Triple

T167579
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Siege of Boston E3049 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object William Howe
William Howe was a British Army general who served as commander-in-chief of British forces during the early years of the American Revolutionary War.
E26200 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: William Howe | Statement: [Siege of Boston, commander, William Howe]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Howe
Context triple: [Siege of Boston, commander, William Howe]
  • A. Henry Knox
    Henry Knox was an American Revolutionary War general who served as George Washington’s chief artillery officer and later became the first U.S. Secretary of War.
  • B. Thomas Gage
    Thomas Gage was a British Army general and colonial governor of Massachusetts whose policies and military actions helped spark the American Revolutionary War.
  • C. Horatio Gates
    Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
  • D. Nathanael Greene
    Nathanael Greene was a major American Revolutionary War general who became George Washington’s most trusted subordinate and played a crucial role in the Southern campaign against the British.
  • E. George Armistead
    George Armistead was a U.S. Army officer best known for commanding Fort McHenry during the War of 1812, where the American defense inspired the writing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
  • 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: William Howe
Triple: [Siege of Boston, commander, William Howe]
Generated description
William Howe was a British Army general who served as commander-in-chief of British forces during the early years of the American Revolutionary War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Howe
Target entity description: William Howe was a British Army general who served as commander-in-chief of British forces during the early years of the American Revolutionary War.
  • A. Henry Knox
    Henry Knox was an American Revolutionary War general who served as George Washington’s chief artillery officer and later became the first U.S. Secretary of War.
  • B. Thomas Gage
    Thomas Gage was a British Army general and colonial governor of Massachusetts whose policies and military actions helped spark the American Revolutionary War.
  • C. Horatio Gates
    Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
  • D. Nathanael Greene
    Nathanael Greene was a major American Revolutionary War general who became George Washington’s most trusted subordinate and played a crucial role in the Southern campaign against the British.
  • E. George Armistead
    George Armistead was a U.S. Army officer best known for commanding Fort McHenry during the War of 1812, where the American defense inspired the writing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
  • 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_69a2524ce1e48190ab066bf72859f474 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:26 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25884c8d88190bc4cb4e3541e8116 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:52 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a32bc3efbc8190831cb527c122ac59 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a32d0fbc048190b01b3c2861c78ea3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a32d5b05588190a67be5d0df28763f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 6 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:34 a.m.