Triple

T16977307
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Hampton Roads E411845 entity
Predicate precededBy P97 FINISHED
Object Union blockade of Confederate ports E391304 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Union blockade of Confederate ports | Statement: [Battle of Hampton Roads, precededBy, Union blockade of Confederate ports]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Union blockade of Confederate ports
Context triple: [Battle of Hampton Roads, precededBy, Union blockade of Confederate ports]
  • A. Union blockade of the Confederacy chosen
    The Union blockade of the Confederacy was a comprehensive naval strategy by the United States during the American Civil War aimed at crippling the Southern economy by preventing the export of cotton and the import of war supplies.
  • B. U.S. naval blockade of Santiago de Cuba
    The U.S. naval blockade of Santiago de Cuba was a key Spanish–American War operation in 1898 in which American warships sealed off the Cuban port to trap the Spanish fleet and pave the way for subsequent landings and battles.
  • C. Bombardment of Fort Sumter
    The Bombardment of Fort Sumter was the April 1861 Confederate artillery attack on a U.S. fort in Charleston Harbor that triggered the start of the American Civil War.
  • D. South Atlantic Blockading theater
    The South Atlantic Blockading theater was the Civil War naval operations area along the southeastern coast of the United States where Union forces sought to blockade Confederate ports and control key coastal waters.
  • E. Sherman’s March to the Sea
    Sherman’s March to the Sea was Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s devastating 1864 campaign across Georgia that aimed to cripple the Confederacy’s war capacity through widespread destruction of military and economic resources.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69d886ca8f348190812768ea8d5055ce completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3d184f2cc81908ac629c8f87696f8 completed April 18, 2026, 6:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00dc0d437c81908f003a10b798998a completed May 10, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.