Triple

T10238484
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject March to the Sea E243528 entity
Predicate notableEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Sherman’s Christmas gift telegram to Abraham Lincoln
Sherman’s Christmas gift telegram to Abraham Lincoln was the famous 1864 message in which Union General William Tecumseh Sherman informed President Lincoln of the capture of Savannah, Georgia, presenting the city as a “Christmas gift” during the American Civil War.
E853336 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: Sherman’s Christmas gift telegram to Abraham Lincoln | Statement: [March to the Sea, notableEvent, Sherman’s Christmas gift telegram to Abraham Lincoln]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sherman’s Christmas gift telegram to Abraham Lincoln
Context triple: [March to the Sea, notableEvent, Sherman’s Christmas gift telegram to Abraham Lincoln]
  • A. Lincoln the Unknown
    "Lincoln the Unknown" is a biographical book by Dale Carnegie that offers an accessible, narrative-driven portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s personal struggles and character development.
  • B. Kaiser Wilhelm II Kruger Telegram
    The Kaiser Wilhelm II Kruger Telegram was a 1896 message from the German Emperor congratulating President Paul Kruger of the Transvaal for repelling the Jameson Raid, which inflamed British–German tensions and became a notable diplomatic incident before World War I.
  • C. “The Surrender at Appomattox”
    “The Surrender at Appomattox” is a poem by Herman Melville reflecting on the Confederate surrender that effectively ended the American Civil War.
  • D. Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
    "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight" is a poem by Vachel Lindsay that imagines the restless ghost of Abraham Lincoln wandering the streets of Springfield, Illinois, burdened by the sorrows and conflicts of the modern world.
  • E. The Boy Lincoln
    The Boy Lincoln is a painting by American artist Eastman Johnson that depicts Abraham Lincoln’s humble frontier youth, emphasizing his rise from modest beginnings.
  • 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: Sherman’s Christmas gift telegram to Abraham Lincoln
Triple: [March to the Sea, notableEvent, Sherman’s Christmas gift telegram to Abraham Lincoln]
Generated description
Sherman’s Christmas gift telegram to Abraham Lincoln was the famous 1864 message in which Union General William Tecumseh Sherman informed President Lincoln of the capture of Savannah, Georgia, presenting the city as a “Christmas gift” during the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sherman’s Christmas gift telegram to Abraham Lincoln
Target entity description: Sherman’s Christmas gift telegram to Abraham Lincoln was the famous 1864 message in which Union General William Tecumseh Sherman informed President Lincoln of the capture of Savannah, Georgia, presenting the city as a “Christmas gift” during the American Civil War.
  • A. Lincoln the Unknown
    "Lincoln the Unknown" is a biographical book by Dale Carnegie that offers an accessible, narrative-driven portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s personal struggles and character development.
  • B. Kaiser Wilhelm II Kruger Telegram
    The Kaiser Wilhelm II Kruger Telegram was a 1896 message from the German Emperor congratulating President Paul Kruger of the Transvaal for repelling the Jameson Raid, which inflamed British–German tensions and became a notable diplomatic incident before World War I.
  • C. “The Surrender at Appomattox”
    “The Surrender at Appomattox” is a poem by Herman Melville reflecting on the Confederate surrender that effectively ended the American Civil War.
  • D. Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
    "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight" is a poem by Vachel Lindsay that imagines the restless ghost of Abraham Lincoln wandering the streets of Springfield, Illinois, burdened by the sorrows and conflicts of the modern world.
  • E. The Boy Lincoln
    The Boy Lincoln is a painting by American artist Eastman Johnson that depicts Abraham Lincoln’s humble frontier youth, emphasizing his rise from modest beginnings.
  • 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_69d381b0f97c819085c9b45799a5fb7c completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4d21ca3008190bfbde4074b37592d completed April 7, 2026, 9:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d6f76ca8848190a49d7dc76cf9dd35 completed April 9, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d6fa2f7a848190a9de5de4d0f3f110 completed April 9, 2026, 1 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d6fcbab3ec8190ade1c0223c22ad58 completed April 9, 2026, 1:11 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:23 a.m.