Triple

T1675980
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr. E36231 entity
Predicate participatedIn P149 FINISHED
Object Battle of Fort Donelson
The Battle of Fort Donelson was a pivotal American Civil War engagement in February 1862 that secured Union control of key Tennessee waterways and propelled Ulysses S. Grant to national prominence.
E147529 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: Battle of Fort Donelson | Statement: [Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr., participatedIn, Battle of Fort Donelson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Fort Donelson
Context triple: [Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr., participatedIn, Battle of Fort Donelson]
  • A. Fort Donelson campaign
    The Fort Donelson campaign was a major early Union offensive in the American Civil War that secured key Confederate forts in Tennessee, opened vital rivers for Northern advances, and elevated Ulysses S. Grant to national prominence.
  • B. Battle of Port Hudson
    The Battle of Port Hudson was a major American Civil War siege in Louisiana where Union forces sought to secure control of the Mississippi River by capturing a key Confederate stronghold.
  • C. Siege of Vicksburg
    The Siege of Vicksburg was a pivotal 1863 Union campaign in the American Civil War that secured control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in two.
  • D. Battle of Shiloh
    The Battle of Shiloh was a major early American Civil War clash in April 1862 in southwestern Tennessee, marked by heavy casualties and a hard-fought Union victory that foreshadowed the war’s bloody scale.
  • E. Battle of Mobile Bay
    The Battle of Mobile Bay was a major American Civil War naval engagement in 1864, famous for Admiral David Farragut’s bold attack that sealed one of the Confederacy’s last major Gulf ports.
  • 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: Battle of Fort Donelson
Triple: [Simon Bolivar Buckner Sr., participatedIn, Battle of Fort Donelson]
Generated description
The Battle of Fort Donelson was a pivotal American Civil War engagement in February 1862 that secured Union control of key Tennessee waterways and propelled Ulysses S. Grant to national prominence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Fort Donelson
Target entity description: The Battle of Fort Donelson was a pivotal American Civil War engagement in February 1862 that secured Union control of key Tennessee waterways and propelled Ulysses S. Grant to national prominence.
  • A. Fort Donelson campaign chosen
    The Fort Donelson campaign was a major early Union offensive in the American Civil War that secured key Confederate forts in Tennessee, opened vital rivers for Northern advances, and elevated Ulysses S. Grant to national prominence.
  • B. Battle of Port Hudson
    The Battle of Port Hudson was a major American Civil War siege in Louisiana where Union forces sought to secure control of the Mississippi River by capturing a key Confederate stronghold.
  • C. Siege of Vicksburg
    The Siege of Vicksburg was a pivotal 1863 Union campaign in the American Civil War that secured control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in two.
  • D. Battle of Shiloh
    The Battle of Shiloh was a major early American Civil War clash in April 1862 in southwestern Tennessee, marked by heavy casualties and a hard-fought Union victory that foreshadowed the war’s bloody scale.
  • E. Battle of Mobile Bay
    The Battle of Mobile Bay was a major American Civil War naval engagement in 1864, famous for Admiral David Farragut’s bold attack that sealed one of the Confederacy’s last major Gulf ports.
  • F. None of above.

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_69a886139ed081909af0940aa9313512 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa625cb1a08190bf7b138c5bfb90b2 completed March 6, 2026, 5:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad8ac15c3c8190ba730217efd69a77 completed March 8, 2026, 2:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad9575acf88190aa3fe80794534dd4 completed March 8, 2026, 3:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad97a7128c819097ff36216f00d4f9 completed March 8, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.