Triple

T4864682
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Buffalo Soldiers E108738 entity
Predicate decoratedMember P59477 FINISHED
Object Benjamin O. Davis Sr.
Benjamin O. Davis Sr. was a pioneering U.S. Army officer who became the first African American general in the United States military and a key leader in the fight against racial segregation in the armed forces.
E476136 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: Benjamin O. Davis Sr. | Statement: [Buffalo Soldiers, decoratedMember, Benjamin O. Davis Sr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin O. Davis Sr.
Context triple: [Buffalo Soldiers, decoratedMember, Benjamin O. Davis Sr.]
  • A. Henry O. Flipper
    Henry O. Flipper was the first African American graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a pioneering Black officer in the U.S. Army.
  • B. Wilbert Montgomery
    Wilbert Montgomery is a former NFL running back best known for his prolific rushing career with the Philadelphia Eagles in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including key performances that helped lead the team to Super Bowl XV.
  • C. Oliver Otis Howard
    Oliver Otis Howard was a Union Civil War general and prominent Reconstruction-era leader who later became a key advocate for African American education and civil rights.
  • D. Frank W. Ferguson
    Frank W. Ferguson was an American architect best known as a professional partner of prominent Gothic Revival architect Ralph Adams Cram.
  • E. Henry Arnold
    Henry Arnold is the son of Margaret Mansfield, known primarily through his familial connection to her.
  • 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: Benjamin O. Davis Sr.
Triple: [Buffalo Soldiers, decoratedMember, Benjamin O. Davis Sr.]
Generated description
Benjamin O. Davis Sr. was a pioneering U.S. Army officer who became the first African American general in the United States military and a key leader in the fight against racial segregation in the armed forces.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Benjamin O. Davis Sr.
Target entity description: Benjamin O. Davis Sr. was a pioneering U.S. Army officer who became the first African American general in the United States military and a key leader in the fight against racial segregation in the armed forces.
  • A. Henry O. Flipper
    Henry O. Flipper was the first African American graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a pioneering Black officer in the U.S. Army.
  • B. Wilbert Montgomery
    Wilbert Montgomery is a former NFL running back best known for his prolific rushing career with the Philadelphia Eagles in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including key performances that helped lead the team to Super Bowl XV.
  • C. Oliver Otis Howard
    Oliver Otis Howard was a Union Civil War general and prominent Reconstruction-era leader who later became a key advocate for African American education and civil rights.
  • D. Frank W. Ferguson
    Frank W. Ferguson was an American architect best known as a professional partner of prominent Gothic Revival architect Ralph Adams Cram.
  • E. Henry Arnold
    Henry Arnold is the son of Margaret Mansfield, known primarily through his familial connection to her.
  • 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_69bd440b965081908b0557721cae6338 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7162427c81908a67a07545f698ae completed March 20, 2026, 4:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be67e0d88881909e378e919daab4e6 completed March 21, 2026, 9:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be68a465b881909dd2d0d090a6b0ee completed March 21, 2026, 9:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be691c8d948190ba9e6feb4ab39a18 completed March 21, 2026, 9:47 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:26 p.m.