Triple

T8557
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject United States Army Signal Corps E170 entity
Predicate conflictInvolved P375 FINISHED
Object American Civil War
The American Civil War was a major 19th-century conflict fought from 1861 to 1865 between the Northern Union states and the Southern Confederate states, primarily over slavery and states’ rights, that reshaped the political and social landscape of the United States.
E1006 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: American Civil War | Statement: [United States Army Signal Corps, conflictInvolved, American Civil War]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American Civil War
Context triple: [United States Army Signal Corps, conflictInvolved, American Civil War]
  • A. Battles of Lexington and Concord
    The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the opening military engagements of the American Revolutionary War, marking the start of armed conflict between Great Britain and its thirteen American colonies in April 1775.
  • B. World War II
    World War II was a global conflict from 1939 to 1945 involving most of the world’s nations, marked by unprecedented destruction, the Holocaust, and the use of atomic weapons, and resulting in a major reshaping of the international order.
  • C. Winter War
    The Winter War was a 1939–1940 conflict in which the Soviet Union invaded Finland, leading to fierce Finnish resistance in harsh Arctic conditions and significant casualties on both sides.
  • D. Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
    The Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) was a major conflict between China and Japan that became one of the largest and bloodiest theaters of World War II in East Asia.
  • E. Battle of Guadalcanal
    The Battle of Guadalcanal was a major World War II campaign in the Pacific where Allied forces fought to halt Japanese expansion and secure strategic control of the Solomon Islands.
  • 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: American Civil War
Triple: [United States Army Signal Corps, conflictInvolved, American Civil War]
Generated description
The American Civil War was a major 19th-century conflict fought from 1861 to 1865 between the Northern Union states and the Southern Confederate states, primarily over slavery and states’ rights, that reshaped the political and social landscape of the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American Civil War
Target entity description: The American Civil War was a major 19th-century conflict fought from 1861 to 1865 between the Northern Union states and the Southern Confederate states, primarily over slavery and states’ rights, that reshaped the political and social landscape of the United States.
  • A. Battles of Lexington and Concord
    The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the opening military engagements of the American Revolutionary War, marking the start of armed conflict between Great Britain and its thirteen American colonies in April 1775.
  • B. World War II
    World War II was a global conflict from 1939 to 1945 involving most of the world’s nations, marked by unprecedented destruction, the Holocaust, and the use of atomic weapons, and resulting in a major reshaping of the international order.
  • C. Winter War
    The Winter War was a 1939–1940 conflict in which the Soviet Union invaded Finland, leading to fierce Finnish resistance in harsh Arctic conditions and significant casualties on both sides.
  • D. Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
    The Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) was a major conflict between China and Japan that became one of the largest and bloodiest theaters of World War II in East Asia.
  • E. Battle of Guadalcanal
    The Battle of Guadalcanal was a major World War II campaign in the Pacific where Allied forces fought to halt Japanese expansion and secure strategic control of the Solomon Islands.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: conflictInvolved
Context triple: [United States Army Signal Corps, conflictInvolved, American Civil War]
  • A. militaryConflict
    Indicates a relationship where two or more parties are engaged in organized, armed hostilities or warfare against each other.
  • B. conflictSide chosen
    Indicates that an entity participates as a distinct party or faction on one side of a conflict or dispute.
  • C. officeContested
    Indicates that a particular office or position is being actively sought or challenged by multiple parties in an election or selection process.
  • D. enteredIntoForce
    Indicates that a law, treaty, agreement, or regulation has become legally effective and binding from a specific point in time.
  • E. opposedBy
    Indicates that one entity actively resists, disagrees with, or works against the actions, views, or position of another entity.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69a23bb612708190b09f25385e4b63d1 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2407916ac8190b76d2e6690efaef3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a243c87d988190a9d0649c4a04c7b7 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2464617148190ae1b5e316dd37efe completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a246bff58481908eebdbcb88e1ff78 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:37 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a23fe3a87881909ab95bb3a0b474ec completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:07 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 12:54 a.m.