Triple

T20415218

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	72nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment	`E500694`	entity
Predicate	higherCommand	`P1407`	FINISHED
Object	Brigadier General Alexander S. Webb Brigadier General Alexander S. Webb was a Union Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient best known for his decisive leadership defending Cemetery Ridge during Pickett’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.	`E1438261`	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: Brigadier General Alexander S. Webb | Statement: [72nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, higherCommand, Brigadier General Alexander S. Webb]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Brigadier General Alexander S. Webb
Context triple: [72nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, higherCommand, Brigadier General Alexander S. Webb]

A. Brigadier General J. H. Hobart Ward
Brigadier General J. H. Hobart Ward was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, best known for leading his brigade in hard fighting at battles such as Gettysburg.
B. Brigadier General Joshua W. Sill
Brigadier General Joshua W. Sill was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, remembered for his leadership and for being killed in action at the Battle of Stones River.
C. Major-General George F. Hopkinson
Major-General George F. Hopkinson was a British Army officer and airborne warfare pioneer who led elite paratroop and glider forces during the Second World War.
D. Brigadier General James Winchester
Brigadier General James Winchester was an American military officer and War of 1812 commander who played a prominent role in early western campaigns, including the ill-fated operations in the Northwest Territory.
E. Brigadier General George Burrows
Brigadier General George Burrows was a British Indian Army officer best known for commanding the British-Indian forces at the disastrous 1880 Battle of Maiwand during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
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: Brigadier General Alexander S. Webb
Triple: [72nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, higherCommand, Brigadier General Alexander S. Webb]

Generated description

Brigadier General Alexander S. Webb was a Union Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient best known for his decisive leadership defending Cemetery Ridge during Pickett’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Brigadier General Alexander S. Webb
Target entity description: Brigadier General Alexander S. Webb was a Union Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient best known for his decisive leadership defending Cemetery Ridge during Pickett’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.

A. Brigadier General J. H. Hobart Ward
Brigadier General J. H. Hobart Ward was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, best known for leading his brigade in hard fighting at battles such as Gettysburg.
B. Brigadier General Joshua W. Sill
Brigadier General Joshua W. Sill was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, remembered for his leadership and for being killed in action at the Battle of Stones River.
C. Major-General George F. Hopkinson
Major-General George F. Hopkinson was a British Army officer and airborne warfare pioneer who led elite paratroop and glider forces during the Second World War.
D. Brigadier General James Winchester
Brigadier General James Winchester was an American military officer and War of 1812 commander who played a prominent role in early western campaigns, including the ill-fated operations in the Northwest Territory.
E. Brigadier General George Burrows
Brigadier General George Burrows was a British Indian Army officer best known for commanding the British-Indian forces at the disastrous 1880 Battle of Maiwand during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
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_69e0b4a935588190b9446a99b37ced44`	completed	April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69e67a437eec8190a20c89a236dd5bc0`	completed	April 20, 2026, 7:10 p.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_6a08accb54a881908b36c09c802ff3e1`	completed	May 16, 2026, 5:43 p.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_6a08ad96b2a081908d32e335c5265eec`	completed	May 16, 2026, 5:47 p.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_6a08ae19eca08190ada48b48105be62d`	completed	May 16, 2026, 5:49 p.m.

Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:30 a.m.