Triple
T34958788
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Postal history of the Confederate States of America |
E1008189
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entity |
| Predicate | mainSubject |
P3
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FINISHED |
| Object |
Confederate States postmasters' provisionals
Confederate States postmasters' provisionals are locally issued postage stamps created by individual postmasters in the Confederate States of America before a centralized national stamp system was established during the Civil War.
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E1008189
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NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Confederate States postmasters' provisionals | Statement: [Postal history of the Confederate States of America, mainSubject, Confederate States postmasters' provisionals]
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: Confederate States postmasters' provisionals Triple: [Postal history of the Confederate States of America, mainSubject, Confederate States postmasters' provisionals]
Generated description
Confederate States postmasters' provisionals are locally issued postage stamps created by individual postmasters in the Confederate States of America before a centralized national stamp system was established during the Civil War.
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_69f76dc69564819099e9e78aed6ff0a6 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 3:46 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f7841f23dc8190ba40254d58c65b7b |
completed | May 3, 2026, 5:21 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a37a8d0206c819093399aa913498b4f |
completed | June 21, 2026, 9:03 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a37aca349288190b7be7c30d73c371f |
completed | June 21, 2026, 9:19 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a37ad78958481909c0d827f16c0ba22 |
completed | June 21, 2026, 9:23 a.m. |
Created at: May 3, 2026, 4 p.m.