Triple

T7572686
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ellen Ewing Sherman E179282 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Maria Ewing Sherman
Maria Ewing Sherman was one of the daughters of American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and his wife Ellen Ewing Sherman, known primarily through her connection to this prominent 19th-century U.S. family.
E689191 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: Maria Ewing Sherman | Statement: [Ellen Ewing Sherman, child, Maria Ewing Sherman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maria Ewing Sherman
Context triple: [Ellen Ewing Sherman, child, Maria Ewing Sherman]
  • A. Mary Hoyt Sherman
    Mary Hoyt Sherman was the mother of American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman and a member of the prominent Sherman family of Ohio.
  • B. Jane Elizabeth Lathrop
    Jane Elizabeth Lathrop, better known as Jane Stanford, was an American philanthropist and co-founder of Stanford University alongside her husband Leland Stanford.
  • C. Ellen Ewing Sherman
    Ellen Ewing Sherman was a 19th-century American Catholic socialite and philanthropist, best known as the politically connected wife of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and the foster daughter of influential politician Thomas Ewing.
  • D. Mary McVicker Booth
    Mary McVicker Booth was a 19th-century American actress best known for her stage career and for being the second wife of renowned tragedian Edwin Booth.
  • E. Elizabeth Champlin Mason
    Elizabeth Champlin Mason was the wife of U.S. naval hero Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, noted for her connection to his prominent role in the War of 1812.
  • 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: Maria Ewing Sherman
Triple: [Ellen Ewing Sherman, child, Maria Ewing Sherman]
Generated description
Maria Ewing Sherman was one of the daughters of American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and his wife Ellen Ewing Sherman, known primarily through her connection to this prominent 19th-century U.S. family.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maria Ewing Sherman
Target entity description: Maria Ewing Sherman was one of the daughters of American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and his wife Ellen Ewing Sherman, known primarily through her connection to this prominent 19th-century U.S. family.
  • A. Mary Hoyt Sherman
    Mary Hoyt Sherman was the mother of American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman and a member of the prominent Sherman family of Ohio.
  • B. Jane Elizabeth Lathrop
    Jane Elizabeth Lathrop, better known as Jane Stanford, was an American philanthropist and co-founder of Stanford University alongside her husband Leland Stanford.
  • C. Ellen Ewing Sherman
    Ellen Ewing Sherman was a 19th-century American Catholic socialite and philanthropist, best known as the politically connected wife of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and the foster daughter of influential politician Thomas Ewing.
  • D. Mary McVicker Booth
    Mary McVicker Booth was a 19th-century American actress best known for her stage career and for being the second wife of renowned tragedian Edwin Booth.
  • E. Elizabeth Champlin Mason
    Elizabeth Champlin Mason was the wife of U.S. naval hero Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, noted for her connection to his prominent role in the War of 1812.
  • 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_69c69f316e50819081a271c85c06f918 completed March 27, 2026, 3:16 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f94710a0819094508356b8d610ab completed March 27, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8f30833588190a7217fdf160f2d49 completed March 29, 2026, 9:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8f392edd8819089852a9fd71cc970 completed March 29, 2026, 9:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8f48bdf1c8190aab34120be7b08e1 completed March 29, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:51 p.m.