Triple

T445377
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Irish Confederate Wars E7004 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Thomas Preston
Thomas Preston was a 17th-century Irish soldier and nobleman who became a leading general of the Confederate Catholic forces during the Irish Confederate Wars.
E64288 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: Thomas Preston | Statement: [Irish Confederate Wars, commander, Thomas Preston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Preston
Context triple: [Irish Confederate Wars, commander, Thomas Preston]
  • A. Captain Thomas Preston
    Captain Thomas Preston was the British Army officer who commanded the soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre, a pivotal event leading up to the American Revolution.
  • B. Samuel Arnold
    Samuel Arnold was an American Confederate sympathizer best known for his role as one of the conspirators involved in the plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
  • C. Marinus Willett
    Marinus Willett was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New York, known for his active role in colonial resistance and later service as mayor of New York City.
  • D. Horatio Gates
    Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
  • E. Francis Smith
    Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
  • 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: Thomas Preston
Triple: [Irish Confederate Wars, commander, Thomas Preston]
Generated description
Thomas Preston was a 17th-century Irish soldier and nobleman who became a leading general of the Confederate Catholic forces during the Irish Confederate Wars.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Preston
Target entity description: Thomas Preston was a 17th-century Irish soldier and nobleman who became a leading general of the Confederate Catholic forces during the Irish Confederate Wars.
  • A. Captain Thomas Preston
    Captain Thomas Preston was the British Army officer who commanded the soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre, a pivotal event leading up to the American Revolution.
  • B. Samuel Arnold
    Samuel Arnold was an American Confederate sympathizer best known for his role as one of the conspirators involved in the plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
  • C. Marinus Willett
    Marinus Willett was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from New York, known for his active role in colonial resistance and later service as mayor of New York City.
  • D. Horatio Gates
    Horatio Gates was a British-born American general who played a prominent and controversial leadership role for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, particularly at the Battle of Saratoga.
  • E. Francis Smith
    Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
  • 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_69a2e7e4676c81909ea0dbdecac0687c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ef479ec08190a659eead6eb0d4d0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4a426771c8190a5d1dc6a80a9c1d2 completed March 1, 2026, 8:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4a49eac5c8190bd85226bfb9309f2 completed March 1, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4a5597fe88190ab40a6e725cd138d completed March 1, 2026, 8:45 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.