Triple

T4455649
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Port Hudson E97714 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object William N. R. Beall
William N. R. Beall was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in the Western Theater, including at Port Hudson.
E442193 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 N. R. Beall | Statement: [Battle of Port Hudson, commander, William N. R. Beall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William N. R. Beall
Context triple: [Battle of Port Hudson, commander, William N. R. Beall]
  • A. Allen M. Davey
    Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
  • B. Franklin H. Martin
    Franklin H. Martin was an American surgeon and medical leader best known for founding and guiding the development of the American College of Surgeons.
  • C. Richard T. Rives
    Richard T. Rives was a U.S. federal appellate judge known for his influential civil rights decisions during the mid-20th century, particularly in cases challenging racial segregation in the American South.
  • D. Edwin E. Witte
    Edwin E. Witte was an American economist and civil servant known as the “father of Social Security” for his central role in drafting the U.S. Social Security Act of 1935.
  • E. Thomas Prosser
    Thomas Prosser was a 19th-century British railway architect best known for designing major stations such as York railway station.
  • 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 N. R. Beall
Triple: [Battle of Port Hudson, commander, William N. R. Beall]
Generated description
William N. R. Beall was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in the Western Theater, including at Port Hudson.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William N. R. Beall
Target entity description: William N. R. Beall was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in the Western Theater, including at Port Hudson.
  • A. Allen M. Davey
    Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
  • B. Franklin H. Martin
    Franklin H. Martin was an American surgeon and medical leader best known for founding and guiding the development of the American College of Surgeons.
  • C. Richard T. Rives
    Richard T. Rives was a U.S. federal appellate judge known for his influential civil rights decisions during the mid-20th century, particularly in cases challenging racial segregation in the American South.
  • D. Edwin E. Witte
    Edwin E. Witte was an American economist and civil servant known as the “father of Social Security” for his central role in drafting the U.S. Social Security Act of 1935.
  • E. Thomas Prosser
    Thomas Prosser was a 19th-century British railway architect best known for designing major stations such as York railway station.
  • 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_69b3454777808190b78aa9047ba1f018 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b355f79ca481909338dda9f4f7171f completed March 13, 2026, 12:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b6282743e08190a2c84f3b80c6d260 completed March 15, 2026, 3:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b62af29d3c81908cb82d142c2a55a4 completed March 15, 2026, 3:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b62ba4d6c88190b4eaacd09a0b2b66 completed March 15, 2026, 3:46 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:33 p.m.