Triple

T8595408
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of High Bridge E203531 entity
Predicate relatedEvent P37 FINISHED
Object Surrender at Appomattox Court House
The Surrender at Appomattox Court House was the April 9, 1865 meeting where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending major combat in the American Civil War.
E213644 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: Surrender at Appomattox Court House | Statement: [Battle of High Bridge, relatedEvent, Surrender at Appomattox Court House]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Surrender at Appomattox Court House
Context triple: [Battle of High Bridge, relatedEvent, Surrender at Appomattox Court House]
  • A. Battle of Appomattox Court House
    The Battle of Appomattox Court House was the final major engagement of the American Civil War in Virginia, leading to General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865.
  • B. Bennett Place surrender
    The Bennett Place surrender was the largest troop capitulation of the American Civil War, marking the effective end of major Confederate resistance in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida.
  • C. Battle of Appomattox Station
    The Battle of Appomattox Station was a late–Civil War engagement in April 1865 in which Union forces captured Confederate supply trains near Appomattox, hastening General Robert E. Lee’s surrender.
  • D. Appomattox Campaign
    The Appomattox Campaign was the final series of military operations in the American Civil War that led to the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia in April 1865.
  • E. Battle of Five Forks
    The Battle of Five Forks was a decisive American Civil War engagement in April 1865 in Virginia, where Union forces broke Confederate lines, leading directly to the fall of Petersburg and Richmond and the surrender at Appomattox.
  • 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: Surrender at Appomattox Court House
Triple: [Battle of High Bridge, relatedEvent, Surrender at Appomattox Court House]
Generated description
The Surrender at Appomattox Court House was the April 9, 1865 meeting where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending major combat in the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Surrender at Appomattox Court House
Target entity description: The Surrender at Appomattox Court House was the April 9, 1865 meeting where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending major combat in the American Civil War.
  • A. Battle of Appomattox Court House chosen
    The Battle of Appomattox Court House was the final major engagement of the American Civil War in Virginia, leading to General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865.
  • B. Bennett Place surrender
    The Bennett Place surrender was the largest troop capitulation of the American Civil War, marking the effective end of major Confederate resistance in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida.
  • C. Battle of Appomattox Station
    The Battle of Appomattox Station was a late–Civil War engagement in April 1865 in which Union forces captured Confederate supply trains near Appomattox, hastening General Robert E. Lee’s surrender.
  • D. Appomattox Campaign
    The Appomattox Campaign was the final series of military operations in the American Civil War that led to the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia in April 1865.
  • E. Battle of Five Forks
    The Battle of Five Forks was a decisive American Civil War engagement in April 1865 in Virginia, where Union forces broke Confederate lines, leading directly to the fall of Petersburg and Richmond and the surrender at Appomattox.
  • 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_69ca832a7f108190b4e4f5648abf4aa2 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc46c76fd48190ae67b660c5b8e29f completed March 31, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cecc7a6e28819090e988343be42a1b completed April 2, 2026, 8:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cece14193081909e7b36f5b5b7da40 completed April 2, 2026, 8:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cecee1db28819095f704b96b8c6d2a completed April 2, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:23 p.m.