Triple

T20136275

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	James J. Andrews	`E491032`	entity
Predicate	executedBy	`P698`	FINISHED
Object	Confederate States authorities Confederate States authorities were the governing and military officials of the Confederate States of America responsible for enforcing its laws, administering justice, and conducting the Civil War against the Union.	`E1413807`	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: Confederate States authorities | Statement: [James J. Andrews, executedBy, Confederate States authorities]

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

Target entity: Confederate States authorities
Context triple: [James J. Andrews, executedBy, Confederate States authorities]

A. Confederate Department of Justice
The Confederate Department of Justice was the principal legal and judicial arm of the Confederate States government, responsible for overseeing law enforcement, legal affairs, and the administration of justice during the American Civil War.
B. Confederate district courts
The Confederate district courts were the regional judicial bodies of the Confederate States of America, responsible for handling federal-level legal matters within their respective districts during the Civil War era.
C. Confederate States militia
The Confederate States militia comprised state-organized military forces that supported the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, handling local defense, conscription enforcement, and internal security.
D. Confederado territory
Confederado territory is a region within the fictional Western-themed Westworld park, controlled by a Confederate-style military faction and used as a backdrop for war and frontier storylines.
E. Confederates
Confederates is a historical novel by Thomas Keneally that portrays the experiences and moral complexities of Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War.
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: Confederate States authorities
Triple: [James J. Andrews, executedBy, Confederate States authorities]

Generated description

Confederate States authorities were the governing and military officials of the Confederate States of America responsible for enforcing its laws, administering justice, and conducting the Civil War against the Union.

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

Target entity: Confederate States authorities
Target entity description: Confederate States authorities were the governing and military officials of the Confederate States of America responsible for enforcing its laws, administering justice, and conducting the Civil War against the Union.

A. Confederate Department of Justice
The Confederate Department of Justice was the principal legal and judicial arm of the Confederate States government, responsible for overseeing law enforcement, legal affairs, and the administration of justice during the American Civil War.
B. Confederate district courts
The Confederate district courts were the regional judicial bodies of the Confederate States of America, responsible for handling federal-level legal matters within their respective districts during the Civil War era.
C. Confederate States militia
The Confederate States militia comprised state-organized military forces that supported the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, handling local defense, conscription enforcement, and internal security.
D. Confederado territory
Confederado territory is a region within the fictional Western-themed Westworld park, controlled by a Confederate-style military faction and used as a backdrop for war and frontier storylines.
E. Confederates
Confederates is a historical novel by Thomas Keneally that portrays the experiences and moral complexities of Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War.
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_69da62651a0c8190a3e05e95e056a66b`	completed	April 11, 2026, 3:01 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69e66767ba3881909c2bcb74a986bd29`	completed	April 20, 2026, 5:50 p.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_6a082de255b08190b50a3cb5e4da4973`	completed	May 16, 2026, 8:42 a.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_6a082ef2cf208190aea9cd29b15b35dd`	completed	May 16, 2026, 8:46 a.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_6a0830ccfdd881909cbf1c3fd2342821`	completed	May 16, 2026, 8:54 a.m.

Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:32 p.m.