Triple

T5303067
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James M. McPherson E120029 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War is a historical study by James M. McPherson that analyzes the personal motivations and ideological convictions that led Union and Confederate soldiers to fight in the American Civil War.
E509621 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: For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War | Statement: [James M. McPherson, notableWork, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
Context triple: [James M. McPherson, notableWork, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War]
  • A. Price of Freedom: Americans at War
    "Price of Freedom: Americans at War" is a long-term exhibition that explores the experiences, sacrifices, and impacts of Americans in military conflicts from the Revolutionary War to the present.
  • B. The True Story of the Civil War
    The True Story of the Civil War is a short documentary film that presents an overview of the American Civil War using period photographs, documents, and narration to depict the conflict’s major events and significance.
  • C. The Blue and the Gray
    The Blue and the Gray is a 1982 American television miniseries that dramatizes the American Civil War through the intertwined lives of two families on opposing sides of the conflict.
  • D. The Killer Angels
    The Killer Angels is Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize–winning historical novel about the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
  • E. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
    Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era is James M. McPherson’s acclaimed one-volume history of the American Civil War, renowned for its comprehensive narrative and scholarly insight.
  • 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: For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
Triple: [James M. McPherson, notableWork, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War]
Generated description
For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War is a historical study by James M. McPherson that analyzes the personal motivations and ideological convictions that led Union and Confederate soldiers to fight in the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War
Target entity description: For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War is a historical study by James M. McPherson that analyzes the personal motivations and ideological convictions that led Union and Confederate soldiers to fight in the American Civil War.
  • A. Price of Freedom: Americans at War
    "Price of Freedom: Americans at War" is a long-term exhibition that explores the experiences, sacrifices, and impacts of Americans in military conflicts from the Revolutionary War to the present.
  • B. The True Story of the Civil War
    The True Story of the Civil War is a short documentary film that presents an overview of the American Civil War using period photographs, documents, and narration to depict the conflict’s major events and significance.
  • C. The Blue and the Gray
    The Blue and the Gray is a 1982 American television miniseries that dramatizes the American Civil War through the intertwined lives of two families on opposing sides of the conflict.
  • D. The Killer Angels
    The Killer Angels is Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize–winning historical novel about the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
  • E. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
    Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era is James M. McPherson’s acclaimed one-volume history of the American Civil War, renowned for its comprehensive narrative and scholarly insight.
  • 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_69bd44704be88190acdb2ac481b0ff55 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd851b685c8190b7ed8c762a807395 completed March 20, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf10f3b9ac81909cd2ca2278b11d3e completed March 21, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf11635b9c819092130c46caea9306 completed March 21, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf11e982d08190bc74312bf6ee7127 completed March 21, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:53 p.m.