Triple
T5720757
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Western Theater of the American Civil War |
E126136
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableUnionCommander |
P17957
|
FINISHED |
| Object | James B. McPherson |
E243527
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: James B. McPherson | Statement: [Western Theater of the American Civil War, notableUnionCommander, James B. McPherson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James B. McPherson Context triple: [Western Theater of the American Civil War, notableUnionCommander, James B. McPherson]
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A.
James B. McPherson
chosen
James B. McPherson was a prominent Union major general during the American Civil War, known for his leadership in the Western Theater and his death at the Battle of Atlanta.
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B.
James M. McPherson
James M. McPherson is a prominent American Civil War historian and author, best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning book "Battle Cry of Freedom."
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C.
Guy Levis Grant
Guy Levis Grant was an American dentist and educator best known as one of the ten founders of the historically Black fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi.
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D.
Charles A. Halleck
Charles A. Halleck was a prominent mid-20th-century Republican congressman from Indiana who served as a key party leader in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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E.
John Slidell
John Slidell was a 19th-century American politician and diplomat from Louisiana, known for his role in the lead-up to the Mexican–American War and his involvement in the Confederate diplomatic mission during the American Civil War.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69c0082e3d548190950169847b43043b |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c0335cf55c8190937a8657406ac4a2 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 6:22 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c05a7db0788190b4a5e7b5d9c94588 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 9:09 p.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:46 p.m.