Triple

T7143746
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Koh Tang E166512 entity
Predicate commandedBy P1407 FINISHED
Object John J. Burns
John J. Burns was a U.S. military officer best known for commanding American forces during the 1975 Battle of Koh Tang, the final official battle of the Vietnam War era.
E804625 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: John J. Burns | Statement: [Battle of Koh Tang, commandedBy, John J. Burns]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John J. Burns
Context triple: [Battle of Koh Tang, commandedBy, John J. Burns]
  • A. John L. Burns
    John L. Burns was a veteran of the War of 1812 who became famous as the elderly civilian sharpshooter who fought alongside Union troops during the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War.
  • B. James L. Buckley
    James L. Buckley was an American conservative politician, jurist, and author who served as a U.S. Senator from New York and later as a federal appellate judge.
  • C. John A. Burns
    John A. Burns was a prominent American politician who served as the second governor of Hawaii and played a key role in the state's Democratic Party and post-statehood development.
  • D. Edward P. Doherty
    Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
  • E. Joseph B. Keenan
    Joseph B. Keenan was an American lawyer and U.S. Assistant Attorney General who served as the chief prosecutor in the post–World War II Tokyo war crimes trials.
  • 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: John J. Burns
Triple: [Battle of Koh Tang, commandedBy, John J. Burns]
Generated description
John J. Burns was a U.S. military officer best known for commanding American forces during the 1975 Battle of Koh Tang, the final official battle of the Vietnam War era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John J. Burns
Target entity description: John J. Burns was a U.S. military officer best known for commanding American forces during the 1975 Battle of Koh Tang, the final official battle of the Vietnam War era.
  • A. John L. Burns
    John L. Burns was a veteran of the War of 1812 who became famous as the elderly civilian sharpshooter who fought alongside Union troops during the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War.
  • B. James L. Buckley
    James L. Buckley was an American conservative politician, jurist, and author who served as a U.S. Senator from New York and later as a federal appellate judge.
  • C. John A. Burns
    John A. Burns was a prominent American politician who served as the second governor of Hawaii and played a key role in the state's Democratic Party and post-statehood development.
  • D. Edward P. Doherty
    Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
  • E. Joseph B. Keenan
    Joseph B. Keenan was an American lawyer and U.S. Assistant Attorney General who served as the chief prosecutor in the post–World War II Tokyo war crimes trials.
  • 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_69c6888579d481909e05a8d6b81bf733 completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e7d027d0819088598b2a9f71b1b7 completed March 27, 2026, 8:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d14ba9a9a8819086d7b5255b0af3e5 completed April 4, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d14cbfcbbc8190b6601a99dc773cb3 completed April 4, 2026, 5:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d14d29d32c8190a8615b3450492abc completed April 4, 2026, 5:40 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:46 p.m.