Triple

T9017852

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	New Jersey Volunteers	`E215640`	entity
Predicate	commander	`P1061`	FINISHED
Object	Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner was a Loyalist military leader and former attorney general of New Jersey who commanded provincial forces in support of the British during the American Revolutionary War.	`E772956`	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: Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner | Statement: [New Jersey Volunteers, commander, Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner
Context triple: [New Jersey Volunteers, commander, Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner]

A. Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel
Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel is the fictional, highly decorated but rogue U.S. Marine Corps general who leads the hostage-taking operation on Alcatraz Island in the 1996 action film "The Rock."
B. Brigadier General Strong Vincent
Brigadier General Strong Vincent was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War best known for his decisive leadership and mortal wounding while defending Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg.
C. Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed
Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed was a U.S. Army officer and Civil War brigadier general who was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
D. Brigadier General Joshua W. Sill
Brigadier General Joshua W. Sill was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, remembered for his leadership and for being killed in action at the Battle of Stones River.
E. Brigadier General Powell Clayton
Brigadier General Powell Clayton was a 19th-century American military officer, Reconstruction-era governor of Arkansas, and later U.S. senator and diplomat.
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: Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner
Triple: [New Jersey Volunteers, commander, Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner]

Generated description

Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner was a Loyalist military leader and former attorney general of New Jersey who commanded provincial forces in support of the British during the American Revolutionary War.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner
Target entity description: Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner was a Loyalist military leader and former attorney general of New Jersey who commanded provincial forces in support of the British during the American Revolutionary War.

A. Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel
Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel is the fictional, highly decorated but rogue U.S. Marine Corps general who leads the hostage-taking operation on Alcatraz Island in the 1996 action film "The Rock."
B. Brigadier General Strong Vincent
Brigadier General Strong Vincent was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War best known for his decisive leadership and mortal wounding while defending Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg.
C. Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed
Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed was a U.S. Army officer and Civil War brigadier general who was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
D. Brigadier General Joshua W. Sill
Brigadier General Joshua W. Sill was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, remembered for his leadership and for being killed in action at the Battle of Stones River.
E. Brigadier General Powell Clayton
Brigadier General Powell Clayton was a 19th-century American military officer, Reconstruction-era governor of Arkansas, and later U.S. senator and diplomat.
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_69ca83a38aa88190bf1bb80c4548b5e2`	completed	March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69cc6a3ef98081909e66372a89f881b9`	completed	April 1, 2026, 12:43 a.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_69cfdbabd6108190aa2f3c6f59d7999c`	completed	April 3, 2026, 3:24 p.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_69cfdc48f22081909f17ec4c5542da47`	completed	April 3, 2026, 3:27 p.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_69cfdcecebe48190a2ede4c8400b3b42`	completed	April 3, 2026, 3:29 p.m.

Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:07 p.m.