Triple

T5270778
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 16th Michigan Infantry E119250 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object Colonel Thomas B. W. Stockton
Colonel Thomas B. W. Stockton was a Union Army officer and regimental leader from Michigan who served prominently during the American Civil War.
E514765 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: Colonel Thomas B. W. Stockton | Statement: [16th Michigan Infantry, commander, Colonel Thomas B. W. Stockton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Thomas B. W. Stockton
Context triple: [16th Michigan Infantry, commander, Colonel Thomas B. W. Stockton]
  • A. Colonel John W. McLane
    Colonel John W. McLane was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War best known for leading the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry in key engagements such as the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • B. Colonel Maxcy Gregg
    Colonel Maxcy Gregg was a Confederate officer and brigade commander from South Carolina who fought in several major battles of the American Civil War before being mortally wounded at Fredericksburg.
  • C. Colonel Alexander Bliss
    Colonel Alexander Bliss was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for requesting and preserving one of the authoritative manuscript copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
  • D. William Meade
    William Meade was a prominent 19th-century American Episcopal bishop and religious leader known for his influential role in the church and in Virginia society.
  • E. Brigadier General Daniel Tyler
    Brigadier General Daniel Tyler was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, known for his early-war command roles and involvement in key Eastern Theater operations.
  • 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: Colonel Thomas B. W. Stockton
Triple: [16th Michigan Infantry, commander, Colonel Thomas B. W. Stockton]
Generated description
Colonel Thomas B. W. Stockton was a Union Army officer and regimental leader from Michigan who served prominently during the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Thomas B. W. Stockton
Target entity description: Colonel Thomas B. W. Stockton was a Union Army officer and regimental leader from Michigan who served prominently during the American Civil War.
  • A. Colonel John W. McLane
    Colonel John W. McLane was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War best known for leading the 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry in key engagements such as the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • B. Colonel Maxcy Gregg
    Colonel Maxcy Gregg was a Confederate officer and brigade commander from South Carolina who fought in several major battles of the American Civil War before being mortally wounded at Fredericksburg.
  • C. Colonel Alexander Bliss
    Colonel Alexander Bliss was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for requesting and preserving one of the authoritative manuscript copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
  • D. William Meade
    William Meade was a prominent 19th-century American Episcopal bishop and religious leader known for his influential role in the church and in Virginia society.
  • E. Brigadier General Daniel Tyler
    Brigadier General Daniel Tyler was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, known for his early-war command roles and involvement in key Eastern Theater operations.
  • 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_69bd446c38e081908cdaf113bdf86790 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7bff37cc819095423cf914086c1b completed March 20, 2026, 4:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf290430a08190bf4f00a558d5a1fa completed March 21, 2026, 11:25 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf29886f00819096639d721a4a5d80 completed March 21, 2026, 11:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf29e25d80819094f03f02234c357b completed March 21, 2026, 11:29 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:51 p.m.