Triple

T18969838
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Confederate coastal defenses E464138 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Wilmington harbor defenses
Wilmington harbor defenses were a network of Confederate fortifications and obstructions protecting the vital port of Wilmington, North Carolina, from Union naval attack during the American Civil War.
E1352036 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: Wilmington harbor defenses | Statement: [Confederate coastal defenses, hasPart, Wilmington harbor defenses]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wilmington harbor defenses
Context triple: [Confederate coastal defenses, hasPart, Wilmington harbor defenses]
  • A. White Point Battery
    White Point Battery is a historic coastal artillery fortification and landmark located at the southern tip of the Charleston peninsula in South Carolina.
  • B. Fort Macon
    Fort Macon is a 19th-century coastal defense fortification in North Carolina, built as part of the United States’ Third System of seacoast defenses and now preserved as a state park and historic site.
  • C. Harbor Defenses of Portsmouth
    Harbor Defenses of Portsmouth were a network of coastal fortifications and military installations that protected the strategic harbor area around Portsmouth, New Hampshire, particularly during the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • D. Fort Johnson
    Fort Johnson is a historic coastal fortification on James Island in South Carolina that played a key role in the early events of the American Civil War.
  • E. Petersburg fortifications
    The Petersburg fortifications were an extensive network of Confederate defensive earthworks and trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, that played a central role in the prolonged siege operations of the American Civil War.
  • 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: Wilmington harbor defenses
Triple: [Confederate coastal defenses, hasPart, Wilmington harbor defenses]
Generated description
Wilmington harbor defenses were a network of Confederate fortifications and obstructions protecting the vital port of Wilmington, North Carolina, from Union naval attack during the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wilmington harbor defenses
Target entity description: Wilmington harbor defenses were a network of Confederate fortifications and obstructions protecting the vital port of Wilmington, North Carolina, from Union naval attack during the American Civil War.
  • A. White Point Battery
    White Point Battery is a historic coastal artillery fortification and landmark located at the southern tip of the Charleston peninsula in South Carolina.
  • B. Fort Macon
    Fort Macon is a 19th-century coastal defense fortification in North Carolina, built as part of the United States’ Third System of seacoast defenses and now preserved as a state park and historic site.
  • C. Harbor Defenses of Portsmouth
    Harbor Defenses of Portsmouth were a network of coastal fortifications and military installations that protected the strategic harbor area around Portsmouth, New Hampshire, particularly during the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • D. Fort Johnson
    Fort Johnson is a historic coastal fortification on James Island in South Carolina that played a key role in the early events of the American Civil War.
  • E. Petersburg fortifications
    The Petersburg fortifications were an extensive network of Confederate defensive earthworks and trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, that played a central role in the prolonged siege operations of the American Civil War.
  • 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_69d8dd008af48190a97ff1c6488edf1b completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5d619acbc8190acb49b3fae707758 completed April 20, 2026, 7:30 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a05ad39315c8190a9b63f00835b09aa completed May 14, 2026, 11:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05ae05487c819090e05fc1f8a6076b completed May 14, 2026, 11:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a05ae69bcc081908e4d7dd177533d4e completed May 14, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, noon