Triple

T22791373
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject District of Southeast Missouri E564118 entity
Predicate notableCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object Brigadier General Benjamin M. Prentiss
Brigadier General Benjamin M. Prentiss was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, best known for his stubborn defense at the Battle of Shiloh and subsequent service in various Western Theater commands.
E1558703 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: Brigadier General Benjamin M. Prentiss | Statement: [District of Southeast Missouri, notableCommander, Brigadier General Benjamin M. Prentiss]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brigadier General Benjamin M. Prentiss
Context triple: [District of Southeast Missouri, notableCommander, Brigadier General Benjamin M. Prentiss]
  • A. Brigadier General Alexander Hays
    Brigadier General Alexander Hays was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War known for his aggressive leadership and distinguished service in major battles such as Gettysburg.
  • B. Brigadier General Alpheus S. Williams
    Brigadier General Alpheus S. Williams was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, best known for his leadership in major Eastern Theater campaigns and his long, often underrecognized service in the Army of the Potomac.
  • C. Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner
    Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner was a Loyalist military leader and former attorney general of New Jersey who commanded provincial forces in support of the British during the American Revolutionary War.
  • D. Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed
    Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed was a U.S. Army officer and Civil War brigadier general who was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • E. Brigadier General Alexander S. Webb
    Brigadier General Alexander S. Webb was a Union Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient best known for his decisive leadership defending Cemetery Ridge during Pickett’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • 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: Brigadier General Benjamin M. Prentiss
Triple: [District of Southeast Missouri, notableCommander, Brigadier General Benjamin M. Prentiss]
Generated description
Brigadier General Benjamin M. Prentiss was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, best known for his stubborn defense at the Battle of Shiloh and subsequent service in various Western Theater commands.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brigadier General Benjamin M. Prentiss
Target entity description: Brigadier General Benjamin M. Prentiss was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, best known for his stubborn defense at the Battle of Shiloh and subsequent service in various Western Theater commands.
  • A. Brigadier General Alexander Hays
    Brigadier General Alexander Hays was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War known for his aggressive leadership and distinguished service in major battles such as Gettysburg.
  • B. Brigadier General Alpheus S. Williams
    Brigadier General Alpheus S. Williams was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, best known for his leadership in major Eastern Theater campaigns and his long, often underrecognized service in the Army of the Potomac.
  • C. Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner
    Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner was a Loyalist military leader and former attorney general of New Jersey who commanded provincial forces in support of the British during the American Revolutionary War.
  • D. Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed
    Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed was a U.S. Army officer and Civil War brigadier general who was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • E. Brigadier General Alexander S. Webb
    Brigadier General Alexander S. Webb was a Union Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient best known for his decisive leadership defending Cemetery Ridge during Pickett’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • 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_69e2458185f88190b0045227ee420411 completed April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f17c3545fc819084af67cc25e94839 completed April 29, 2026, 3:34 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0bae7ae98c8190bea4a5d76a5456bf completed May 19, 2026, 12:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0baf96f71c8190b1c0ee09d1fbde19 completed May 19, 2026, 12:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0bb0d8a2f0819084161d3a09cfa1ae completed May 19, 2026, 12:37 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:30 p.m.