Triple

T22812666
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Iowa in the Civil War E565022 entity
Predicate notableUnit P304 FINISHED
Object 17th Iowa Infantry Regiment
The 17th Iowa Infantry Regiment was a Union Army volunteer infantry unit from Iowa that served in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, participating in major campaigns such as Vicksburg and Sherman’s operations.
 E1588190 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: 17th Iowa Infantry Regiment | Statement: [Iowa in the Civil War, notableUnit, 17th Iowa Infantry Regiment]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: 17th Iowa Infantry Regiment
Context triple: [Iowa in the Civil War, notableUnit, 17th Iowa Infantry Regiment]
  • A. 14th Iowa Infantry Regiment
    The 14th Iowa Infantry Regiment was a Union Army volunteer regiment from Iowa that served with distinction in multiple major campaigns and battles during the American Civil War.
  • B. 7th Iowa Infantry Regiment
    The 7th Iowa Infantry Regiment was a Union Army volunteer regiment from Iowa that saw significant combat service in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
  • C. 16th Iowa Infantry Regiment
    The 16th Iowa Infantry Regiment was a Union Army volunteer infantry unit from Iowa that served in major Western Theater campaigns during the American Civil War.
  • D. 1st Iowa Infantry Regiment
    The 1st Iowa Infantry Regiment was a short-term Union volunteer regiment from Iowa that saw early action in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, notably at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek in 1861.
  • E. 13th Iowa Infantry Regiment
    The 13th Iowa Infantry Regiment was a Union Army volunteer regiment from Iowa that fought in several major campaigns and battles of the American Civil War, including the Vicksburg and Atlanta campaigns.
  • 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: 17th Iowa Infantry Regiment
Triple: [Iowa in the Civil War, notableUnit, 17th Iowa Infantry Regiment]
Generated description
The 17th Iowa Infantry Regiment was a Union Army volunteer infantry unit from Iowa that served in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, participating in major campaigns such as Vicksburg and Sherman’s operations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: 17th Iowa Infantry Regiment
Target entity description: The 17th Iowa Infantry Regiment was a Union Army volunteer infantry unit from Iowa that served in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, participating in major campaigns such as Vicksburg and Sherman’s operations.
  • A. 14th Iowa Infantry Regiment
    The 14th Iowa Infantry Regiment was a Union Army volunteer regiment from Iowa that served with distinction in multiple major campaigns and battles during the American Civil War.
  • B. 7th Iowa Infantry Regiment
    The 7th Iowa Infantry Regiment was a Union Army volunteer regiment from Iowa that saw significant combat service in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
  • C. 16th Iowa Infantry Regiment
    The 16th Iowa Infantry Regiment was a Union Army volunteer infantry unit from Iowa that served in major Western Theater campaigns during the American Civil War.
  • D. 1st Iowa Infantry Regiment
    The 1st Iowa Infantry Regiment was a short-term Union volunteer regiment from Iowa that saw early action in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, notably at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek in 1861.
  • E. 13th Iowa Infantry Regiment
    The 13th Iowa Infantry Regiment was a Union Army volunteer regiment from Iowa that fought in several major campaigns and battles of the American Civil War, including the Vicksburg and Atlanta campaigns.
  • 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_69e2458426188190b58b8ab4844fe420 completed April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f17d61c6f081908d3911710b3aff51 completed April 29, 2026, 3:39 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c822af0748190ae7edaa9b17f4004 completed May 19, 2026, 3:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0ca6eda1f481908482f3a66d576c3c completed May 19, 2026, 6:07 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0ca7c5176c81908221307bb50ff4ed completed May 19, 2026, 6:11 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:32 p.m.