Triple

T21020305
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Cherbourg E517786 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object Sinking of CSS Alabama
The Sinking of CSS Alabama refers to the 1864 naval battle off Cherbourg, France, in which the Union warship USS Kearsarge defeated and sank the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama during the American Civil War.
E1462175 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: Sinking of CSS Alabama | Statement: [Battle of Cherbourg, alsoKnownAs, Sinking of CSS Alabama]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sinking of CSS Alabama
Context triple: [Battle of Cherbourg, alsoKnownAs, Sinking of CSS Alabama]
  • A. Chesapeake–Leopard affair
    The Chesapeake–Leopard affair was an 1807 naval confrontation between the United States and Britain, in which a British warship attacked and boarded an American frigate, sharply escalating tensions that helped lead toward the War of 1812.
  • B. Mississippi Squadron
    The Mississippi Squadron was a Union Navy formation during the American Civil War that conducted riverine operations to control the Mississippi River and its tributaries, supporting major campaigns in the Western Theater.
  • C. Battle between USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon
    The Battle between USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon was a pivotal naval engagement of the War of 1812, remembered for the swift British victory and U.S. Captain James Lawrence’s dying command, “Don’t give up the ship.”
  • D. Battle of Mobile Bay
    The Battle of Mobile Bay was a major American Civil War naval engagement in 1864, famous for Admiral David Farragut’s bold attack that sealed one of the Confederacy’s last major Gulf ports.
  • E. Capture of New Orleans
    The Capture of New Orleans was a pivotal 1862 Union naval and land operation during the American Civil War that seized the Confederacy’s largest city and key Gulf Coast port, dealing a major strategic and economic blow to the South.
  • 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: Sinking of CSS Alabama
Triple: [Battle of Cherbourg, alsoKnownAs, Sinking of CSS Alabama]
Generated description
The Sinking of CSS Alabama refers to the 1864 naval battle off Cherbourg, France, in which the Union warship USS Kearsarge defeated and sank the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama during the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sinking of CSS Alabama
Target entity description: The Sinking of CSS Alabama refers to the 1864 naval battle off Cherbourg, France, in which the Union warship USS Kearsarge defeated and sank the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama during the American Civil War.
  • A. Chesapeake–Leopard affair
    The Chesapeake–Leopard affair was an 1807 naval confrontation between the United States and Britain, in which a British warship attacked and boarded an American frigate, sharply escalating tensions that helped lead toward the War of 1812.
  • B. Mississippi Squadron
    The Mississippi Squadron was a Union Navy formation during the American Civil War that conducted riverine operations to control the Mississippi River and its tributaries, supporting major campaigns in the Western Theater.
  • C. Battle between USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon
    The Battle between USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon was a pivotal naval engagement of the War of 1812, remembered for the swift British victory and U.S. Captain James Lawrence’s dying command, “Don’t give up the ship.”
  • D. Battle of Mobile Bay
    The Battle of Mobile Bay was a major American Civil War naval engagement in 1864, famous for Admiral David Farragut’s bold attack that sealed one of the Confederacy’s last major Gulf ports.
  • E. Capture of New Orleans
    The Capture of New Orleans was a pivotal 1862 Union naval and land operation during the American Civil War that seized the Confederacy’s largest city and key Gulf Coast port, dealing a major strategic and economic blow to the South.
  • 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_69e0b50262b081909bc488937145eb73 completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6fc5c905c8190ba2f9f82b6cd1648 completed April 21, 2026, 4:26 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a093b68fd48819098ba4ba22a4f1cbd completed May 17, 2026, 3:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a093d26c38881908f8e5e0200411330 completed May 17, 2026, 3:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a093da7c214819099218effbfba8ac7 completed May 17, 2026, 4:01 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 1:54 p.m.