Triple
T8715401
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Battle of Springfield (1780) |
E206879
|
entity |
| Predicate | commander |
P1061
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Maxwell |
E615889
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: William Maxwell | Statement: [Battle of Springfield (1780), commander, William Maxwell]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Maxwell Context triple: [Battle of Springfield (1780), commander, William Maxwell]
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A.
William Maxwell
chosen
William Maxwell was an Irish-born American brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
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B.
William C. Maxwell
William C. Maxwell was a U.S. Army Air Service officer and early military aviator honored posthumously for his service, for whom Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama is named.
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C.
Lewis Powell
Lewis Powell was a Confederate sympathizer and member of John Wilkes Booth’s plot who attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William H. Seward on the night Abraham Lincoln was killed.
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D.
Arthur Peppercorn
Arthur Peppercorn was a prominent British steam locomotive designer who served as the last Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway, overseeing the development of its final express passenger engines.
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E.
Lawrence Sullivan Ross
Lawrence Sullivan Ross was a 19th-century Texas governor, Confederate general, and president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University), remembered for his leadership and influence on the state and the university.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca83572d4881909bef3be2b578d539 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cc5cd807cc819090b58caf285b397a |
completed | March 31, 2026, 11:46 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cf42998df88190a6eba28c2efb2030 |
completed | April 3, 2026, 4:31 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:35 p.m.