Triple

T8125476
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Second Battle of Petersburg E189715 entity
Predicate precededBy P97 FINISHED
Object First Battle of Petersburg
The First Battle of Petersburg was an early June 1864 American Civil War engagement in which Union forces unsuccessfully attempted to seize the vital railroad hub of Petersburg, Virginia, from Confederate defenders.
E189715 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: First Battle of Petersburg | Statement: [Second Battle of Petersburg, precededBy, First Battle of Petersburg]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: First Battle of Petersburg
Context triple: [Second Battle of Petersburg, precededBy, First Battle of Petersburg]
  • A. First Battle of Winchester
    The First Battle of Winchester was a major early American Civil War engagement in May 1862, in which Confederate forces under Stonewall Jackson defeated Union troops, contributing to his famed Shenandoah Valley Campaign.
  • B. Siege of Petersburg
    The Siege of Petersburg was a prolonged series of trench warfare operations in 1864–1865 around Petersburg, Virginia, whose eventual Union victory cut off Confederate supply lines and led directly to the fall of Richmond and the end of the American Civil War.
  • C. Second Battle of Petersburg
    The Second Battle of Petersburg was a key June 1864 American Civil War clash in Virginia in which failed Union assaults against Confederate defenses led directly to the prolonged Siege of Petersburg.
  • D. Third Battle of Petersburg
    The Third Battle of Petersburg was the decisive Union assault in April 1865 that broke Confederate defenses around Petersburg, leading directly to the fall of Richmond and the endgame of the American Civil War.
  • E. Battle of Williamsburg
    The Battle of Williamsburg was an early and inconclusive Civil War engagement in May 1862 in Virginia, fought as Union forces pursued the retreating Confederates during the Peninsula 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: First Battle of Petersburg
Triple: [Second Battle of Petersburg, precededBy, First Battle of Petersburg]
Generated description
The First Battle of Petersburg was an early June 1864 American Civil War engagement in which Union forces unsuccessfully attempted to seize the vital railroad hub of Petersburg, Virginia, from Confederate defenders.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: First Battle of Petersburg
Target entity description: The First Battle of Petersburg was an early June 1864 American Civil War engagement in which Union forces unsuccessfully attempted to seize the vital railroad hub of Petersburg, Virginia, from Confederate defenders.
  • A. First Battle of Winchester
    The First Battle of Winchester was a major early American Civil War engagement in May 1862, in which Confederate forces under Stonewall Jackson defeated Union troops, contributing to his famed Shenandoah Valley Campaign.
  • B. Siege of Petersburg
    The Siege of Petersburg was a prolonged series of trench warfare operations in 1864–1865 around Petersburg, Virginia, whose eventual Union victory cut off Confederate supply lines and led directly to the fall of Richmond and the end of the American Civil War.
  • C. Second Battle of Petersburg chosen
    The Second Battle of Petersburg was a key June 1864 American Civil War clash in Virginia in which failed Union assaults against Confederate defenses led directly to the prolonged Siege of Petersburg.
  • D. Third Battle of Petersburg
    The Third Battle of Petersburg was the decisive Union assault in April 1865 that broke Confederate defenses around Petersburg, leading directly to the fall of Richmond and the endgame of the American Civil War.
  • E. Battle of Williamsburg
    The Battle of Williamsburg was an early and inconclusive Civil War engagement in May 1862 in Virginia, fought as Union forces pursued the retreating Confederates during the Peninsula 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_69ca82bb74848190afb1f18640632c10 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb438eb778819085296e6cbfa2e70d completed March 31, 2026, 3:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cc946b44d08190a042932ee908dc2f completed April 1, 2026, 3:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc95c0b19881908521cce5ac0fe197 completed April 1, 2026, 3:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc96fa03d881909a1eeed6af9a3149 completed April 1, 2026, 3:54 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:34 p.m.