Triple

T20256649
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Philadelphia Brigade E498718 entity
Predicate notableCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object Brigadier General William W. Burns
Brigadier General William W. Burns was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War who gained prominence for his leadership of the Philadelphia Brigade.
E1424169 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 William W. Burns | Statement: [Philadelphia Brigade, notableCommander, Brigadier General William W. Burns]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brigadier General William W. Burns
Context triple: [Philadelphia Brigade, notableCommander, Brigadier General William W. Burns]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Brigadier General Richard E. Ellsworth
    Brigadier General Richard E. Ellsworth was a United States Air Force officer and bomber wing commander who died in a 1953 aircraft crash, after whom Ellsworth Air Force Base is named.
  • C. Brigadier General Frank Lackland
    Brigadier General Frank Lackland was a U.S. Army Air Corps officer whose leadership and service in military aviation led to a major Air Force training installation being named in his honor.
  • D. Brigadier General Wallace DeWitt
    Brigadier General Wallace DeWitt was a United States Army medical officer and hospital administrator honored for his service by having the DeWitt Army Community Hospital named after him.
  • E. 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.
  • 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 William W. Burns
Triple: [Philadelphia Brigade, notableCommander, Brigadier General William W. Burns]
Generated description
Brigadier General William W. Burns was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War who gained prominence for his leadership of the Philadelphia Brigade.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brigadier General William W. Burns
Target entity description: Brigadier General William W. Burns was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War who gained prominence for his leadership of the Philadelphia Brigade.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Brigadier General Richard E. Ellsworth
    Brigadier General Richard E. Ellsworth was a United States Air Force officer and bomber wing commander who died in a 1953 aircraft crash, after whom Ellsworth Air Force Base is named.
  • C. Brigadier General Frank Lackland
    Brigadier General Frank Lackland was a U.S. Army Air Corps officer whose leadership and service in military aviation led to a major Air Force training installation being named in his honor.
  • D. Brigadier General Wallace DeWitt
    Brigadier General Wallace DeWitt was a United States Army medical officer and hospital administrator honored for his service by having the DeWitt Army Community Hospital named after him.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69da6275fa6c8190952924930adee150 completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e674c6693081908ff8bec12f212f7b completed April 20, 2026, 6:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08610d2ea08190b40857b5444cb02c completed May 16, 2026, 12:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a086231b440819087671c5c61adcdc6 completed May 16, 2026, 12:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08635869148190992d75a8806f767c completed May 16, 2026, 12:30 p.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:41 p.m.