Triple

T18927044
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 8th Infantry Division (United States) E463000 entity
Predicate component P35 FINISHED
Object 8th Signal Company
The 8th Signal Company was a communications unit responsible for providing signal support to the U.S. Army's 8th Infantry Division.
 E1349260 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: 8th Signal Company | Statement: [8th Infantry Division (United States), component, 8th Signal Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: 8th Signal Company
Context triple: [8th Infantry Division (United States), component, 8th Signal Company]
  • A. 9th Signal Company
    The 9th Signal Company was a communications unit responsible for providing signal support and maintaining battlefield communications for the U.S. 9th Infantry Division.
  • B. 248th Signal Company
    The 248th Signal Company is a communications unit of the Georgia Army National Guard responsible for providing tactical and strategic signal support to military operations.
  • C. 144th Armored Signal Company
    The 144th Armored Signal Company was a U.S. Army unit responsible for providing communications and signal support to the 4th Armored Division, particularly during World War II operations in the European Theater.
  • D. 146th Armored Signal Company
    The 146th Armored Signal Company was a World War II-era U.S. Army unit responsible for providing communications and signal support to the 6th Armored Division.
  • E. 198th Expeditionary Signal Battalion
    The 198th Expeditionary Signal Battalion is a Delaware Army National Guard unit that provides tactical communications and information systems support to military operations.
  • 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: 8th Signal Company
Triple: [8th Infantry Division (United States), component, 8th Signal Company]
Generated description
The 8th Signal Company was a communications unit responsible for providing signal support to the U.S. Army's 8th Infantry Division.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: 8th Signal Company
Target entity description: The 8th Signal Company was a communications unit responsible for providing signal support to the U.S. Army's 8th Infantry Division.
  • A. 9th Signal Company
    The 9th Signal Company was a communications unit responsible for providing signal support and maintaining battlefield communications for the U.S. 9th Infantry Division.
  • B. 248th Signal Company
    The 248th Signal Company is a communications unit of the Georgia Army National Guard responsible for providing tactical and strategic signal support to military operations.
  • C. 144th Armored Signal Company
    The 144th Armored Signal Company was a U.S. Army unit responsible for providing communications and signal support to the 4th Armored Division, particularly during World War II operations in the European Theater.
  • D. 146th Armored Signal Company
    The 146th Armored Signal Company was a World War II-era U.S. Army unit responsible for providing communications and signal support to the 6th Armored Division.
  • E. 198th Expeditionary Signal Battalion
    The 198th Expeditionary Signal Battalion is a Delaware Army National Guard unit that provides tactical communications and information systems support to military operations.
  • 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_69d8dcfdbbb881909964fa5a75bd0b48 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5c9bc36588190ae9cc3b8abf8afd4 completed April 20, 2026, 6:37 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a05911dd02c81909ea050471cc7774a completed May 14, 2026, 9:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05935f68bc819084d1f46fd9d51a2e completed May 14, 2026, 9:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a05944851d48190827e1a7fe9a795d5 completed May 14, 2026, 9:22 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:59 a.m.