Triple

T1992085
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Seven Days Battles E43272 entity
Predicate includesBattle P1393 FINISHED
Object Battle of Mechanicsville
The Battle of Mechanicsville was an 1862 American Civil War engagement near Richmond, Virginia, marking the opening clash of Robert E. Lee’s Seven Days Campaign against Union forces during the Peninsula Campaign.
E248639 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: Battle of Mechanicsville | Statement: [Seven Days Battles, includesBattle, Battle of Mechanicsville]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Mechanicsville
Context triple: [Seven Days Battles, includesBattle, Battle of Mechanicsville]
  • A. Battle of Hatcher's Run
    The Battle of Hatcher's Run was a late–Civil War engagement in February 1865 in which Union forces extended their lines southwest of Petersburg, Virginia, helping to cut Confederate supply routes and tighten the noose around Robert E. Lee’s army.
  • B. Second Battle of Winchester
    The Second Battle of Winchester was a major Confederate victory in June 1863 during the American Civil War that opened the Shenandoah Valley for Robert E. Lee’s army and set the stage for the Gettysburg Campaign.
  • C. Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
    The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House was a major and brutal engagement of the American Civil War’s Overland Campaign in May 1864, marked by intense trench warfare and heavy casualties between Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee.
  • D. Battle of Shepherdstown
    The Battle of Shepherdstown was a minor but strategically important American Civil War engagement in September 1862, marking the Confederate rearguard action as Robert E. Lee’s army withdrew across the Potomac River after the Maryland Campaign.
  • E. Battle of Chancellorsville
    The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major American Civil War engagement in 1863 in Virginia, noted for Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s audacious and tactically brilliant victory over a much larger Union force.
  • 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: Battle of Mechanicsville
Triple: [Seven Days Battles, includesBattle, Battle of Mechanicsville]
Generated description
The Battle of Mechanicsville was an 1862 American Civil War engagement near Richmond, Virginia, marking the opening clash of Robert E. Lee’s Seven Days Campaign against Union forces during the Peninsula Campaign.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Mechanicsville
Target entity description: The Battle of Mechanicsville was an 1862 American Civil War engagement near Richmond, Virginia, marking the opening clash of Robert E. Lee’s Seven Days Campaign against Union forces during the Peninsula Campaign.
  • A. Battle of Hatcher's Run
    The Battle of Hatcher's Run was a late–Civil War engagement in February 1865 in which Union forces extended their lines southwest of Petersburg, Virginia, helping to cut Confederate supply routes and tighten the noose around Robert E. Lee’s army.
  • B. Second Battle of Winchester
    The Second Battle of Winchester was a major Confederate victory in June 1863 during the American Civil War that opened the Shenandoah Valley for Robert E. Lee’s army and set the stage for the Gettysburg Campaign.
  • C. Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
    The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House was a major and brutal engagement of the American Civil War’s Overland Campaign in May 1864, marked by intense trench warfare and heavy casualties between Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee.
  • D. Battle of Shepherdstown
    The Battle of Shepherdstown was a minor but strategically important American Civil War engagement in September 1862, marking the Confederate rearguard action as Robert E. Lee’s army withdrew across the Potomac River after the Maryland Campaign.
  • E. Battle of Chancellorsville
    The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major American Civil War engagement in 1863 in Virginia, noted for Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s audacious and tactically brilliant victory over a much larger Union force.
  • 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_69a88714cf2c819081644be450b8356e completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb846f1c0819081edd8d5eb59adce completed March 7, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae6ae66fe08190be75c18f0916f23b completed March 9, 2026, 6:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae6b9da51c819085beb79a14f5d8b5 completed March 9, 2026, 6:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae6c2a465c8190a9fe2a465e9ac3f0 completed March 9, 2026, 6:43 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:37 p.m.