Triple

T21807982
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Custer’s Last Stand E538396 entity
Predicate killedCommander P4646 FINISHED
Object Thomas Custer
Thomas Custer was a two-time Medal of Honor–winning U.S. Army officer and younger brother of George Armstrong Custer who was killed alongside him at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
E1508568 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: Thomas Custer | Statement: [Custer’s Last Stand, killedCommander, Thomas Custer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Custer
Context triple: [Custer’s Last Stand, killedCommander, Thomas Custer]
  • A. George Armstrong Custer
    George Armstrong Custer was a U.S. Army officer and cavalry commander best known for his controversial leadership and death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn during the American Indian Wars.
  • B. Captain William J. Fetterman
    Captain William J. Fetterman was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the ill-fated 1866 engagement near Fort Phil Kearny during Red Cloud’s War, which resulted in one of the worst defeats of the U.S. military in the Indian Wars.
  • C. Old Custer
    Old Custer is a fictional book written by the character Eli Cash in Wes Anderson’s film "The Royal Tenenbaums."
  • D. Frederick Benteen
    Frederick Benteen was a U.S. Army officer best known for his controversial role as a cavalry commander during the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.
  • E. Hugh Judson Kilpatrick
    Hugh Judson Kilpatrick was a Union cavalry general in the American Civil War, known for his aggressive and often reckless leadership in numerous mounted engagements.
  • 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: Thomas Custer
Triple: [Custer’s Last Stand, killedCommander, Thomas Custer]
Generated description
Thomas Custer was a two-time Medal of Honor–winning U.S. Army officer and younger brother of George Armstrong Custer who was killed alongside him at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Custer
Target entity description: Thomas Custer was a two-time Medal of Honor–winning U.S. Army officer and younger brother of George Armstrong Custer who was killed alongside him at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
  • A. George Armstrong Custer
    George Armstrong Custer was a U.S. Army officer and cavalry commander best known for his controversial leadership and death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn during the American Indian Wars.
  • B. Captain William J. Fetterman
    Captain William J. Fetterman was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the ill-fated 1866 engagement near Fort Phil Kearny during Red Cloud’s War, which resulted in one of the worst defeats of the U.S. military in the Indian Wars.
  • C. Old Custer
    Old Custer is a fictional book written by the character Eli Cash in Wes Anderson’s film "The Royal Tenenbaums."
  • D. Frederick Benteen
    Frederick Benteen was a U.S. Army officer best known for his controversial role as a cavalry commander during the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.
  • E. Hugh Judson Kilpatrick
    Hugh Judson Kilpatrick was a Union cavalry general in the American Civil War, known for his aggressive and often reckless leadership in numerous mounted engagements.
  • 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_69e0c473f0f8819086c9d1b4a143bd67 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f078047ca88190a0efa4bc7f2faf80 completed April 28, 2026, 9:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a60cfbb388190b3403128edb12b4a completed May 18, 2026, 12:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a6131a5b08190879d0a3b24a18aef completed May 18, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a61a609988190979940fe25c58c44 completed May 18, 2026, 12:47 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:53 p.m.