Triple
T20733173
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War |
E509621
|
entity |
| Predicate | writtenBy |
P806
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Pulitzer Prize–winning historian James M. McPherson |
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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: Pulitzer Prize–winning historian James M. McPherson | Statement: [For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, writtenBy, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian James M. McPherson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pulitzer Prize–winning historian James M. McPherson Context triple: [For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, writtenBy, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian James M. McPherson]
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A.
Shelby Foote
Shelby Foote was an American novelist and historian best known for his monumental three-volume narrative history of the American Civil War and his appearances in Ken Burns’s documentary "The Civil War."
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B.
Allen C. Guelzo
Allen C. Guelzo is an American historian and author renowned for his scholarship on Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War.
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C.
James M. McPherson
chosen
James M. McPherson is a prominent American Civil War historian and author, best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning book "Battle Cry of Freedom."
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D.
David W. Blight
David W. Blight is an American historian and Yale professor renowned for his scholarship on the Civil War and the memory of slavery, particularly through works like his Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Frederick Douglass.
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E.
J. O. Taylor
J. O. Taylor was a cinematographer active during early Hollywood who worked on the landmark 1933 monster film "King Kong."
- 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_69e0b4c589c08190834fb5d86d0efa2b |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6c1ef3040819085c8056e75571104 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 12:16 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:31 p.m.