Triple

T8177313
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shields E190968 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object James Shields (Civil War general)
James Shields (Civil War general) was an Irish-born American military officer and politician who served as a Union general in the American Civil War and uniquely represented three different U.S. states in the Senate.
E716401 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: James Shields (Civil War general) | Statement: [Shields, hasNotableBearer, James Shields (Civil War general)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Shields (Civil War general)
Context triple: [Shields, hasNotableBearer, James Shields (Civil War general)]
  • A. Robert S. Garnett
    Robert S. Garnett was an American artist best known for creating the original design of the Great Seal of the State of California.
  • B. Henry Bowyer Lane
    Henry Bowyer Lane was a 19th-century architect known for his influential work on prominent Canadian public buildings.
  • C. Gideon J. Pillow
    Gideon J. Pillow was a controversial American lawyer, politician, and general who served in both the Mexican–American War and the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
  • D. Joseph Wheeler
    Joseph Wheeler was a prominent American military officer who served as a Confederate cavalry general during the Civil War and later as a U.S. Army general in the Spanish–American War.
  • E. John Schofield
    John Schofield was a Union Army general during the American Civil War who later served as U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army.
  • 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: James Shields (Civil War general)
Triple: [Shields, hasNotableBearer, James Shields (Civil War general)]
Generated description
James Shields (Civil War general) was an Irish-born American military officer and politician who served as a Union general in the American Civil War and uniquely represented three different U.S. states in the Senate.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Shields (Civil War general)
Target entity description: James Shields (Civil War general) was an Irish-born American military officer and politician who served as a Union general in the American Civil War and uniquely represented three different U.S. states in the Senate.
  • A. Robert S. Garnett
    Robert S. Garnett was an American artist best known for creating the original design of the Great Seal of the State of California.
  • B. Henry Bowyer Lane
    Henry Bowyer Lane was a 19th-century architect known for his influential work on prominent Canadian public buildings.
  • C. Gideon J. Pillow
    Gideon J. Pillow was a controversial American lawyer, politician, and general who served in both the Mexican–American War and the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
  • D. Joseph Wheeler
    Joseph Wheeler was a prominent American military officer who served as a Confederate cavalry general during the Civil War and later as a U.S. Army general in the Spanish–American War.
  • E. John Schofield
    John Schofield was a Union Army general during the American Civil War who later served as U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army.
  • 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_69ca82c1c0a08190bf8692b4d91a03ca completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb4aba0dd88190828080d0d89612eb completed March 31, 2026, 4:16 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ccbf7f02d08190a6cedc37b64a0d9e completed April 1, 2026, 6:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ccc313ba7c81909b9ee65b37ed165e completed April 1, 2026, 7:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ccd85aa2888190bd167148b21a3f93 completed April 1, 2026, 8:33 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:40 p.m.