Triple

T21805320
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject CSS Shenandoah E538334 entity
Predicate captain P884 FINISHED
Object James Iredell Waddell
James Iredell Waddell was a Confederate States Navy officer best known for commanding the commerce raider CSS Shenandoah during the American Civil War.
E1505243 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: James Iredell Waddell | Statement: [CSS Shenandoah, captain, James Iredell Waddell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Iredell Waddell
Context triple: [CSS Shenandoah, captain, James Iredell Waddell]
  • A. William B. Umstead
    William B. Umstead was a mid-20th-century North Carolina politician who served as both a U.S. senator and the 63rd governor of the state.
  • B. William B. Taliaferro
    William B. Taliaferro was a Confederate general during the American Civil War who held several important field commands in the Eastern Theater.
  • C. John B. Randleman
    John B. Randleman was a notable figure after whom the city of Randleman, North Carolina, was named, likely due to his prominence or contributions to the area.
  • D. Henry W. Ralston
    Henry W. Ralston was a publishing executive at Street & Smith who co-created and helped develop the pulp hero Doc Savage in the 1930s.
  • E. Paul Hamilton Hayne
    Paul Hamilton Hayne was a 19th-century American poet and critic from the South, known for his lyrical verse and contributions to post–Civil War Southern literature.
  • 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: James Iredell Waddell
Triple: [CSS Shenandoah, captain, James Iredell Waddell]
Generated description
James Iredell Waddell was a Confederate States Navy officer best known for commanding the commerce raider CSS Shenandoah during the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Iredell Waddell
Target entity description: James Iredell Waddell was a Confederate States Navy officer best known for commanding the commerce raider CSS Shenandoah during the American Civil War.
  • A. William B. Umstead
    William B. Umstead was a mid-20th-century North Carolina politician who served as both a U.S. senator and the 63rd governor of the state.
  • B. William B. Taliaferro
    William B. Taliaferro was a Confederate general during the American Civil War who held several important field commands in the Eastern Theater.
  • C. John B. Randleman
    John B. Randleman was a notable figure after whom the city of Randleman, North Carolina, was named, likely due to his prominence or contributions to the area.
  • D. Henry W. Ralston
    Henry W. Ralston was a publishing executive at Street & Smith who co-created and helped develop the pulp hero Doc Savage in the 1930s.
  • E. Paul Hamilton Hayne
    Paul Hamilton Hayne was a 19th-century American poet and critic from the South, known for his lyrical verse and contributions to post–Civil War Southern literature.
  • 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_69e0c473f0f8819086c9d1b4a143bd67 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f07801fa8081909098d00947bf8f7f completed April 28, 2026, 9:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a4bbe705c8190bea217252ffc9932 completed May 17, 2026, 11:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a4d6907d881909a93309f31dd4858 completed May 17, 2026, 11:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a4e1bc7c08190b7102b978313cf90 completed May 17, 2026, 11:24 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:53 p.m.