Triple

T3781202
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Merriel "Snafu" Shelton E85419 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object Merriel V. Shelton
Merriel V. Shelton was a U.S. Marine whose World War II service inspired the character Merriel “Snafu” Shelton in the HBO miniseries The Pacific.
 E402584 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: Merriel V. Shelton | Statement: [Merriel "Snafu" Shelton, basedOn, Merriel V. Shelton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Merriel V. Shelton
Context triple: [Merriel "Snafu" Shelton, basedOn, Merriel V. Shelton]
  • A. Theoni V. Aldredge
    Theoni V. Aldredge was an acclaimed Greek-American costume designer known for her lavish, period-accurate work in film, theatre, and television, earning multiple Tony and Academy Awards.
  • B. Glenda S. Curry
    Glenda S. Curry is an American Episcopal bishop and religious leader who serves as the diocesan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama.
  • C. Shirley Yarbrough
    Shirley Yarbrough was the wife of prominent civil rights leader and presidential adviser Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
  • D. Elaine R. Jones
    Elaine R. Jones is a prominent American civil rights attorney and trailblazing leader known for her long tenure as president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
  • E. Beverly Franklin
    Beverly Franklin is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Franklin.
  • 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: Merriel V. Shelton
Triple: [Merriel "Snafu" Shelton, basedOn, Merriel V. Shelton]
Generated description
Merriel V. Shelton was a U.S. Marine whose World War II service inspired the character Merriel “Snafu” Shelton in the HBO miniseries The Pacific.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Merriel V. Shelton
Target entity description: Merriel V. Shelton was a U.S. Marine whose World War II service inspired the character Merriel “Snafu” Shelton in the HBO miniseries The Pacific.
  • A. Theoni V. Aldredge
    Theoni V. Aldredge was an acclaimed Greek-American costume designer known for her lavish, period-accurate work in film, theatre, and television, earning multiple Tony and Academy Awards.
  • B. Glenda S. Curry
    Glenda S. Curry is an American Episcopal bishop and religious leader who serves as the diocesan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama.
  • C. Shirley Yarbrough
    Shirley Yarbrough was the wife of prominent civil rights leader and presidential adviser Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
  • D. Elaine R. Jones
    Elaine R. Jones is a prominent American civil rights attorney and trailblazing leader known for her long tenure as president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
  • E. Beverly Franklin
    Beverly Franklin is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Franklin.
  • 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_69aed937fa8881908208ef3801060826 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aee3d98b38819094df9569b549124f completed March 9, 2026, 3:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5336b8d308190a1886ab637173b35 completed March 14, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5375349c08190b10b87f4a9ea635e completed March 14, 2026, 10:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b53807aa8c8190b9fa967ca9c0956c completed March 14, 2026, 10:27 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:12 p.m.