Triple

T7268959
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Allie Sherman E161051 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Alexander Victor Sherman
Alexander Victor Sherman, better known as Allie Sherman, was an American football coach and former NFL head coach of the New York Giants in the 1960s.
E652951 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: Alexander Victor Sherman | Statement: [Allie Sherman, fullName, Alexander Victor Sherman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Victor Sherman
Context triple: [Allie Sherman, fullName, Alexander Victor Sherman]
  • A. George J. Sherman
    George J. Sherman is a benefactor and namesake associated with collegiate athletics facilities, notably lending his name to the George J. Sherman Family–Sports Complex.
  • B. James S. Sherman
    James S. Sherman was an American politician who served as the 27th vice president of the United States under President William Howard Taft from 1909 until his death in 1912.
  • C. Frederick Dent Grant
    Frederick Dent Grant was an American military officer and diplomat who served as a general in the U.S. Army and the eldest son of President Ulysses S. Grant.
  • D. Thomas W. Sherman
    Thomas W. Sherman was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, noted for leading significant operations in the Western Theater.
  • E. George Holt Thomas
    George Holt Thomas was a pioneering British aviation entrepreneur and newspaper magnate who played a key role in the early development of the aircraft industry.
  • 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: Alexander Victor Sherman
Triple: [Allie Sherman, fullName, Alexander Victor Sherman]
Generated description
Alexander Victor Sherman, better known as Allie Sherman, was an American football coach and former NFL head coach of the New York Giants in the 1960s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Victor Sherman
Target entity description: Alexander Victor Sherman, better known as Allie Sherman, was an American football coach and former NFL head coach of the New York Giants in the 1960s.
  • A. George J. Sherman
    George J. Sherman is a benefactor and namesake associated with collegiate athletics facilities, notably lending his name to the George J. Sherman Family–Sports Complex.
  • B. James S. Sherman
    James S. Sherman was an American politician who served as the 27th vice president of the United States under President William Howard Taft from 1909 until his death in 1912.
  • C. Frederick Dent Grant
    Frederick Dent Grant was an American military officer and diplomat who served as a general in the U.S. Army and the eldest son of President Ulysses S. Grant.
  • D. Thomas W. Sherman
    Thomas W. Sherman was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, noted for leading significant operations in the Western Theater.
  • E. George Holt Thomas
    George Holt Thomas was a pioneering British aviation entrepreneur and newspaper magnate who played a key role in the early development of the aircraft industry.
  • 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_69c6885181008190b419040e22939c7c completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6eae8cc288190bc3ae3c7b38980d0 completed March 27, 2026, 8:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7db1e4f9c8190a23ce5a35073b7c7 completed March 28, 2026, 1:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7dbd350a08190aa34ada9ba8d39ce completed March 28, 2026, 1:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7dc7cb2d48190a40523eb7b03a9ef completed March 28, 2026, 1:49 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:58 p.m.