scholar, and governor of Connecticut who played a key role in shaping legal education and public life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. William P. Van Ness
    William P. Van Ness was an American lawyer, judge, and close ally of Aaron Burr who notably served as Burr’s second in the famous 1804 duel with Alexander Hamilton.
  • E. Lyman G. Bloomingdale
    Lyman G. Bloomingdale was an American businessman and co-founder of the iconic Bloomingdale’s department store, which became a landmark in New York City retail.
  • 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_69d6aa8081448190a9324184f2bd1c26 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7344c551c8190a7491d468b8a4a04 completed April 9, 2026, 5:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e154a582188190af96ae0d5cc08dc4 completed April 16, 2026, 9:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e1739ed9b88190949125759f42efd2 completed April 16, 2026, 11:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e175ecef0c8190b08052d751f1a608 completed April 16, 2026, 11:51 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:18 p.m.