Triple

T9651499
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Battle of Maiwand E233344 entity
Predicate combatantCommanderBritishSide P15644 FINISHED
Object Brigadier General George Burrows
Brigadier General George Burrows was a British Indian Army officer best known for commanding the British-Indian forces at the disastrous 1880 Battle of Maiwand during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
E813461 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Brigadier General George Burrows | Statement: [Battle of Maiwand, combatantCommanderBritishSide, Brigadier General George Burrows]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brigadier General George Burrows
Context triple: [Battle of Maiwand, combatantCommanderBritishSide, Brigadier General George Burrows]
  • A. Brigadier General Joshua W. Sill
    Brigadier General Joshua W. Sill was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, remembered for his leadership and for being killed in action at the Battle of Stones River.
  • B. Brigadier-General John Seely
    Brigadier-General John Seely was a British soldier and politician who notably led the Canadian Cavalry Brigade during the First World War.
  • C. Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed
    Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed was a U.S. Army officer and Civil War brigadier general who was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • D. Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner
    Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner was a Loyalist military leader and former attorney general of New Jersey who commanded provincial forces in support of the British during the American Revolutionary War.
  • E. Colonel George F. James
    Colonel George F. James was a notable figure in California history whose prominence led to the town of Jamestown being named in his honor.
  • 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: Brigadier General George Burrows
Triple: [Battle of Maiwand, combatantCommanderBritishSide, Brigadier General George Burrows]
Generated description
Brigadier General George Burrows was a British Indian Army officer best known for commanding the British-Indian forces at the disastrous 1880 Battle of Maiwand during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brigadier General George Burrows
Target entity description: Brigadier General George Burrows was a British Indian Army officer best known for commanding the British-Indian forces at the disastrous 1880 Battle of Maiwand during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
  • A. Brigadier General Joshua W. Sill
    Brigadier General Joshua W. Sill was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, remembered for his leadership and for being killed in action at the Battle of Stones River.
  • B. Brigadier-General John Seely
    Brigadier-General John Seely was a British soldier and politician who notably led the Canadian Cavalry Brigade during the First World War.
  • C. Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed
    Brigadier General Stephen H. Weed was a U.S. Army officer and Civil War brigadier general who was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • D. Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner
    Brigadier General Cortlandt Skinner was a Loyalist military leader and former attorney general of New Jersey who commanded provincial forces in support of the British during the American Revolutionary War.
  • E. Colonel George F. James
    Colonel George F. James was a notable figure in California history whose prominence led to the town of Jamestown being named in his honor.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: combatantCommanderBritishSide
Context triple: [Battle of Maiwand, combatantCommanderBritishSide, Brigadier General George Burrows]
  • A. commandingOfficerBritishSide chosen
    Indicates that one entity serves as the commanding officer of another entity on the British side in a military context.
  • B. combatantRoleOfUnitedKingdom
    Indicates that the specified combatant role is one that was held by, or associated with, the United Kingdom in a particular conflict or military context.
  • C. BritishForcesType
    Indicates that an entity is classified as a type or category within the British armed forces.
  • D. strengthBritishForces
    Indicates the numerical size or combat capacity of British military forces in a given context or operation.
  • E. strength_British_side
    Indicates the level or measure of military or strategic power possessed by the British side in a given context.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69ca848b31648190b57aa55da20285be completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9bb0cce88190b7eacc8b43450d7f completed April 1, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d18a03438c8190a3419cbed7af4cd4 completed April 4, 2026, 10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d18a7f4074819086316d0236f09e0b completed April 4, 2026, 10:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d18af220808190b91eb750f2939e4e completed April 4, 2026, 10:04 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69ccd5b0263081908cf6df3eb07d71b0 completed April 1, 2026, 8:22 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:13 p.m.