Triple

T22085261
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Western Defense Command E545754 entity
Predicate notableCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt — 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: Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt | Statement: [Western Defense Command, notableCommander, Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt
Context triple: [Western Defense Command, notableCommander, Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt]
  • A. General John L. DeWitt
    General John L. DeWitt was a senior U.S. Army officer during World War II best known for overseeing the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans from the West Coast.
  • B. John L. DeWitt chosen
    John L. DeWitt was a U.S. Army general best known for overseeing the Western Defense Command during World War II and for his role in advocating the internment of Japanese Americans.
  • C. Colonel Norval E. Welch
    Colonel Norval E. Welch was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War best known for leading the 16th Michigan Infantry in key engagements such as the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • D. Robert L. Ghormley
    Robert L. Ghormley was a U.S. Navy admiral during World War II who played a key leadership role in the early Pacific campaigns, including the Guadalcanal operation.
  • E. Lt. Gen. Millard F. Harmon
    Lt. Gen. Millard F. Harmon was a senior United States Army Air Forces officer in World War II who played a key leadership role in air operations in the Pacific theater before disappearing on a 1945 flight.
  • 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_69e11e3523488190badd54b5d580c00d completed April 16, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f128ba24ac819082fc4aa274553481 completed April 28, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:29 p.m.