Triple

T393884
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Tecumseh Sherman E8937 entity
Predicate authored P80 FINISHED
Object Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman is the autobiographical account of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s life and military career, particularly his campaigns during the American Civil War.
E50557 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: Memoirs of General William T. Sherman | Statement: [William Tecumseh Sherman, authored, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
Context triple: [William Tecumseh Sherman, authored, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman]
  • A. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
    The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government is a two-volume historical and autobiographical account in which former Confederate president Jefferson Davis defends and explains the origins, conduct, and collapse of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
  • B. Lost Cause of the Confederacy
    The Lost Cause of the Confederacy is a post–Civil War ideological movement that romanticizes the Confederate cause, downplays slavery’s central role, and portrays the South’s defeat as honorable and inevitable.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Sherman’s March to the Sea
    Sherman’s March to the Sea was Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s devastating 1864 campaign across Georgia that aimed to cripple the Confederacy’s war capacity through widespread destruction of military and economic resources.
  • E. A Memory of Solferino
    A Memory of Solferino is a seminal 1862 book by Henry Dunant that vividly recounts the horrors of the Battle of Solferino and inspired the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the modern humanitarian movement.
  • 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: Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
Triple: [William Tecumseh Sherman, authored, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman]
Generated description
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman is the autobiographical account of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s life and military career, particularly his campaigns during the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
Target entity description: Memoirs of General William T. Sherman is the autobiographical account of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s life and military career, particularly his campaigns during the American Civil War.
  • A. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
    The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government is a two-volume historical and autobiographical account in which former Confederate president Jefferson Davis defends and explains the origins, conduct, and collapse of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
  • B. Lost Cause of the Confederacy
    The Lost Cause of the Confederacy is a post–Civil War ideological movement that romanticizes the Confederate cause, downplays slavery’s central role, and portrays the South’s defeat as honorable and inevitable.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Sherman’s March to the Sea
    Sherman’s March to the Sea was Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s devastating 1864 campaign across Georgia that aimed to cripple the Confederacy’s war capacity through widespread destruction of military and economic resources.
  • E. A Memory of Solferino
    A Memory of Solferino is a seminal 1862 book by Henry Dunant that vividly recounts the horrors of the Battle of Solferino and inspired the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the modern humanitarian movement.
  • 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_69a2e7f55c60819097aff65ea2ca2832 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ec77a8a08190b6f96373aa8c1346 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a40ad5f2608190b03860bfc600ac04 completed March 1, 2026, 9:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a40bd204808190aab5cfb362bcea79 completed March 1, 2026, 9:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a40c35783081908c005f6f0793f427 completed March 1, 2026, 9:51 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.