Triple

T21154285
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Paiute War E521271 entity
Predicate notableCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object William Ormsby
William Ormsby was a 19th-century American militia leader best known for commanding volunteer forces in the early stages of the Paiute War in Nevada, where he was killed in battle.
E1469648 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: William Ormsby | Statement: [Paiute War, notableCommander, William Ormsby]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Ormsby
Context triple: [Paiute War, notableCommander, William Ormsby]
  • A. William McGillivray
    William McGillivray was a prominent Canadian fur trader and businessman who became a leading figure in the North West Company during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • B. John Palliser
    John Palliser was a 19th-century Irish explorer and geographer best known for leading the Palliser Expedition that surveyed western Canada and identified the semi-arid region later called Palliser’s Triangle.
  • C. Thomas Munro
    Thomas Munro was a prominent British colonial administrator and soldier who served as Governor of Madras and played a key role in shaping early 19th-century British rule in India.
  • D. James Lumsden
    James Lumsden was a Scottish stationer and civic figure from Glasgow, known for his successful family business and service as Lord Provost in the 19th century.
  • E. James Munro
    James Munro is a Canadian bookseller and co-founder of the Munro’s Books bookstore, best known as the former husband of Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro.
  • 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: William Ormsby
Triple: [Paiute War, notableCommander, William Ormsby]
Generated description
William Ormsby was a 19th-century American militia leader best known for commanding volunteer forces in the early stages of the Paiute War in Nevada, where he was killed in battle.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Ormsby
Target entity description: William Ormsby was a 19th-century American militia leader best known for commanding volunteer forces in the early stages of the Paiute War in Nevada, where he was killed in battle.
  • A. William McGillivray
    William McGillivray was a prominent Canadian fur trader and businessman who became a leading figure in the North West Company during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • B. John Palliser
    John Palliser was a 19th-century Irish explorer and geographer best known for leading the Palliser Expedition that surveyed western Canada and identified the semi-arid region later called Palliser’s Triangle.
  • C. Thomas Munro
    Thomas Munro was a prominent British colonial administrator and soldier who served as Governor of Madras and played a key role in shaping early 19th-century British rule in India.
  • D. James Lumsden
    James Lumsden was a Scottish stationer and civic figure from Glasgow, known for his successful family business and service as Lord Provost in the 19th century.
  • E. James Munro
    James Munro is a Canadian bookseller and co-founder of the Munro’s Books bookstore, best known as the former husband of Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro.
  • 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_69e0b50d1ea481909c07e63c3ead9316 completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e7252a48788190bfdfe811fc6cfc06 completed April 21, 2026, 7:20 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a096dca1b28819087d3d6d118e7eaee completed May 17, 2026, 7:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a096e6cce748190ba618dfe86f7f6ce completed May 17, 2026, 7:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a096f7706448190a1bb61535e0adcd3 completed May 17, 2026, 7:34 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:58 p.m.