Triple

T20063764
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 71st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment E499552 entity
Predicate notableCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object Colonel Richard Penn Smith
Colonel Richard Penn Smith was a Union Army officer who commanded the 71st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War.
E1411420 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: Colonel Richard Penn Smith | Statement: [71st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, notableCommander, Colonel Richard Penn Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Richard Penn Smith
Context triple: [71st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, notableCommander, Colonel Richard Penn Smith]
  • A. Colonel George Burgwyn Anderson
    Colonel George Burgwyn Anderson was a Confederate Army officer from North Carolina who served as a brigade commander during the American Civil War and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam.
  • B. Colonel Frank Fitts
    Colonel Frank Fitts is a strict, repressed former Marine officer and abusive father whose hidden vulnerabilities and internalized homophobia drive much of the tension in the film American Beauty.
  • C. Colonel H. Weir Cook
    Colonel H. Weir Cook was a distinguished American World War I flying ace and aviation pioneer from Indiana.
  • D. Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward
    Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward was a Union Army officer who led the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry during the American Civil War.
  • E. Colonel Edward J. Steptoe
    Colonel Edward J. Steptoe was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer known for his service in the American West, including involvement in conflicts with Native American tribes.
  • 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: Colonel Richard Penn Smith
Triple: [71st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, notableCommander, Colonel Richard Penn Smith]
Generated description
Colonel Richard Penn Smith was a Union Army officer who commanded the 71st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Richard Penn Smith
Target entity description: Colonel Richard Penn Smith was a Union Army officer who commanded the 71st Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War.
  • A. Colonel George Burgwyn Anderson
    Colonel George Burgwyn Anderson was a Confederate Army officer from North Carolina who served as a brigade commander during the American Civil War and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam.
  • B. Colonel Frank Fitts
    Colonel Frank Fitts is a strict, repressed former Marine officer and abusive father whose hidden vulnerabilities and internalized homophobia drive much of the tension in the film American Beauty.
  • C. Colonel H. Weir Cook
    Colonel H. Weir Cook was a distinguished American World War I flying ace and aviation pioneer from Indiana.
  • D. Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward
    Colonel Orpheus S. Woodward was a Union Army officer who led the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry during the American Civil War.
  • E. Colonel Edward J. Steptoe
    Colonel Edward J. Steptoe was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer known for his service in the American West, including involvement in conflicts with Native American tribes.
  • 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_69da6276bcf48190aabbf279192a5fb4 completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e66377b6b48190a0a37279f285123e completed April 20, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0826fe50b481908c6cdefea4e10f8d completed May 16, 2026, 8:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08295f91f88190868945d0368395bb completed May 16, 2026, 8:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0829c935708190978ed4e447c12585 completed May 16, 2026, 8:24 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 3:39 p.m.