Triple

T181557
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lost Cause ideology E3887 entity
Predicate hasAlternativeName P39 FINISHED
Object Lost Cause of the Confederacy
The Lost Cause of the Confederacy is a post–Civil War ideological movement that romanticizes the Confederate cause, downplays slavery’s central role, and portrays the South’s defeat as honorable and inevitable.
E22696 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: Lost Cause of the Confederacy | Statement: [Lost Cause ideology, hasAlternativeName, Lost Cause of the Confederacy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lost Cause of the Confederacy
Context triple: [Lost Cause ideology, hasAlternativeName, Lost Cause of the Confederacy]
  • A. Lincoln the Unknown
    "Lincoln the Unknown" is a biographical book by Dale Carnegie that offers an accessible, narrative-driven portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s personal struggles and character development.
  • B. Father of His Country
    Father of His Country is an honorific title commonly used for George Washington, recognizing his pivotal leadership in the founding of the United States and his role as its first president.
  • C. Deep South
    The Deep South is a cultural and geographic subregion of the southeastern United States known for its distinct history, traditions, and social and political identity, often associated with states like Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, and parts of neighboring areas.
  • D. Negro Life at the South
    "Negro Life at the South" is an 1859 genre painting by American artist Eastman Johnson that depicts the everyday lives of enslaved African Americans in a Washington, D.C. backyard, offering a complex, nuanced view of slavery on the eve of the Civil War.
  • E. Gone with the Wind
    Gone with the Wind is a landmark 1939 American epic historical romance film set during the American Civil War and Reconstruction, renowned for its grand scale, cultural impact, and enduring popularity.
  • 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: Lost Cause of the Confederacy
Triple: [Lost Cause ideology, hasAlternativeName, Lost Cause of the Confederacy]
Generated description
The Lost Cause of the Confederacy is a post–Civil War ideological movement that romanticizes the Confederate cause, downplays slavery’s central role, and portrays the South’s defeat as honorable and inevitable.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lost Cause of the Confederacy
Target entity description: The Lost Cause of the Confederacy is a post–Civil War ideological movement that romanticizes the Confederate cause, downplays slavery’s central role, and portrays the South’s defeat as honorable and inevitable.
  • A. Lincoln the Unknown
    "Lincoln the Unknown" is a biographical book by Dale Carnegie that offers an accessible, narrative-driven portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s personal struggles and character development.
  • B. Father of His Country
    Father of His Country is an honorific title commonly used for George Washington, recognizing his pivotal leadership in the founding of the United States and his role as its first president.
  • C. Deep South
    The Deep South is a cultural and geographic subregion of the southeastern United States known for its distinct history, traditions, and social and political identity, often associated with states like Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, and parts of neighboring areas.
  • D. Negro Life at the South
    "Negro Life at the South" is an 1859 genre painting by American artist Eastman Johnson that depicts the everyday lives of enslaved African Americans in a Washington, D.C. backyard, offering a complex, nuanced view of slavery on the eve of the Civil War.
  • E. Gone with the Wind
    Gone with the Wind is a landmark 1939 American epic historical romance film set during the American Civil War and Reconstruction, renowned for its grand scale, cultural impact, and enduring popularity.
  • 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_69a25497e2f08190a040f8c6e1842643 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:36 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25923507c8190bd7f6eda404b0da0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2f0b71080819086362f6036b41162 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2f12f181c8190bae3098a2928feff completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2f3771fcc8190b8486be33f695524 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:53 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:40 a.m.