Triple

T5859607
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Badge of Military Merit E130242 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Sergeant William Brown
Sergeant William Brown was an American Revolutionary War soldier recognized for his valor as one of the earliest recipients of the Badge of Military Merit, a precursor to the Purple Heart.
E554158 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: Sergeant William Brown | Statement: [Badge of Military Merit, notableRecipient, Sergeant William Brown]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sergeant William Brown
Context triple: [Badge of Military Merit, notableRecipient, Sergeant William Brown]
  • A. Corporal Henderson
    Corporal Henderson is a fictional military character typically depicted as a low-ranking non-commissioned officer, often used as a generic or placeholder name in stories or examples.
  • B. Sergeant Thomas Durrant
    Sergeant Thomas Durrant was a British Army non-commissioned officer of the Second World War who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his extraordinary bravery during the St Nazaire raid in 1942.
  • C. Sergeant Waters
    Sergeant Waters is a complex, embittered Black non-commissioned officer in the film and play "A Soldier's Story," whose internalized racism and harsh leadership drive much of the story's central conflict.
  • D. Lance-Corporal James Welch
    Lance-Corporal James Welch was a British Army soldier and First World War Victoria Cross recipient renowned for his conspicuous bravery in combat.
  • E. Sergeant Elijah Churchill
    Sergeant Elijah Churchill was an American Revolutionary War soldier in the Continental Army, distinguished for his bravery in combat and recognized as one of the first recipients of what would later evolve into the Purple Heart.
  • 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: Sergeant William Brown
Triple: [Badge of Military Merit, notableRecipient, Sergeant William Brown]
Generated description
Sergeant William Brown was an American Revolutionary War soldier recognized for his valor as one of the earliest recipients of the Badge of Military Merit, a precursor to the Purple Heart.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sergeant William Brown
Target entity description: Sergeant William Brown was an American Revolutionary War soldier recognized for his valor as one of the earliest recipients of the Badge of Military Merit, a precursor to the Purple Heart.
  • A. Corporal Henderson
    Corporal Henderson is a fictional military character typically depicted as a low-ranking non-commissioned officer, often used as a generic or placeholder name in stories or examples.
  • B. Sergeant Thomas Durrant
    Sergeant Thomas Durrant was a British Army non-commissioned officer of the Second World War who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his extraordinary bravery during the St Nazaire raid in 1942.
  • C. Sergeant Waters
    Sergeant Waters is a complex, embittered Black non-commissioned officer in the film and play "A Soldier's Story," whose internalized racism and harsh leadership drive much of the story's central conflict.
  • D. Lance-Corporal James Welch
    Lance-Corporal James Welch was a British Army soldier and First World War Victoria Cross recipient renowned for his conspicuous bravery in combat.
  • E. Sergeant Elijah Churchill
    Sergeant Elijah Churchill was an American Revolutionary War soldier in the Continental Army, distinguished for his bravery in combat and recognized as one of the first recipients of what would later evolve into the Purple Heart.
  • 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_69c0084f3bb08190a7720f55f7aa4252 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0358790b88190a5e3c6473172dc53 completed March 22, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0b10b55a88190b525405b1e20ea77 completed March 23, 2026, 3:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0b22d661c8190a055abd3ca6fa92f completed March 23, 2026, 3:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0b608a10881908c9bca7d09a99b05 completed March 23, 2026, 3:39 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:56 p.m.