Triple
T3584238
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Appomattox County, Virginia |
E75872
|
entity |
| Predicate | contains |
P35
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Town of Appomattox
The Town of Appomattox is a small historic community in central Virginia best known for its proximity to Appomattox Court House, where the Civil War effectively ended with General Robert E. Lee’s surrender in 1865.
|
E9900
|
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: Town of Appomattox | Statement: [Appomattox County, Virginia, contains, Town of Appomattox]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Town of Appomattox Context triple: [Appomattox County, Virginia, contains, Town of Appomattox]
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A.
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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B.
Spotsylvania Courthouse
Spotsylvania Courthouse is an unincorporated community in Virginia best known as the historic center of Spotsylvania County and the site of significant Civil War events.
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C.
Chancellorsville Battlefield
Chancellorsville Battlefield is a major American Civil War site in Virginia where the 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville, one of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s most significant victories, took place.
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D.
Manassas National Battlefield Park
Manassas National Battlefield Park is a preserved Civil War battlefield in Virginia that commemorates the First and Second Battles of Bull Run through historic landscapes, monuments, and visitor exhibits.
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E.
Petersburg National Battlefield
Petersburg National Battlefield is a U.S. National Park Service site in Virginia that preserves and interprets the extensive Civil War siege of Petersburg, a decisive campaign leading to the fall of Richmond and the Confederacy’s collapse.
- 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: Town of Appomattox Triple: [Appomattox County, Virginia, contains, Town of Appomattox]
Generated description
The Town of Appomattox is a small historic community in central Virginia best known for its proximity to Appomattox Court House, where the Civil War effectively ended with General Robert E. Lee’s surrender in 1865.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Town of Appomattox Target entity description: The Town of Appomattox is a small historic community in central Virginia best known for its proximity to Appomattox Court House, where the Civil War effectively ended with General Robert E. Lee’s surrender in 1865.
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A.
Appomattox Court House, Virginia
chosen
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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B.
Spotsylvania Courthouse
Spotsylvania Courthouse is an unincorporated community in Virginia best known as the historic center of Spotsylvania County and the site of significant Civil War events.
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C.
Chancellorsville Battlefield
Chancellorsville Battlefield is a major American Civil War site in Virginia where the 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville, one of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s most significant victories, took place.
-
D.
Manassas National Battlefield Park
Manassas National Battlefield Park is a preserved Civil War battlefield in Virginia that commemorates the First and Second Battles of Bull Run through historic landscapes, monuments, and visitor exhibits.
-
E.
Petersburg National Battlefield
Petersburg National Battlefield is a U.S. National Park Service site in Virginia that preserves and interprets the extensive Civil War siege of Petersburg, a decisive campaign leading to the fall of Richmond and the Confederacy’s collapse.
- F. None of above.
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_69ad85d6dc3c8190b491b79b83e25461 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adc10f9b508190bde4a4e4711dd452 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 6:33 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b44efa419481908f07a9367adc4e42 |
completed | March 13, 2026, 5:52 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b4505350e4819085ef8cca532d9eda |
completed | March 13, 2026, 5:58 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b450a915b081908889b4c5ea2d3024 |
completed | March 13, 2026, 6 p.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:21 p.m.