Triple

T5149884
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fighting at the Peach Orchard E116166 entity
Predicate commanderConfederate P26186 FINISHED
Object William Barksdale
William Barksdale was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, noted for his aggressive leadership and prominent role in major battles such as Gettysburg.
E498728 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 Barksdale | Statement: [Fighting at the Peach Orchard, commanderConfederate, William Barksdale]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Barksdale
Context triple: [Fighting at the Peach Orchard, commanderConfederate, William Barksdale]
  • A. Beauregard Decker
    Beauregard Decker is a fictional character from the stage play "Bus Stop," typically portrayed as a central figure whose interactions drive much of the drama and humor in the story.
  • B. Patrick Cleburne
    Patrick Cleburne was an Irish-born Confederate major general in the American Civil War, renowned for his tactical skill and his controversial proposal to arm enslaved people in exchange for their freedom.
  • C. Earl Van Dorn
    Earl Van Dorn was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, known for his aggressive cavalry raids and controversial battlefield leadership in the Western Theater.
  • D. Edmund Kirby Smith
    Edmund Kirby Smith was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War who commanded the Trans-Mississippi Department and was one of the last Confederate leaders to surrender.
  • E. Edmund P. Gaines
    Edmund P. Gaines was a prominent U.S. Army officer of the early 19th century, noted for his leadership in frontier conflicts and the War of 1812.
  • 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 Barksdale
Triple: [Fighting at the Peach Orchard, commanderConfederate, William Barksdale]
Generated description
William Barksdale was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, noted for his aggressive leadership and prominent role in major battles such as Gettysburg.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Barksdale
Target entity description: William Barksdale was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, noted for his aggressive leadership and prominent role in major battles such as Gettysburg.
  • A. Beauregard Decker
    Beauregard Decker is a fictional character from the stage play "Bus Stop," typically portrayed as a central figure whose interactions drive much of the drama and humor in the story.
  • B. Patrick Cleburne
    Patrick Cleburne was an Irish-born Confederate major general in the American Civil War, renowned for his tactical skill and his controversial proposal to arm enslaved people in exchange for their freedom.
  • C. Earl Van Dorn
    Earl Van Dorn was a Confederate major general in the American Civil War, known for his aggressive cavalry raids and controversial battlefield leadership in the Western Theater.
  • D. Edmund Kirby Smith
    Edmund Kirby Smith was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War who commanded the Trans-Mississippi Department and was one of the last Confederate leaders to surrender.
  • E. Edmund P. Gaines
    Edmund P. Gaines was a prominent U.S. Army officer of the early 19th century, noted for his leadership in frontier conflicts and the War of 1812.
  • 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_69bd4446c0e08190a7c29dc74976bf03 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd78b2a1748190b896ba0f53927118 completed March 20, 2026, 4:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69becfff6e8c8190883fc981fca95f48 completed March 21, 2026, 5:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bed3fd1d0081908d7fcaccd6e337ee completed March 21, 2026, 5:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bed4817390819090d48b0784c78ca3 completed March 21, 2026, 5:25 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:43 p.m.