Triple
T4344381
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Sylvanus Thayer |
E97863
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Sylvanus Thayer |
E97863
|
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: Sylvanus Thayer | Statement: [Sylvanus Thayer, fullName, Sylvanus Thayer]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sylvanus Thayer Context triple: [Sylvanus Thayer, fullName, Sylvanus Thayer]
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A.
Sylvanus Thayer
chosen
Sylvanus Thayer was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and engineer known as the “Father of the Military Academy” for his transformative leadership of the United States Military Academy at West Point.
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B.
Charles Devens
Charles Devens was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and U.S. Attorney General who also served as a judge and politician from Massachusetts.
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C.
William Eustis
William Eustis was an American physician, Revolutionary War veteran, and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of War under President James Madison.
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D.
Hiram Berdan
Hiram Berdan was a 19th-century American military officer, engineer, and inventor best known for creating innovative rifle designs and leading elite sharpshooter units during the American Civil War.
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E.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Thomas Wentworth Higginson was a 19th-century American Unitarian minister, abolitionist, women’s rights advocate, and author who also served as a colonel of the first federally authorized Black regiment in the Civil War.
- 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_69b34548402c819085ab68b27c235a87 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69b3518aa5cc8190b50f47b1070715fe |
completed | March 12, 2026, 11:51 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b5dba5d2488190b23a0358ffc994fb |
completed | March 14, 2026, 10:05 p.m. |
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:15 p.m.