Triple

T1340179
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wilmington insurrection of 1898 E28445 entity
Predicate participant P858 FINISHED
Object Alfred Moore Waddell
Alfred Moore Waddell was a North Carolina lawyer, Confederate veteran, and white supremacist politician who became notorious for leading the violent 1898 coup in Wilmington that overthrew the city’s multiracial government.
E490627 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: Alfred Moore Waddell | Statement: [Wilmington insurrection of 1898, participant, Alfred Moore Waddell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred Moore Waddell
Context triple: [Wilmington insurrection of 1898, participant, Alfred Moore Waddell]
  • A. Gustavus W. Smith
    Gustavus W. Smith was a Confederate major general and briefly acting commander of the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War.
  • B. Thomas S. Tait
    Thomas S. Tait was a prominent Scottish modernist architect known for major public and commercial buildings in the early 20th century, including landmark works in Edinburgh and London.
  • C. Charles D. Norton
    Charles D. Norton was an American figure notable for helping establish the American Cancer Society, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to cancer research and patient support.
  • D. Thomas U. Walter
    Thomas U. Walter was a prominent 19th-century American architect best known for designing the cast-iron dome of the United States Capitol and shaping key federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
  • E. James Ewing
    James Ewing was a pioneering American pathologist and oncologist whose work helped establish cancer research and treatment as a distinct medical discipline.
  • 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: Alfred Moore Waddell
Triple: [Wilmington insurrection of 1898, participant, Alfred Moore Waddell]
Generated description
Alfred Moore Waddell was a North Carolina lawyer, Confederate veteran, and white supremacist politician who became notorious for leading the violent 1898 coup in Wilmington that overthrew the city’s multiracial government.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred Moore Waddell
Target entity description: Alfred Moore Waddell was a North Carolina lawyer, Confederate veteran, and white supremacist politician who became notorious for leading the violent 1898 coup in Wilmington that overthrew the city’s multiracial government.
  • A. Gustavus W. Smith
    Gustavus W. Smith was a Confederate major general and briefly acting commander of the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War.
  • B. Thomas S. Tait
    Thomas S. Tait was a prominent Scottish modernist architect known for major public and commercial buildings in the early 20th century, including landmark works in Edinburgh and London.
  • C. Charles D. Norton
    Charles D. Norton was an American figure notable for helping establish the American Cancer Society, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to cancer research and patient support.
  • D. Thomas U. Walter
    Thomas U. Walter was a prominent 19th-century American architect best known for designing the cast-iron dome of the United States Capitol and shaping key federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
  • E. James Ewing
    James Ewing was a pioneering American pathologist and oncologist whose work helped establish cancer research and treatment as a distinct medical discipline.
  • 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_69a49854eb3481908c7d56b2e449a290 completed March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c21490488190b4281a16c87677d1 completed March 1, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bea45464fc8190933e1347d23eb99b completed March 21, 2026, 1:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bea6c475d48190a33de1ed3fdaf5b1 completed March 21, 2026, 2:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bea718d5588190a927d45fba45c039 completed March 21, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:56 p.m.