Triple

T23079510
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject CSS Hunley E575427 entity
Predicate commandedBy P1407 FINISHED
Object Lieutenant George E. Dixon
Lieutenant George E. Dixon was a Confederate officer best known for commanding the submarine H.L. Hunley during its historic and fatal attack on the USS Housatonic in the American Civil War.
E1570053 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: Lieutenant George E. Dixon | Statement: [CSS Hunley, commandedBy, Lieutenant George E. Dixon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lieutenant George E. Dixon
Context triple: [CSS Hunley, commandedBy, Lieutenant George E. Dixon]
  • A. Lieutenant Thomas L. Truax
    Lieutenant Thomas L. Truax was a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot honored posthumously as the namesake of Truax Field after being killed in a training accident shortly before the United States entered World War II.
  • B. Lieutenant George Nicholas Bascom
    Lieutenant George Nicholas Bascom was a U.S. Army officer best known for his role in the 1861 Bascom Affair, a pivotal incident that helped ignite prolonged conflict with the Apache in the American Southwest.
  • C. Lt. Henry N. Way
    Lt. Henry N. Way was a U.S. Army officer whose service in the coastal artillery corps led to a major seacoast gun battery in the Philippines being named in his honor.
  • D. Lieutenant William F. Kinderman
    Lieutenant William F. Kinderman is a seasoned, introspective police detective who investigates a series of gruesome, seemingly supernatural murders in the horror film *The Exorcist III*.
  • E. Lieutenant Augustus C. Ludlow
    Lieutenant Augustus C. Ludlow was a U.S. Navy officer noted for his gallantry and death in the War of 1812, particularly during the battle between USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon.
  • 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: Lieutenant George E. Dixon
Triple: [CSS Hunley, commandedBy, Lieutenant George E. Dixon]
Generated description
Lieutenant George E. Dixon was a Confederate officer best known for commanding the submarine H.L. Hunley during its historic and fatal attack on the USS Housatonic in the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lieutenant George E. Dixon
Target entity description: Lieutenant George E. Dixon was a Confederate officer best known for commanding the submarine H.L. Hunley during its historic and fatal attack on the USS Housatonic in the American Civil War.
  • A. Lieutenant Thomas L. Truax
    Lieutenant Thomas L. Truax was a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot honored posthumously as the namesake of Truax Field after being killed in a training accident shortly before the United States entered World War II.
  • B. Lieutenant George Nicholas Bascom
    Lieutenant George Nicholas Bascom was a U.S. Army officer best known for his role in the 1861 Bascom Affair, a pivotal incident that helped ignite prolonged conflict with the Apache in the American Southwest.
  • C. Lt. Henry N. Way
    Lt. Henry N. Way was a U.S. Army officer whose service in the coastal artillery corps led to a major seacoast gun battery in the Philippines being named in his honor.
  • D. Lieutenant William F. Kinderman
    Lieutenant William F. Kinderman is a seasoned, introspective police detective who investigates a series of gruesome, seemingly supernatural murders in the horror film *The Exorcist III*.
  • E. Lieutenant Augustus C. Ludlow
    Lieutenant Augustus C. Ludlow was a U.S. Navy officer noted for his gallantry and death in the War of 1812, particularly during the battle between USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon.
  • 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_69e245be28d48190ad1348d5a73db37d completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18c66a80481909ebc2ba69f1e4bd9 completed April 29, 2026, 4:43 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c15aec9508190ae8eedb3e2615097 completed May 19, 2026, 7:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c166786108190813262e7c7be832e completed May 19, 2026, 7:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c16c73140819088d46d4e8b03c7a4 completed May 19, 2026, 7:52 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:56 p.m.