Triple

T12338387
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of McDowell E294152 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Robert C. Schenck
Robert C. Schenck was a Union Army general and later U.S. congressman and diplomat who played a notable role in the American Civil War.
 E994191 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: Robert C. Schenck | Statement: [Battle of McDowell, commander, Robert C. Schenck]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert C. Schenck
Context triple: [Battle of McDowell, commander, Robert C. Schenck]
  • A. Benjamin Schenck
    Benjamin Schenck was a mycologist known for first identifying and describing the pathogenic fungus Sporothrix.
  • B. William B. Franke
    William B. Franke was a United States businessman and public official who served as Secretary of the Navy during the Eisenhower administration.
  • C. Frank J. Goodnow
    Frank J. Goodnow was an influential American political scientist and educator, often regarded as a founder of modern public administration in the United States.
  • D. Isaac W. Bernheim
    Isaac W. Bernheim was a German-born American distiller and philanthropist best known for founding the I. W. Harper bourbon brand and establishing the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest in Kentucky.
  • E. Edward A. Ross
    Edward A. Ross was an American sociologist and progressive-era reformer known for pioneering work in social control theory and for helping establish sociology as an academic discipline in the United States.
  • 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: Robert C. Schenck
Triple: [Battle of McDowell, commander, Robert C. Schenck]
Generated description
Robert C. Schenck was a Union Army general and later U.S. congressman and diplomat who played a notable role in the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert C. Schenck
Target entity description: Robert C. Schenck was a Union Army general and later U.S. congressman and diplomat who played a notable role in the American Civil War.
  • A. Benjamin Schenck
    Benjamin Schenck was a mycologist known for first identifying and describing the pathogenic fungus Sporothrix.
  • B. William B. Franke
    William B. Franke was a United States businessman and public official who served as Secretary of the Navy during the Eisenhower administration.
  • C. Frank J. Goodnow
    Frank J. Goodnow was an influential American political scientist and educator, often regarded as a founder of modern public administration in the United States.
  • D. Isaac W. Bernheim
    Isaac W. Bernheim was a German-born American distiller and philanthropist best known for founding the I. W. Harper bourbon brand and establishing the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest in Kentucky.
  • E. Edward A. Ross
    Edward A. Ross was an American sociologist and progressive-era reformer known for pioneering work in social control theory and for helping establish sociology as an academic discipline in the United States.
  • 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_69d6ab6ae0dc8190b1522a9c1c55c114 completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d93f678698819091462b44ff3435f6 completed April 10, 2026, 6:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f66854281c8190bd8d21d501cddb89 completed May 2, 2026, 9:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f669527fe881909baeb84ccff506c8 completed May 2, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f669fe4bc48190adba50ad58b10c45 completed May 2, 2026, 9:17 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:53 p.m.