Triple
T19152985
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Trent Affair |
E468854
|
entity |
| Predicate | involvedPerson |
P1256
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John Slidell |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: John Slidell | Statement: [Trent Affair, involvedPerson, John Slidell]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Slidell Context triple: [Trent Affair, involvedPerson, John Slidell]
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A.
John Slidell
chosen
John Slidell was a 19th-century American politician and diplomat from Louisiana, known for his role in the lead-up to the Mexican–American War and his involvement in the Confederate diplomatic mission during the American Civil War.
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B.
James B. Speed
James B. Speed was a prominent 19th-century American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Attorney General under President Abraham Lincoln.
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C.
James G. Field
James G. Field was an American politician and Confederate veteran who served as the Populist Party’s vice-presidential nominee in the 1892 U.S. presidential election.
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D.
Nathaniel P. Banks
Nathaniel P. Banks was a Union major general in the American Civil War and former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and governor of Massachusetts.
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E.
John F. Johnston
John F. Johnston was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the city of Johnston, Iowa, was named.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8dd084ff48190ac0f8c46ee722629 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e5eeb7575c8190b52a9d2bde5ac288 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 9:15 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:06 p.m.