Triple

T2268481
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Modoc War E50602 entity
Predicate hasCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object Edward R. S. Canby
Edward R. S. Canby was a U.S. Army general best known for his service in the American Civil War and for being the only general officer killed during the Indian Wars, during peace negotiations in the Modoc War.
E270162 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: Edward R. S. Canby | Statement: [Modoc War, hasCommander, Edward R. S. Canby]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward R. S. Canby
Context triple: [Modoc War, hasCommander, Edward R. S. Canby]
  • A. Nelson A. Miles
    Nelson A. Miles was a prominent 19th-century United States Army general known for his leadership in the Indian Wars and later as Commanding General of the U.S. Army.
  • B. William B. Waddell
    William B. Waddell was a 19th-century American businessman best known as one of the founders of the Pony Express mail service.
  • C. G. R. Stilwell
    G. R. Stilwell was a physicist known for co-conducting the Ives–Stilwell experiment, a key early test of special relativity’s time dilation and relativistic Doppler effect.
  • D. Josiah Parsons Cooke
    Josiah Parsons Cooke was a 19th-century American chemist and Harvard professor known for his influential work in chemical education and atomic theory.
  • E. Thomas C. Kinkaid
    Thomas C. Kinkaid was a U.S. Navy admiral in World War II who led major Allied naval operations in the Pacific Theater.
  • 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: Edward R. S. Canby
Triple: [Modoc War, hasCommander, Edward R. S. Canby]
Generated description
Edward R. S. Canby was a U.S. Army general best known for his service in the American Civil War and for being the only general officer killed during the Indian Wars, during peace negotiations in the Modoc War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward R. S. Canby
Target entity description: Edward R. S. Canby was a U.S. Army general best known for his service in the American Civil War and for being the only general officer killed during the Indian Wars, during peace negotiations in the Modoc War.
  • A. Nelson A. Miles
    Nelson A. Miles was a prominent 19th-century United States Army general known for his leadership in the Indian Wars and later as Commanding General of the U.S. Army.
  • B. William B. Waddell
    William B. Waddell was a 19th-century American businessman best known as one of the founders of the Pony Express mail service.
  • C. G. R. Stilwell
    G. R. Stilwell was a physicist known for co-conducting the Ives–Stilwell experiment, a key early test of special relativity’s time dilation and relativistic Doppler effect.
  • D. Josiah Parsons Cooke
    Josiah Parsons Cooke was a 19th-century American chemist and Harvard professor known for his influential work in chemical education and atomic theory.
  • E. Thomas C. Kinkaid
    Thomas C. Kinkaid was a U.S. Navy admiral in World War II who led major Allied naval operations in the Pacific Theater.
  • 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_69a88b05910c8190a9a2b1ff230c85f9 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc1bbb49c8190822c7d809375e879 completed March 7, 2026, 6:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af17695e6481908bb7e4848a5ffc09 completed March 9, 2026, 6:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af1a0749148190bb23911440a8ee1e completed March 9, 2026, 7:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af1a6c684481909458c26e18f0cf3a completed March 9, 2026, 7:07 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:48 p.m.