Triple

T7566751
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Shepherdstown E178932 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object Battle of Blackford’s Ford
The Battle of Blackford’s Ford was a minor but strategically significant American Civil War engagement in September 1862, fought along the Potomac River in the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam as Union forces probed Robert E. Lee’s retreating Confederate army.
E679074 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: Battle of Blackford’s Ford | Statement: [Battle of Shepherdstown, alsoKnownAs, Battle of Blackford’s Ford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Blackford’s Ford
Context triple: [Battle of Shepherdstown, alsoKnownAs, Battle of Blackford’s Ford]
  • A. Battle of Boteler’s Ford
    The Battle of Boteler’s Ford was a minor but consequential American Civil War engagement fought on the Potomac River in September 1862, immediately after the Battle of Antietam, as Union forces pursued Robert E. Lee’s retreating Confederate army.
  • B. Battle of Matson’s Ford
    The Battle of Matson’s Ford was a minor engagement of the American Revolutionary War in December 1777, in which British forces disrupted Continental Army movements near the Schuylkill River during the Philadelphia campaign.
  • C. Battle of Loudoun Hill
    The Battle of Loudoun Hill was a 1307 engagement in the Wars of Scottish Independence where Robert the Bruce won a significant early victory against English forces, bolstering his campaign to secure Scotland’s crown.
  • D. Battle of Bloody Brook
    The Battle of Bloody Brook was a 1675 ambush during King Philip’s War in which Native American forces decimated a colonial militia escorting a grain convoy near present-day South Deerfield, Massachusetts.
  • E. Battle of Hunterstown
    The Battle of Hunterstown was a minor cavalry engagement of the American Civil War fought on July 2, 1863, near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, involving Union and Confederate horsemen in the broader context of the Gettysburg Campaign.
  • 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: Battle of Blackford’s Ford
Triple: [Battle of Shepherdstown, alsoKnownAs, Battle of Blackford’s Ford]
Generated description
The Battle of Blackford’s Ford was a minor but strategically significant American Civil War engagement in September 1862, fought along the Potomac River in the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam as Union forces probed Robert E. Lee’s retreating Confederate army.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Battle of Blackford’s Ford
Target entity description: The Battle of Blackford’s Ford was a minor but strategically significant American Civil War engagement in September 1862, fought along the Potomac River in the aftermath of the Battle of Antietam as Union forces probed Robert E. Lee’s retreating Confederate army.
  • A. Battle of Boteler’s Ford chosen
    The Battle of Boteler’s Ford was a minor but consequential American Civil War engagement fought on the Potomac River in September 1862, immediately after the Battle of Antietam, as Union forces pursued Robert E. Lee’s retreating Confederate army.
  • B. Battle of Matson’s Ford
    The Battle of Matson’s Ford was a minor engagement of the American Revolutionary War in December 1777, in which British forces disrupted Continental Army movements near the Schuylkill River during the Philadelphia campaign.
  • C. Battle of Loudoun Hill
    The Battle of Loudoun Hill was a 1307 engagement in the Wars of Scottish Independence where Robert the Bruce won a significant early victory against English forces, bolstering his campaign to secure Scotland’s crown.
  • D. Battle of Bloody Brook
    The Battle of Bloody Brook was a 1675 ambush during King Philip’s War in which Native American forces decimated a colonial militia escorting a grain convoy near present-day South Deerfield, Massachusetts.
  • E. Battle of Hunterstown
    The Battle of Hunterstown was a minor cavalry engagement of the American Civil War fought on July 2, 1863, near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, involving Union and Confederate horsemen in the broader context of the Gettysburg Campaign.
  • F. None of above.

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_69c69f2f80288190b95cceb4da92ab2b completed March 27, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f91c717881909c88901cc3b101c7 completed March 27, 2026, 9:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8a2083fdc8190b44e84e02ac3ef0a completed March 29, 2026, 3:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8a2ad204081908bc3a8a0ac782cd6 completed March 29, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8a31c86d481908f57855089338f94 completed March 29, 2026, 3:57 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:50 p.m.