Triple

T2268482
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Modoc War E50602 entity
Predicate hasCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object Alvan C. Gillem
Alvan C. Gillem was a United States Army officer and Civil War veteran who later led federal troops in campaigns against Native American groups in the West.
 E276133 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: Alvan C. Gillem | Statement: [Modoc War, hasCommander, Alvan C. Gillem]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alvan C. Gillem
Context triple: [Modoc War, hasCommander, Alvan C. Gillem]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Lyman J. Gage
    Lyman J. Gage was an American banker and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
  • D. William H. Stokes
    William H. Stokes is an American Episcopal bishop who serves as the ecclesiastical leader of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey.
  • E. Henry Gage
    Henry Gage was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 20th governor of California from 1899 to 1903.
  • 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: Alvan C. Gillem
Triple: [Modoc War, hasCommander, Alvan C. Gillem]
Generated description
Alvan C. Gillem was a United States Army officer and Civil War veteran who later led federal troops in campaigns against Native American groups in the West.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alvan C. Gillem
Target entity description: Alvan C. Gillem was a United States Army officer and Civil War veteran who later led federal troops in campaigns against Native American groups in the West.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Lyman J. Gage
    Lyman J. Gage was an American banker and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
  • D. William H. Stokes
    William H. Stokes is an American Episcopal bishop who serves as the ecclesiastical leader of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey.
  • E. Henry Gage
    Henry Gage was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 20th governor of California from 1899 to 1903.
  • 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_69af2b5d9b7c8190a3c87ffacc486512 completed March 9, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af514d5e648190b4fbb1c1247d490d completed March 9, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af5509ce1881909169a529b4f835eb completed March 9, 2026, 11:17 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:48 p.m.