Triple

T35557055

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution	`E1027525`	entity
Predicate	hasNotableFigure	`P304`	FINISHED
Object	James Armistead Lafayette James Armistead Lafayette was an enslaved African American who served as a double agent for the Continental Army during the American Revolution, providing crucial intelligence that helped secure the American victory at Yorktown.	`E2146555`	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: James Armistead Lafayette | Statement: [The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, hasNotableFigure, James Armistead Lafayette]

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: James Armistead Lafayette
Triple: [The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, hasNotableFigure, James Armistead Lafayette]

Generated description

James Armistead Lafayette was an enslaved African American who served as a double agent for the Continental Army during the American Revolution, providing crucial intelligence that helped secure the American victory at Yorktown.

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_69f76e014fd481909e9f04ac603a2aa9`	completed	May 3, 2026, 3:47 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69f79840c2b4819099b8e456f718021c`	completed	May 3, 2026, 6:47 p.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_6a3852f774c88190ab556b740cff70f3`	completed	June 21, 2026, 9:09 p.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_6a385390b15c81908b6117605f1ec6cd`	completed	June 21, 2026, 9:11 p.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_6a38547dd57c819093fa90fb12160ad9`	completed	June 21, 2026, 9:15 p.m.

Created at: May 3, 2026, 4:04 p.m.