Triple

T20404948
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 13th Virginia Cavalry Regiment E500442 entity
Predicate notableCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object Colonel Thomas H. Owen
Colonel Thomas H. Owen was a Confederate cavalry officer who commanded the 13th Virginia Cavalry Regiment during the American Civil War.
E1433478 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: Colonel Thomas H. Owen | Statement: [13th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, notableCommander, Colonel Thomas H. Owen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Thomas H. Owen
Context triple: [13th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, notableCommander, Colonel Thomas H. Owen]
  • A. Colonel Joshua T. Owen
    Colonel Joshua T. Owen was a Union Army officer and politician best known for leading Irish-American troops from Pennsylvania during the American Civil War.
  • B. Colonel Alexander Bliss
    Colonel Alexander Bliss was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for requesting and preserving one of the authoritative manuscript copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
  • C. Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds
    Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading cavalry forces during the Indian Wars of the 19th century.
  • D. Colonel John Henry Thomas
    Colonel John Henry Thomas is the tough, principled Union cavalry officer portrayed by John Wayne in the 1969 Western film "The Undefeated."
  • E. Colonel Edward Hatch
    Colonel Edward Hatch was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading military operations against Apache leader Victorio during the late 19th-century Indian Wars in the American Southwest.
  • 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: Colonel Thomas H. Owen
Triple: [13th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, notableCommander, Colonel Thomas H. Owen]
Generated description
Colonel Thomas H. Owen was a Confederate cavalry officer who commanded the 13th Virginia Cavalry Regiment during the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colonel Thomas H. Owen
Target entity description: Colonel Thomas H. Owen was a Confederate cavalry officer who commanded the 13th Virginia Cavalry Regiment during the American Civil War.
  • A. Colonel Joshua T. Owen
    Colonel Joshua T. Owen was a Union Army officer and politician best known for leading Irish-American troops from Pennsylvania during the American Civil War.
  • B. Colonel Alexander Bliss
    Colonel Alexander Bliss was a 19th-century American editor and publisher best known for requesting and preserving one of the authoritative manuscript copies of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
  • C. Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds
    Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading cavalry forces during the Indian Wars of the 19th century.
  • D. Colonel John Henry Thomas
    Colonel John Henry Thomas is the tough, principled Union cavalry officer portrayed by John Wayne in the 1969 Western film "The Undefeated."
  • E. Colonel Edward Hatch
    Colonel Edward Hatch was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading military operations against Apache leader Victorio during the late 19th-century Indian Wars in the American Southwest.
  • 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_69e0b4a81bec8190b69adfdc1336a015 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6799161c48190825eca3027d1aa51 completed April 20, 2026, 7:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a088b03a3fc8190974a8558ba974ce9 completed May 16, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a088ee32484819083761c12c2696d7e completed May 16, 2026, 3:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a088f7669088190962837848103d0de completed May 16, 2026, 3:38 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:29 a.m.