Triple

T4082848
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Ridgefield E87517 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object William Erskine
William Erskine was a British Army officer and general during the American Revolutionary War, noted for his leadership in several key engagements.
E412168 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: William Erskine | Statement: [Battle of Ridgefield, commander, William Erskine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Erskine
Context triple: [Battle of Ridgefield, commander, William Erskine]
  • A. William Balfour
    William Balfour is an American man best known for being convicted of the 2008 murders of three relatives of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson.
  • B. Thomas Urquhart
    Thomas Urquhart was a 17th-century Scottish writer, translator, and eccentric known for his elaborate prose and early English translation of Rabelais.
  • C. Sir Eric Drummond
    Sir Eric Drummond was a British diplomat best known as the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, playing a key role in shaping early 20th-century international diplomacy.
  • D. Reginald McKenna
    Reginald McKenna was a British Liberal politician who held several senior government posts, including Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, during the early 20th century.
  • E. Charles Alling Gifford
    Charles Alling Gifford was an American architect known for designing prominent early 20th-century resort hotels and other large-scale buildings in the United States.
  • 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: William Erskine
Triple: [Battle of Ridgefield, commander, William Erskine]
Generated description
William Erskine was a British Army officer and general during the American Revolutionary War, noted for his leadership in several key engagements.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Erskine
Target entity description: William Erskine was a British Army officer and general during the American Revolutionary War, noted for his leadership in several key engagements.
  • A. William Balfour
    William Balfour is an American man best known for being convicted of the 2008 murders of three relatives of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson.
  • B. Thomas Urquhart
    Thomas Urquhart was a 17th-century Scottish writer, translator, and eccentric known for his elaborate prose and early English translation of Rabelais.
  • C. Sir Eric Drummond
    Sir Eric Drummond was a British diplomat best known as the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, playing a key role in shaping early 20th-century international diplomacy.
  • D. Reginald McKenna
    Reginald McKenna was a British Liberal politician who held several senior government posts, including Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, during the early 20th century.
  • E. Charles Alling Gifford
    Charles Alling Gifford was an American architect known for designing prominent early 20th-century resort hotels and other large-scale buildings in the United States.
  • 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_69aed9435cf48190ad1da737c962d19d completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aefc7933b481909bb3e02c6c04c8ee completed March 9, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b56b6067908190b9724c6d58bda305 completed March 14, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b56bdcfa94819096df212e6e99937e completed March 14, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b56c5e73e88190896176180a9e58cd completed March 14, 2026, 2:10 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:39 p.m.