Triple

T19918028
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jonathan Trumbull Jr. E478714 entity
Predicate militaryRank P342 FINISHED
Object Paymaster General of the Northern Department
The Paymaster General of the Northern Department was a senior financial officer in the Continental Army responsible for overseeing and disbursing funds for military operations in the northern theater during the American Revolutionary War.
E1402095 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: Paymaster General of the Northern Department | Statement: [Jonathan Trumbull Jr., militaryRank, Paymaster General of the Northern Department]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paymaster General of the Northern Department
Context triple: [Jonathan Trumbull Jr., militaryRank, Paymaster General of the Northern Department]
  • A. Marshal Saint-Arnaud
    Marshal Saint-Arnaud was a 19th-century French Army officer and Minister of War best known for commanding French forces during the early stages of the Crimean War.
  • B. Secretary of State for the Northern Department
    The Secretary of State for the Northern Department was a senior British government office responsible for foreign and domestic affairs relating mainly to northern Europe and, at times, parts of Britain and Ireland, before being replaced by the modern Foreign Secretary role.
  • C. Marshal Noailles
    Marshal Noailles was a prominent 18th-century French military commander and marshal of France, noted for leading French forces during key campaigns of the War of the Austrian Succession.
  • D. Controller-General of Finances of France
    The Controller-General of Finances of France was the chief royal official responsible for overseeing the kingdom’s finances, taxation, and economic policy under the Ancien Régime.
  • E. Commandant Raynal
    Commandant Raynal was a French officer renowned for his determined leadership and defense of Fort Vaux during the Battle of Verdun in World War I.
  • 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: Paymaster General of the Northern Department
Triple: [Jonathan Trumbull Jr., militaryRank, Paymaster General of the Northern Department]
Generated description
The Paymaster General of the Northern Department was a senior financial officer in the Continental Army responsible for overseeing and disbursing funds for military operations in the northern theater during the American Revolutionary War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paymaster General of the Northern Department
Target entity description: The Paymaster General of the Northern Department was a senior financial officer in the Continental Army responsible for overseeing and disbursing funds for military operations in the northern theater during the American Revolutionary War.
  • A. Marshal Saint-Arnaud
    Marshal Saint-Arnaud was a 19th-century French Army officer and Minister of War best known for commanding French forces during the early stages of the Crimean War.
  • B. Secretary of State for the Northern Department
    The Secretary of State for the Northern Department was a senior British government office responsible for foreign and domestic affairs relating mainly to northern Europe and, at times, parts of Britain and Ireland, before being replaced by the modern Foreign Secretary role.
  • C. Marshal Noailles
    Marshal Noailles was a prominent 18th-century French military commander and marshal of France, noted for leading French forces during key campaigns of the War of the Austrian Succession.
  • D. Controller-General of Finances of France
    The Controller-General of Finances of France was the chief royal official responsible for overseeing the kingdom’s finances, taxation, and economic policy under the Ancien Régime.
  • E. Commandant Raynal
    Commandant Raynal was a French officer renowned for his determined leadership and defense of Fort Vaux during the Battle of Verdun in World War I.
  • 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_69d8e521855c8190b41871700afc8d6a completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e65995bd60819097cfad003dd29731 completed April 20, 2026, 4:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07ea52592481909419476f335b6046 completed May 16, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07f2c7dec48190a698509098479a56 completed May 16, 2026, 4:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07f376f5388190989a0460528945df completed May 16, 2026, 4:32 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:53 p.m.