Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thornton Affair E276646 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object Thornton Skirmish
The Thornton Skirmish was an 1846 clash between Mexican and U.S. troops near the Rio Grande that helped trigger the Mexican–American War.
E937468 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: Thornton Skirmish | Statement: [Thornton Affair, alsoKnownAs, Thornton Skirmish]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thornton Skirmish
Context triple: [Thornton Affair, alsoKnownAs, Thornton Skirmish]
  • A. Battle of Tumbledown Mountain
    The Battle of Tumbledown Mountain was a key night engagement during the 1982 Falklands War in which British forces captured strategic high ground from Argentine troops near Port Stanley.
  • B. North Bridge skirmish
    The North Bridge skirmish was an early and pivotal clash between colonial militia and British troops on April 19, 1775, marking the start of open armed conflict in the American Revolutionary War.
  • C. Battle of Round Mountain
    The Battle of Round Mountain was an early American Civil War engagement in Indian Territory, notable for involving Native American forces divided in their loyalties between the Union and the Confederacy.
  • D. Battle of Briar Creek
    The Battle of Briar Creek was a 1779 American Revolutionary War engagement in Georgia in which British forces routed a Continental Army detachment, helping to reassert British control over the state.
  • E. Battle of Bloody Run
    The Battle of Bloody Run was a 1763 clash near Fort Detroit during Pontiac’s War, where Native American forces ambushed and inflicted heavy casualties on a British detachment.
  • 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: Thornton Skirmish
Triple: [Thornton Affair, alsoKnownAs, Thornton Skirmish]
Generated description
The Thornton Skirmish was an 1846 clash between Mexican and U.S. troops near the Rio Grande that helped trigger the Mexican–American War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thornton Skirmish
Target entity description: The Thornton Skirmish was an 1846 clash between Mexican and U.S. troops near the Rio Grande that helped trigger the Mexican–American War.
  • A. Battle of Tumbledown Mountain
    The Battle of Tumbledown Mountain was a key night engagement during the 1982 Falklands War in which British forces captured strategic high ground from Argentine troops near Port Stanley.
  • B. North Bridge skirmish
    The North Bridge skirmish was an early and pivotal clash between colonial militia and British troops on April 19, 1775, marking the start of open armed conflict in the American Revolutionary War.
  • C. Battle of Round Mountain
    The Battle of Round Mountain was an early American Civil War engagement in Indian Territory, notable for involving Native American forces divided in their loyalties between the Union and the Confederacy.
  • D. Battle of Briar Creek
    The Battle of Briar Creek was a 1779 American Revolutionary War engagement in Georgia in which British forces routed a Continental Army detachment, helping to reassert British control over the state.
  • E. Battle of Bloody Run
    The Battle of Bloody Run was a 1763 clash near Fort Detroit during Pontiac’s War, where Native American forces ambushed and inflicted heavy casualties on a British detachment.
  • 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_69d6aafa51148190ab84940694c00235 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a260ab488190ab1c00d9850f3096 completed April 10, 2026, 7:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ee87deb3888190842bd61efd7b3989 completed April 26, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69eeb31438f88190bab71212293f2d2e completed April 27, 2026, 12:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69eecd954b348190bf2f3ad66acbf1b7 completed April 27, 2026, 2:44 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:39 p.m.