Triple
T6793157
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Richard S. Ewell |
E155984
|
entity |
| Predicate | participatedIn |
P149
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Defense of Richmond |
E177160
|
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: Defense of Richmond | Statement: [Richard S. Ewell, participatedIn, Defense of Richmond]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Defense of Richmond Context triple: [Richard S. Ewell, participatedIn, Defense of Richmond]
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A.
Overland Campaign
The Overland Campaign was a major series of brutal Civil War battles in Virginia in 1864, pitting Ulysses S. Grant’s Union forces against Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia in a relentless war of attrition.
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B.
Richmond–Petersburg Campaign
chosen
The Richmond–Petersburg Campaign was a prolonged series of American Civil War battles in 1864–1865 in which Union forces sought to cut off and capture the Confederate strongholds of Richmond and Petersburg, leading directly to the collapse of the Confederacy.
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C.
“The March into Virginia”
“The March into Virginia” is a Civil War–themed poem by Herman Melville included in his collection *Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War*, reflecting on the experiences and emotions of soldiers entering the conflict.
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D.
Appomattox Campaign
The Appomattox Campaign was the final series of military operations in the American Civil War that led to the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia in April 1865.
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E.
Battle of Fort Stedman
The Battle of Fort Stedman was a late-March 1865 Confederate breakout attempt against Union lines near Petersburg, Virginia, whose failure hastened the collapse of Robert E. Lee’s army and the end of 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_69c6881844448190a65822d9b39d7f88 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6d2af6f908190809e39b73894e513 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 6:55 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c71a8eaefc819098e848b3012da749 |
completed | March 28, 2026, 12:02 a.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:15 p.m.