Triple

T19108151
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alvah Bessie E467712 entity
Predicate wrote P2831 FINISHED
Object Men in Battle
Men in Battle is a memoir by American writer Alvah Bessie recounting his experiences fighting with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War.
E1358763 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: Men in Battle | Statement: [Alvah Bessie, wrote, Men in Battle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Men in Battle
Context triple: [Alvah Bessie, wrote, Men in Battle]
  • A. Men in War
    Men in War is a 1957 American war film, directed by Anthony Mann, that portrays the psychological strain and moral ambiguity faced by a small U.S. Army unit during the Korean War.
  • B. Two Soldiers
    "Two Soldiers" is a traditional American folk ballad about brothers going off to war, notably popularized by Bob Dylan’s recording on his 1993 album *World Gone Wrong*.
  • C. Two Soldiers
    Two Soldiers is a short film adaptation of a William Faulkner story that won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.
  • D. Men Against Fire
    Men Against Fire is a controversial 1947 military psychology book by U.S. Army historian S. L. A. Marshall that examines soldiers’ behavior in combat and famously claimed that only a small fraction of infantrymen actually fired their weapons at the enemy in World War II.
  • E. Die Soldaten
    Die Soldaten is a seminal 18th-century German play by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz that portrays the moral decay and social consequences of militarism and class oppression.
  • 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: Men in Battle
Triple: [Alvah Bessie, wrote, Men in Battle]
Generated description
Men in Battle is a memoir by American writer Alvah Bessie recounting his experiences fighting with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Men in Battle
Target entity description: Men in Battle is a memoir by American writer Alvah Bessie recounting his experiences fighting with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War.
  • A. Men in War
    Men in War is a 1957 American war film, directed by Anthony Mann, that portrays the psychological strain and moral ambiguity faced by a small U.S. Army unit during the Korean War.
  • B. Two Soldiers
    "Two Soldiers" is a traditional American folk ballad about brothers going off to war, notably popularized by Bob Dylan’s recording on his 1993 album *World Gone Wrong*.
  • C. Two Soldiers
    Two Soldiers is a short film adaptation of a William Faulkner story that won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.
  • D. Men Against Fire
    Men Against Fire is a controversial 1947 military psychology book by U.S. Army historian S. L. A. Marshall that examines soldiers’ behavior in combat and famously claimed that only a small fraction of infantrymen actually fired their weapons at the enemy in World War II.
  • E. Die Soldaten
    Die Soldaten is a seminal 18th-century German play by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz that portrays the moral decay and social consequences of militarism and class oppression.
  • 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_69d8dd06a26481908039e2a1bae8c597 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5e391f00c8190881a5977dd3728ed completed April 20, 2026, 8:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a05dda214948190a7b1c37e4d823267 completed May 14, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05dfd00d1081908086212708501c8f completed May 14, 2026, 2:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a05e0f25e2481909ddd3f2181b784ea completed May 14, 2026, 2:49 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:04 p.m.