Triple

T1192943
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Siege of Petersburg E25602 entity
Predicate majorEngagement P1700 FINISHED
Object Third Battle of Petersburg
The Third Battle of Petersburg was the decisive Union assault in April 1865 that broke Confederate defenses around Petersburg, leading directly to the fall of Richmond and the endgame of the American Civil War.
E201764 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: Third Battle of Petersburg | Statement: [Siege of Petersburg, majorEngagement, Third Battle of Petersburg]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Third Battle of Petersburg
Context triple: [Siege of Petersburg, majorEngagement, Third Battle of Petersburg]
  • A. Second Battle of Petersburg
    The Second Battle of Petersburg was a key June 1864 American Civil War clash in Virginia in which failed Union assaults against Confederate defenses led directly to the prolonged Siege of Petersburg.
  • B. Siege of Petersburg
    The Siege of Petersburg was a prolonged series of trench warfare operations in 1864–1865 around Petersburg, Virginia, whose eventual Union victory cut off Confederate supply lines and led directly to the fall of Richmond and the end of the American Civil War.
  • C. Battle of Cold Harbor
    The Battle of Cold Harbor was a major and notoriously bloody 1864 Civil War engagement near Richmond, Virginia, in which Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee repelled repeated Union assaults during Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign.
  • D. Richmond–Petersburg Campaign
    The Richmond–Petersburg Campaign was a prolonged series of American Civil War battles in 1864–1865 in which Union forces sought to cut off and capture the Confederate strongholds of Richmond and Petersburg, leading directly to the collapse of the Confederacy.
  • E. Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
    The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House was a major and brutal engagement of the American Civil War’s Overland Campaign in May 1864, marked by intense trench warfare and heavy casualties between Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee.
  • 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: Third Battle of Petersburg
Triple: [Siege of Petersburg, majorEngagement, Third Battle of Petersburg]
Generated description
The Third Battle of Petersburg was the decisive Union assault in April 1865 that broke Confederate defenses around Petersburg, leading directly to the fall of Richmond and the endgame of the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Third Battle of Petersburg
Target entity description: The Third Battle of Petersburg was the decisive Union assault in April 1865 that broke Confederate defenses around Petersburg, leading directly to the fall of Richmond and the endgame of the American Civil War.
  • A. Second Battle of Petersburg
    The Second Battle of Petersburg was a key June 1864 American Civil War clash in Virginia in which failed Union assaults against Confederate defenses led directly to the prolonged Siege of Petersburg.
  • B. Siege of Petersburg
    The Siege of Petersburg was a prolonged series of trench warfare operations in 1864–1865 around Petersburg, Virginia, whose eventual Union victory cut off Confederate supply lines and led directly to the fall of Richmond and the end of the American Civil War.
  • C. Battle of Cold Harbor
    The Battle of Cold Harbor was a major and notoriously bloody 1864 Civil War engagement near Richmond, Virginia, in which Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee repelled repeated Union assaults during Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign.
  • D. Richmond–Petersburg Campaign
    The Richmond–Petersburg Campaign was a prolonged series of American Civil War battles in 1864–1865 in which Union forces sought to cut off and capture the Confederate strongholds of Richmond and Petersburg, leading directly to the collapse of the Confederacy.
  • E. Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
    The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House was a major and brutal engagement of the American Civil War’s Overland Campaign in May 1864, marked by intense trench warfare and heavy casualties between Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee.
  • 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_69a49429f5ec8190a6a205eb0ae81e5e completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bf15423481909cb3e661e58d3d94 completed March 1, 2026, 10:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adb5ac8a2481908394095e9a6edc6a completed March 8, 2026, 5:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adb8b2b01c8190997179cdfd55da13 completed March 8, 2026, 5:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adb94aaf348190a28ca8e9d9cacf41 completed March 8, 2026, 6 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.