Triple

T17049729
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Virginia campaign E413660 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object William Phillips
William Phillips was a British Army general who served in the American Revolutionary War, notably leading forces in Virginia before his death in 1781.
 E1257475 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 Phillips | Statement: [Virginia campaign, commander, William Phillips]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Phillips
Context triple: [Virginia campaign, commander, William Phillips]
  • A. William Phillips
    William Phillips was the birth name of American character actor Tully Marshall, known for his extensive work in early 20th-century stage and film.
  • B. William Phillips
    William Phillips is a songwriter best known for co-writing the hit song "Stay With Me" performed by Sam Smith.
  • C. John Shaffer Phipps
    John Shaffer Phipps was an American financier and heir of the Phipps family fortune, best known as a prominent Gilded Age estate owner and horseman.
  • D. Samuel Cornelius Phillips
    Samuel Cornelius Phillips was an influential American record producer and founder of Sun Records, best known for discovering and recording early rock and roll artists such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
  • E. Charles Ranlett Flint
    Charles Ranlett Flint was an American financier and industrialist best known for orchestrating mergers that led to the creation of major corporations, including the company that became IBM.
  • 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 Phillips
Triple: [Virginia campaign, commander, William Phillips]
Generated description
William Phillips was a British Army general who served in the American Revolutionary War, notably leading forces in Virginia before his death in 1781.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Phillips
Target entity description: William Phillips was a British Army general who served in the American Revolutionary War, notably leading forces in Virginia before his death in 1781.
  • A. William Phillips
    William Phillips was the birth name of American character actor Tully Marshall, known for his extensive work in early 20th-century stage and film.
  • B. William Phillips
    William Phillips is a songwriter best known for co-writing the hit song "Stay With Me" performed by Sam Smith.
  • C. John Shaffer Phipps
    John Shaffer Phipps was an American financier and heir of the Phipps family fortune, best known as a prominent Gilded Age estate owner and horseman.
  • D. Samuel Cornelius Phillips
    Samuel Cornelius Phillips was an influential American record producer and founder of Sun Records, best known for discovering and recording early rock and roll artists such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
  • E. Charles Ranlett Flint
    Charles Ranlett Flint was an American financier and industrialist best known for orchestrating mergers that led to the creation of major corporations, including the company that became IBM.
  • 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_69d886cde3d481908d4d01ba88ba7eb7 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3daa1aeac81909e8d97bd708c6b71 completed April 18, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01673ff7ec8190add7af932c38deef completed May 11, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a016a8269cc8190b1ceba35d041403d completed May 11, 2026, 5:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a016b0e72588190b1ba2b45f0425d3d completed May 11, 2026, 5:37 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:34 a.m.