Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James M. McPherson E120029 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War
This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War is a collection of essays by historian James M. McPherson that examines the causes, conduct, and consequences of the American Civil War from multiple interpretive angles.
E509624 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: This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War | Statement: [James M. McPherson, notableWork, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War
Context triple: [James M. McPherson, notableWork, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War]
  • A. The True Story of the Civil War
    The True Story of the Civil War is a short documentary film that presents an overview of the American Civil War using period photographs, documents, and narration to depict the conflict’s major events and significance.
  • B. American Civil War–era congressional debates
    American Civil War–era congressional debates were intense legislative discussions in the U.S. Congress over issues such as secession, slavery, wartime powers, and Reconstruction that helped shape the nation’s political and constitutional trajectory during and after the Civil War.
  • C. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
    Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era is James M. McPherson’s acclaimed one-volume history of the American Civil War, renowned for its comprehensive narrative and scholarly insight.
  • D. The Blue and the Gray
    The Blue and the Gray is a 1982 American television miniseries that dramatizes the American Civil War through the intertwined lives of two families on opposing sides of the conflict.
  • E. From Manassas to Appomattox
    From Manassas to Appomattox is the memoir of Confederate General James Longstreet, recounting his experiences and perspectives on major campaigns of 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: This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War
Triple: [James M. McPherson, notableWork, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War]
Generated description
This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War is a collection of essays by historian James M. McPherson that examines the causes, conduct, and consequences of the American Civil War from multiple interpretive angles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War
Target entity description: This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War is a collection of essays by historian James M. McPherson that examines the causes, conduct, and consequences of the American Civil War from multiple interpretive angles.
  • A. The True Story of the Civil War
    The True Story of the Civil War is a short documentary film that presents an overview of the American Civil War using period photographs, documents, and narration to depict the conflict’s major events and significance.
  • B. American Civil War–era congressional debates
    American Civil War–era congressional debates were intense legislative discussions in the U.S. Congress over issues such as secession, slavery, wartime powers, and Reconstruction that helped shape the nation’s political and constitutional trajectory during and after the Civil War.
  • C. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
    Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era is James M. McPherson’s acclaimed one-volume history of the American Civil War, renowned for its comprehensive narrative and scholarly insight.
  • D. The Blue and the Gray
    The Blue and the Gray is a 1982 American television miniseries that dramatizes the American Civil War through the intertwined lives of two families on opposing sides of the conflict.
  • E. From Manassas to Appomattox
    From Manassas to Appomattox is the memoir of Confederate General James Longstreet, recounting his experiences and perspectives on major campaigns of 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_69bd44704be88190acdb2ac481b0ff55 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd851b685c8190b7ed8c762a807395 completed March 20, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf10f3b9ac81909cd2ca2278b11d3e completed March 21, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf11635b9c819092130c46caea9306 completed March 21, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf11e982d08190bc74312bf6ee7127 completed March 21, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:53 p.m.