Triple
T21805321
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | CSS Shenandoah |
E538334
|
entity |
| Predicate | commander |
P1061
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FINISHED |
| Object | James Iredell Waddell |
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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: James Iredell Waddell | Statement: [CSS Shenandoah, commander, James Iredell Waddell]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Iredell Waddell Context triple: [CSS Shenandoah, commander, James Iredell Waddell]
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A.
James Iredell Waddell
chosen
James Iredell Waddell was a Confederate States Navy officer best known for commanding the commerce raider CSS Shenandoah during the American Civil War.
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B.
William B. Umstead
William B. Umstead was a mid-20th-century North Carolina politician who served as both a U.S. senator and the 63rd governor of the state.
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C.
William B. Taliaferro
William B. Taliaferro was a Confederate general during the American Civil War who held several important field commands in the Eastern Theater.
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D.
John B. Randleman
John B. Randleman was a notable figure after whom the city of Randleman, North Carolina, was named, likely due to his prominence or contributions to the area.
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E.
Henry W. Ralston
Henry W. Ralston was a publishing executive at Street & Smith who co-created and helped develop the pulp hero Doc Savage in the 1930s.
- 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_69e0c473f0f8819086c9d1b4a143bd67 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f07801fa8081909098d00947bf8f7f |
completed | April 28, 2026, 9:04 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:53 p.m.