Triple

T20256978
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Peach Orchard, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania E498727 entity
Predicate associatedWithCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object Brigadier General Joseph B. Kershaw
Brigadier General Joseph B. Kershaw was a Confederate officer in the American Civil War who led a South Carolina brigade in major battles including Gettysburg.
 E1427002 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 Joseph B. Kershaw | Statement: [Peach Orchard, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, associatedWithCommander, Brigadier General Joseph B. Kershaw]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Brigadier General Joseph B. Kershaw
Context triple: [Peach Orchard, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, associatedWithCommander, Brigadier General Joseph B. Kershaw]
  • A. Brigadier General Richard Coulter Drum
    Brigadier General Richard Coulter Drum was a 19th-century United States Army officer and long-serving Adjutant General whose military career spanned the Mexican–American War, the Civil War, and the Indian Wars.
  • B. Brigadier General James Lawson Kemper
    Brigadier General James Lawson Kemper was a Confederate officer in the American Civil War who later became the governor of Virginia.
  • C. Brigadier General James Winchester
    Brigadier General James Winchester was an American military officer and War of 1812 commander who played a prominent role in early western campaigns, including the ill-fated operations in the Northwest Territory.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Brigadier General J. H. Hobart Ward
    Brigadier General J. H. Hobart Ward was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, best known for leading his brigade in hard fighting at battles such as Gettysburg.
  • 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 Joseph B. Kershaw
Triple: [Peach Orchard, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, associatedWithCommander, Brigadier General Joseph B. Kershaw]
Generated description
Brigadier General Joseph B. Kershaw was a Confederate officer in the American Civil War who led a South Carolina brigade in major battles including Gettysburg.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Brigadier General Joseph B. Kershaw
Target entity description: Brigadier General Joseph B. Kershaw was a Confederate officer in the American Civil War who led a South Carolina brigade in major battles including Gettysburg.
  • A. Brigadier General Richard Coulter Drum
    Brigadier General Richard Coulter Drum was a 19th-century United States Army officer and long-serving Adjutant General whose military career spanned the Mexican–American War, the Civil War, and the Indian Wars.
  • B. Brigadier General James Lawson Kemper
    Brigadier General James Lawson Kemper was a Confederate officer in the American Civil War who later became the governor of Virginia.
  • C. Brigadier General James Winchester
    Brigadier General James Winchester was an American military officer and War of 1812 commander who played a prominent role in early western campaigns, including the ill-fated operations in the Northwest Territory.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Brigadier General J. H. Hobart Ward
    Brigadier General J. H. Hobart Ward was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, best known for leading his brigade in hard fighting at battles such as Gettysburg.
  • 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_6a0870716c5c8190aeb5a8030709458f completed May 16, 2026, 1:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0871146b248190ac91cf010a984e1f completed May 16, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0871a818688190ad69bcf84e33d014 completed May 16, 2026, 1:31 p.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:41 p.m.