Triple

T20791641
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Williamsport E511791 entity
Predicate followedBy P78 FINISHED
Object Crossing of the Potomac River by the Army of Northern Virginia
The Crossing of the Potomac River by the Army of Northern Virginia was the Confederate retreat of Robert E. Lee’s forces back into Virginia after the Gettysburg Campaign, marking the end of their invasion of the North.
E1451131 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: Crossing of the Potomac River by the Army of Northern Virginia | Statement: [Battle of Williamsport, followedBy, Crossing of the Potomac River by the Army of Northern Virginia]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Crossing of the Potomac River by the Army of Northern Virginia
Context triple: [Battle of Williamsport, followedBy, Crossing of the Potomac River by the Army of Northern Virginia]
  • A. Battle of North Anna
    The Battle of North Anna was an 1864 American Civil War engagement in Virginia during Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign, where Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia used a strong inverted “V” defensive line to temporarily halt the Union advance.
  • B. Maryland Campaign
    The Maryland Campaign was Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s first major invasion of the North during the American Civil War in 1862, culminating in the Battle of Antietam.
  • C. Battle of Rappahannock Station
    The Battle of Rappahannock Station was an American Civil War engagement in November 1863 in Virginia, where Union forces successfully stormed Confederate fortifications along the Rappahannock River, securing a significant tactical victory.
  • D. Rappahannock campaigns
    The Rappahannock campaigns were a series of American Civil War operations and battles along Virginia’s Rappahannock River, primarily involving Union and Confederate forces maneuvering for control of key crossings and approaches to Richmond.
  • E. Appomattox Campaign
    The Appomattox Campaign was the final series of military operations in the American Civil War that led to the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia in April 1865.
  • 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: Crossing of the Potomac River by the Army of Northern Virginia
Triple: [Battle of Williamsport, followedBy, Crossing of the Potomac River by the Army of Northern Virginia]
Generated description
The Crossing of the Potomac River by the Army of Northern Virginia was the Confederate retreat of Robert E. Lee’s forces back into Virginia after the Gettysburg Campaign, marking the end of their invasion of the North.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Crossing of the Potomac River by the Army of Northern Virginia
Target entity description: The Crossing of the Potomac River by the Army of Northern Virginia was the Confederate retreat of Robert E. Lee’s forces back into Virginia after the Gettysburg Campaign, marking the end of their invasion of the North.
  • A. Battle of North Anna
    The Battle of North Anna was an 1864 American Civil War engagement in Virginia during Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign, where Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia used a strong inverted “V” defensive line to temporarily halt the Union advance.
  • B. Maryland Campaign
    The Maryland Campaign was Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s first major invasion of the North during the American Civil War in 1862, culminating in the Battle of Antietam.
  • C. Battle of Rappahannock Station
    The Battle of Rappahannock Station was an American Civil War engagement in November 1863 in Virginia, where Union forces successfully stormed Confederate fortifications along the Rappahannock River, securing a significant tactical victory.
  • D. Rappahannock campaigns
    The Rappahannock campaigns were a series of American Civil War operations and battles along Virginia’s Rappahannock River, primarily involving Union and Confederate forces maneuvering for control of key crossings and approaches to Richmond.
  • E. Appomattox Campaign
    The Appomattox Campaign was the final series of military operations in the American Civil War that led to the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia in April 1865.
  • 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_69e0b4cb83948190bd57bec21d78ed53 completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c2910d488190bc4be37512effc86 completed April 21, 2026, 12:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08f8bc76508190b65a105fcd4decd1 completed May 16, 2026, 11:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08f9c9314c81909052d1a2e93d740a completed May 16, 2026, 11:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08fa7040d88190b592d4f46249c2c1 completed May 16, 2026, 11:14 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:38 p.m.