Triple

T22621903

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War	`E558302`	entity
Predicate	UnionCommand	`P26185`	FINISHED
Object	Department of Kansas The Department of Kansas was a Union Army administrative and military district responsible for organizing and directing Federal forces in the Kansas region and surrounding areas during the American Civil War.	`E1545613`	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: Department of Kansas | Statement: [Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War, UnionCommand, Department of Kansas]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Department of Kansas
Context triple: [Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War, UnionCommand, Department of Kansas]

A. Kansas Department of Administration
The Kansas Department of Administration is a state government agency responsible for providing centralized administrative, financial, and operational support services to Kansas’s executive branch agencies.
B. Government of Kansas
The Government of Kansas is the state-level governing authority of Kansas, encompassing its executive, legislative, and judicial branches and overseeing all state agencies and public services.
C. District of Kansas
The District of Kansas is a federal judicial district of the United States that covers the state of Kansas for purposes of federal trials and appeals.
D. Government of Topeka, Kansas
The Government of Topeka, Kansas is the municipal authority responsible for administering the city of Topeka, including its executive leadership, legislative body, and public services.
E. Department of the Missouri
The Department of the Missouri was a major Union Army administrative and military command in the American Civil War, overseeing operations across much of the trans-Mississippi West.
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: Department of Kansas
Triple: [Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War, UnionCommand, Department of Kansas]

Generated description

The Department of Kansas was a Union Army administrative and military district responsible for organizing and directing Federal forces in the Kansas region and surrounding areas during the American Civil War.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Department of Kansas
Target entity description: The Department of Kansas was a Union Army administrative and military district responsible for organizing and directing Federal forces in the Kansas region and surrounding areas during the American Civil War.

A. Kansas Department of Administration
The Kansas Department of Administration is a state government agency responsible for providing centralized administrative, financial, and operational support services to Kansas’s executive branch agencies.
B. Government of Kansas
The Government of Kansas is the state-level governing authority of Kansas, encompassing its executive, legislative, and judicial branches and overseeing all state agencies and public services.
C. District of Kansas
The District of Kansas is a federal judicial district of the United States that covers the state of Kansas for purposes of federal trials and appeals.
D. Government of Topeka, Kansas
The Government of Topeka, Kansas is the municipal authority responsible for administering the city of Topeka, including its executive leadership, legislative body, and public services.
E. Department of the Missouri
The Department of the Missouri was a major Union Army administrative and military command in the American Civil War, overseeing operations across much of the trans-Mississippi West.
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_69e24545a8e08190bfa7482a2c725ff1`	completed	April 17, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69f16e39959481909e0ae67379435f95`	completed	April 29, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_6a0b4e055bd48190936acf569afce629`	completed	May 18, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_6a0b4ee959f881908f0c21c49d87026c`	completed	May 18, 2026, 5:39 p.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_6a0b4fa690a48190a6e025408054605f`	completed	May 18, 2026, 5:43 p.m.

Created at: April 17, 2026, 3 p.m.