Triple

T18969839
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Confederate coastal defenses E464138 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Charleston harbor defenses
Charleston harbor defenses were a network of Confederate fortifications, batteries, and obstructions protecting the strategically vital port of Charleston, South Carolina, during the American Civil War.
E464138 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: Charleston harbor defenses | Statement: [Confederate coastal defenses, hasPart, Charleston harbor defenses]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charleston harbor defenses
Context triple: [Confederate coastal defenses, hasPart, Charleston harbor defenses]
  • A. 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.
  • 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. Fort Beaufort
    Fort Beaufort is a historic town in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, known for its role as a British military outpost during the 19th-century frontier wars.
  • D. Charleston Navy Yard
    Charleston Navy Yard was a major U.S. Navy shipbuilding and repair facility in Charleston, South Carolina, active through both World Wars.
  • E. Confederate coastal defenses
    Confederate coastal defenses were a network of fortifications, artillery batteries, and supporting installations built by the Confederate States during the American Civil War to protect key ports, harbors, and shorelines from Union naval attacks.
  • 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: Charleston harbor defenses
Triple: [Confederate coastal defenses, hasPart, Charleston harbor defenses]
Generated description
Charleston harbor defenses were a network of Confederate fortifications, batteries, and obstructions protecting the strategically vital port of Charleston, South Carolina, during the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charleston harbor defenses
Target entity description: Charleston harbor defenses were a network of Confederate fortifications, batteries, and obstructions protecting the strategically vital port of Charleston, South Carolina, during the American Civil War.
  • A. 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.
  • 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. Fort Beaufort
    Fort Beaufort is a historic town in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, known for its role as a British military outpost during the 19th-century frontier wars.
  • D. Charleston Navy Yard
    Charleston Navy Yard was a major U.S. Navy shipbuilding and repair facility in Charleston, South Carolina, active through both World Wars.
  • E. Confederate coastal defenses chosen
    Confederate coastal defenses were a network of fortifications, artillery batteries, and supporting installations built by the Confederate States during the American Civil War to protect key ports, harbors, and shorelines from Union naval attacks.
  • 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_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_6a05b44c5a1081909871a6513b1591f3 completed May 14, 2026, 11:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05b706025c8190aed7945dad186ba5 completed May 14, 2026, 11:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a05b7e153948190b19a6ad3ffff2aba completed May 14, 2026, 11:54 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, noon