Triple
T2845662
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Union Army |
E62576
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableEvent |
P259
|
FINISHED |
| Object | surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House |
E213644
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House | Statement: [Union Army, notableEvent, surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House Context triple: [Union Army, notableEvent, surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House]
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A.
Battle of Appomattox Court House
chosen
The Battle of Appomattox Court House was the final major engagement of the American Civil War in Virginia, leading to General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865.
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B.
Appomattox Campaign
The Appomattox Campaign was the final series of military operations in the American Civil War that led to the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia in April 1865.
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C.
Battle of Appomattox Station
The Battle of Appomattox Station was a late–Civil War engagement in April 1865 in which Union forces captured Confederate supply trains near Appomattox, hastening General Robert E. Lee’s surrender.
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D.
Appomattox Court House, Virginia
Appomattox Court House, Virginia is a historic village best known as the site where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War.
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E.
Battle of Five Forks
The Battle of Five Forks was a decisive American Civil War engagement in April 1865 in Virginia, where Union forces broke Confederate lines, leading directly to the fall of Petersburg and Richmond and the surrender at Appomattox.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ab4c3d16bc81908b3a1c98fbd287fe |
completed | March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abdf3d00708190966a477fdd855f23 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 8:18 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69afe8d850b481909850ff5e89021824 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 9:48 a.m. |
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:02 p.m.