Triple

T22184251
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fort Pillow Massacre E548250 entity
Predicate commander P1061 FINISHED
Object William F. Bradford
William F. Bradford was a Union officer during the American Civil War best known for commanding the garrison at Fort Pillow, where he was killed in the infamous 1864 massacre by Confederate forces.
E1523398 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: William F. Bradford | Statement: [Fort Pillow Massacre, commander, William F. Bradford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William F. Bradford
Context triple: [Fort Pillow Massacre, commander, William F. Bradford]
  • A. William Bradford
    William Bradford was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Western films during the mid-20th century.
  • B. William Bradford
    William Bradford was a leader of the Pilgrims and longtime governor of Plymouth Colony who chronicled its early history in his famous work "Of Plymouth Plantation."
  • C. William Bradford
    William Bradford was a pioneering colonial American printer and publisher who helped establish early printing in Pennsylvania and New York.
  • D. John Winthrop
    John Winthrop was a 17th-century English Puritan leader and governor who played a central role in establishing and governing the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a model “city upon a hill.”
  • E. Waitstill Winthrop
    Waitstill Winthrop was a late 17th- and early 18th-century New England magistrate and politician, known for serving as chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court and for his involvement in the aftermath of the Salem witch trials.
  • 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: William F. Bradford
Triple: [Fort Pillow Massacre, commander, William F. Bradford]
Generated description
William F. Bradford was a Union officer during the American Civil War best known for commanding the garrison at Fort Pillow, where he was killed in the infamous 1864 massacre by Confederate forces.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William F. Bradford
Target entity description: William F. Bradford was a Union officer during the American Civil War best known for commanding the garrison at Fort Pillow, where he was killed in the infamous 1864 massacre by Confederate forces.
  • A. William Bradford
    William Bradford was a leader of the Pilgrims and longtime governor of Plymouth Colony who chronicled its early history in his famous work "Of Plymouth Plantation."
  • B. William Bradford
    William Bradford was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Western films during the mid-20th century.
  • C. William Bradford
    William Bradford was a pioneering colonial American printer and publisher who helped establish early printing in Pennsylvania and New York.
  • D. John Winthrop
    John Winthrop was a 17th-century English Puritan leader and governor who played a central role in establishing and governing the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a model “city upon a hill.”
  • E. Waitstill Winthrop
    Waitstill Winthrop was a late 17th- and early 18th-century New England magistrate and politician, known for serving as chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court and for his involvement in the aftermath of the Salem witch trials.
  • 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_69e11e3e0c7c8190b30d278845e2497e completed April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f12aa75440819084cbe9176b9edb47 completed April 28, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a9ecd0a7881909dbda649b8474ff1 completed May 18, 2026, 5:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a9f494f3c8190aee8f2e6dc1af763 completed May 18, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0aa03a8e0c819089dc48473b5b743c completed May 18, 2026, 5:14 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:35 p.m.