Triple

T9017853
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject New Jersey Volunteers E215640 entity
Predicate notableCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object Cortlandt Skinner
Cortlandt Skinner was a Loyalist military leader and attorney general of New Jersey who commanded one of the largest provincial corps fighting for the British during the American Revolutionary War.
E774174 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: Cortlandt Skinner | Statement: [New Jersey Volunteers, notableCommander, Cortlandt Skinner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cortlandt Skinner
Context triple: [New Jersey Volunteers, notableCommander, Cortlandt Skinner]
  • A. Jonathan Hasbrouck
    Jonathan Hasbrouck was an 18th-century New York landowner and militia officer whose house later served as George Washington’s Revolutionary War headquarters, now preserved as Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site.
  • B. Stephen Van Rensselaer
    Stephen Van Rensselaer was a prominent early American landowner, politician, and philanthropist best known as the patroon of Rensselaerswyck and co-founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
  • C. Abraham Van Brunt
    Abraham Van Brunt, better known as Brom Bones, is the boisterous, brawny rival of Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
  • D. Amasa Delano
    Amasa Delano was an American sea captain and explorer best known for his 1817 memoir "A Narrative of Voyages and Travels," which inspired Herman Melville’s novella "Benito Cereno."
  • E. James Van Rensselaer
    James Van Rensselaer was an early American figure after whom the city of Rensselaer, Indiana, was named, likely due to his role in the area's founding or development.
  • 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: Cortlandt Skinner
Triple: [New Jersey Volunteers, notableCommander, Cortlandt Skinner]
Generated description
Cortlandt Skinner was a Loyalist military leader and attorney general of New Jersey who commanded one of the largest provincial corps fighting for the British during the American Revolutionary War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cortlandt Skinner
Target entity description: Cortlandt Skinner was a Loyalist military leader and attorney general of New Jersey who commanded one of the largest provincial corps fighting for the British during the American Revolutionary War.
  • A. Jonathan Hasbrouck
    Jonathan Hasbrouck was an 18th-century New York landowner and militia officer whose house later served as George Washington’s Revolutionary War headquarters, now preserved as Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site.
  • B. Stephen Van Rensselaer
    Stephen Van Rensselaer was a prominent early American landowner, politician, and philanthropist best known as the patroon of Rensselaerswyck and co-founder of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
  • C. Abraham Van Brunt
    Abraham Van Brunt, better known as Brom Bones, is the boisterous, brawny rival of Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
  • D. Amasa Delano
    Amasa Delano was an American sea captain and explorer best known for his 1817 memoir "A Narrative of Voyages and Travels," which inspired Herman Melville’s novella "Benito Cereno."
  • E. James Van Rensselaer
    James Van Rensselaer was an early American figure after whom the city of Rensselaer, Indiana, was named, likely due to his role in the area's founding or development.
  • 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_69cfeb7117c48190a9dca7bbdabe9e3d completed April 3, 2026, 4:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfed0af5a8819096223cb8c928296b completed April 3, 2026, 4:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfed7322c48190b82599e63abd523a completed April 3, 2026, 4:40 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:07 p.m.