Triple

T22070781
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Amiel Weeks Whipple E545398 entity
Predicate commissionedIn P5529 FINISHED
Object Corps of Topographical Engineers
The Corps of Topographical Engineers was a specialized branch of the U.S. Army in the 19th century responsible for mapping, surveying, and engineering projects that supported military operations and westward expansion.
E952364 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: Corps of Topographical Engineers | Statement: [Amiel Weeks Whipple, commissionedIn, Corps of Topographical Engineers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Corps of Topographical Engineers
Context triple: [Amiel Weeks Whipple, commissionedIn, Corps of Topographical Engineers]
  • A. Australian Corps of Engineers
    The Australian Corps of Engineers was the military engineering branch of the Australian Army responsible for construction, fortifications, logistics support, and other technical services in both peace and wartime operations.
  • B. U.S. Army Engineer Regiment
    The U.S. Army Engineer Regiment is the branch of the U.S. Army responsible for combat engineering, construction, and infrastructure support, encompassing units that provide mobility, counter-mobility, and survivability on the battlefield.
  • C. U.S. Board of Engineers for Fortifications
    The U.S. Board of Engineers for Fortifications was a 19th-century U.S. Army engineering body responsible for planning and overseeing the design of the nation’s coastal defense fortifications.
  • D. Labour Corps
    The Labour Corps was a British Army support formation in World War I composed largely of men unfit for front-line combat, tasked with manual and logistical work such as construction, transport, and battlefield clearance.
  • E. Northern Army Engineer Group
    The Northern Army Engineer Group is a military engineering formation that provides specialized construction, fortification, and logistical support to the Northern Army’s operations.
  • 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: Corps of Topographical Engineers
Triple: [Amiel Weeks Whipple, commissionedIn, Corps of Topographical Engineers]
Generated description
The Corps of Topographical Engineers was a specialized branch of the U.S. Army in the 19th century responsible for mapping, surveying, and engineering projects that supported military operations and westward expansion.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Corps of Topographical Engineers
Target entity description: The Corps of Topographical Engineers was a specialized branch of the U.S. Army in the 19th century responsible for mapping, surveying, and engineering projects that supported military operations and westward expansion.
  • A. Australian Corps of Engineers
    The Australian Corps of Engineers was the military engineering branch of the Australian Army responsible for construction, fortifications, logistics support, and other technical services in both peace and wartime operations.
  • B. U.S. Army Engineer Regiment
    The U.S. Army Engineer Regiment is the branch of the U.S. Army responsible for combat engineering, construction, and infrastructure support, encompassing units that provide mobility, counter-mobility, and survivability on the battlefield.
  • C. U.S. Board of Engineers for Fortifications chosen
    The U.S. Board of Engineers for Fortifications was a 19th-century U.S. Army engineering body responsible for planning and overseeing the design of the nation’s coastal defense fortifications.
  • D. Labour Corps
    The Labour Corps was a British Army support formation in World War I composed largely of men unfit for front-line combat, tasked with manual and logistical work such as construction, transport, and battlefield clearance.
  • E. Northern Army Engineer Group
    The Northern Army Engineer Group is a military engineering formation that provides specialized construction, fortification, and logistical support to the Northern Army’s operations.
  • F. None of above.

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_69e11e344dfc81909b1d88a7221329c7 completed April 16, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f128881af481909b28cda2d343f4e3 completed April 28, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a80b378888190b7d26cd57a6eec23 completed May 18, 2026, 3 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a817450ac81908479592e5cfc0126 completed May 18, 2026, 3:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a827806a8819099933d597773a1e1 completed May 18, 2026, 3:07 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:28 p.m.