Triple

T259731
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject United States Department of War E5514 entity
Predicate oversaw P760 FINISHED
Object United States Ordnance Department
The United States Ordnance Department was a branch of the U.S. Army responsible for the procurement, supply, and maintenance of weapons, ammunition, and military equipment.
E33757 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: United States Ordnance Department | Statement: [United States Department of War, oversaw, United States Ordnance Department]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States Ordnance Department
Context triple: [United States Department of War, oversaw, United States Ordnance Department]
  • A. Office of Defense Mobilization
    The Office of Defense Mobilization was a U.S. federal agency created during the early Cold War to coordinate industrial and economic resources for national defense and emergency preparedness.
  • B. United States Department of War
    The United States Department of War was the former executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for overseeing the Army and managing military affairs until its functions were absorbed by the Department of Defense.
  • C. United States Army Signal Corps
    The United States Army Signal Corps is the branch of the U.S. Army responsible for developing, managing, and supporting military communications and information systems.
  • D. War Production Board
    The War Production Board was a U.S. government agency during World War II responsible for directing industrial production and resource allocation to support the war effort.
  • E. Office of War Mobilization
    The Office of War Mobilization was a U.S. World War II agency that coordinated all government agencies involved in the war effort to efficiently direct the nation’s economic and industrial resources toward victory.
  • 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: United States Ordnance Department
Triple: [United States Department of War, oversaw, United States Ordnance Department]
Generated description
The United States Ordnance Department was a branch of the U.S. Army responsible for the procurement, supply, and maintenance of weapons, ammunition, and military equipment.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States Ordnance Department
Target entity description: The United States Ordnance Department was a branch of the U.S. Army responsible for the procurement, supply, and maintenance of weapons, ammunition, and military equipment.
  • A. Office of Defense Mobilization
    The Office of Defense Mobilization was a U.S. federal agency created during the early Cold War to coordinate industrial and economic resources for national defense and emergency preparedness.
  • B. United States Department of War
    The United States Department of War was the former executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for overseeing the Army and managing military affairs until its functions were absorbed by the Department of Defense.
  • C. United States Army Signal Corps
    The United States Army Signal Corps is the branch of the U.S. Army responsible for developing, managing, and supporting military communications and information systems.
  • D. War Production Board
    The War Production Board was a U.S. government agency during World War II responsible for directing industrial production and resource allocation to support the war effort.
  • E. Office of War Mobilization
    The Office of War Mobilization was a U.S. World War II agency that coordinated all government agencies involved in the war effort to efficiently direct the nation’s economic and industrial resources toward victory.
  • 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_69a2580a64ac8190ad76e34bb0715b5e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25d72dad4819092c9502e6e4edc44 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3837622cc819096df20695413b5c0 completed March 1, 2026, 12:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a38470215c8190b6541ab567ca5721 completed March 1, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a384cbfbec81909a3ae67f51dadfb3 completed March 1, 2026, 12:14 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:55 a.m.