Triple

T23079389
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject CSS Virginia E575424 entity
Predicate class P87 FINISHED
Object Virginia-class ironclad
The Virginia-class ironclad was a Confederate Civil War warship design featuring heavy iron armor and powerful guns, exemplified by the pioneering ironclad CSS Virginia.
E1570045 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: Virginia-class ironclad | Statement: [CSS Virginia, class, Virginia-class ironclad]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virginia-class ironclad
Context triple: [CSS Virginia, class, Virginia-class ironclad]
  • A. Warrior-class ironclad
    The Warrior-class ironclad was a pioneering 19th-century British warship design that introduced large, seagoing, iron-hulled armored frigates to the Royal Navy, marking a major shift from wooden sailing ships to modern armored steam warships.
  • B. Monitor-class ironclad
    The Monitor-class ironclad was a pioneering type of low-profile, turreted warship built for the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War, exemplified by the revolutionary USS Monitor.
  • C. Ironclad
    Ironclad is a 2011 historical action film about the defense of Rochester Castle during the First Barons' War, in which Aneurin Barnard plays a key supporting role.
  • D. USS Monitor
    The USS Monitor was a pioneering Union ironclad warship of the American Civil War, famed for its revolutionary turreted design and its 1862 battle against the CSS Virginia (Merrimack).
  • E. USS Merrimack
    USS Merrimack was a U.S. Navy steam frigate later converted by the Confederacy into the ironclad warship CSS Virginia, famous for its role in the Battle of Hampton Roads during the American Civil War.
  • 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: Virginia-class ironclad
Triple: [CSS Virginia, class, Virginia-class ironclad]
Generated description
The Virginia-class ironclad was a Confederate Civil War warship design featuring heavy iron armor and powerful guns, exemplified by the pioneering ironclad CSS Virginia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virginia-class ironclad
Target entity description: The Virginia-class ironclad was a Confederate Civil War warship design featuring heavy iron armor and powerful guns, exemplified by the pioneering ironclad CSS Virginia.
  • A. Warrior-class ironclad
    The Warrior-class ironclad was a pioneering 19th-century British warship design that introduced large, seagoing, iron-hulled armored frigates to the Royal Navy, marking a major shift from wooden sailing ships to modern armored steam warships.
  • B. Monitor-class ironclad
    The Monitor-class ironclad was a pioneering type of low-profile, turreted warship built for the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War, exemplified by the revolutionary USS Monitor.
  • C. Ironclad
    Ironclad is a 2011 historical action film about the defense of Rochester Castle during the First Barons' War, in which Aneurin Barnard plays a key supporting role.
  • D. USS Monitor
    The USS Monitor was a pioneering Union ironclad warship of the American Civil War, famed for its revolutionary turreted design and its 1862 battle against the CSS Virginia (Merrimack).
  • E. USS Merrimack
    USS Merrimack was a U.S. Navy steam frigate later converted by the Confederacy into the ironclad warship CSS Virginia, famous for its role in the Battle of Hampton Roads during the American Civil War.
  • 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_69e245be28d48190ad1348d5a73db37d completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18c6572d88190afab0dfa960a85dd completed April 29, 2026, 4:43 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c15aec9508190ae8eedb3e2615097 completed May 19, 2026, 7:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c166786108190813262e7c7be832e completed May 19, 2026, 7:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c16c73140819088d46d4e8b03c7a4 completed May 19, 2026, 7:52 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:56 p.m.