Triple

T7572689
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ellen Ewing Sherman E179282 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Thomas Ewing Sherman
Thomas Ewing Sherman was an American lawyer who became a Jesuit priest and educator, known as the son of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and Ellen Ewing Sherman.
E676528 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: Thomas Ewing Sherman | Statement: [Ellen Ewing Sherman, child, Thomas Ewing Sherman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Ewing Sherman
Context triple: [Ellen Ewing Sherman, child, Thomas Ewing Sherman]
  • A. 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.
  • B. William Tecumseh Sherman
    William Tecumseh Sherman was a prominent Union general in the American Civil War, best known for his "March to the Sea" and his strategy of total war against the Confederacy.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Chaffee Grant
    Chaffee Grant was a member of the prominent Grant family, descended from U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant through his son Ulysses S. Grant Jr.
  • E. Kirby Smith
    Kirby Smith was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War, best known for commanding the vast Trans-Mississippi Department.
  • 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: Thomas Ewing Sherman
Triple: [Ellen Ewing Sherman, child, Thomas Ewing Sherman]
Generated description
Thomas Ewing Sherman was an American lawyer who became a Jesuit priest and educator, known as the son of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and Ellen Ewing Sherman.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Ewing Sherman
Target entity description: Thomas Ewing Sherman was an American lawyer who became a Jesuit priest and educator, known as the son of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and Ellen Ewing Sherman.
  • A. 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.
  • B. William Tecumseh Sherman
    William Tecumseh Sherman was a prominent Union general in the American Civil War, best known for his "March to the Sea" and his strategy of total war against the Confederacy.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Chaffee Grant
    Chaffee Grant was a member of the prominent Grant family, descended from U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant through his son Ulysses S. Grant Jr.
  • E. Kirby Smith
    Kirby Smith was a senior Confederate general during the American Civil War, best known for commanding the vast Trans-Mississippi Department.
  • 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_69c8683baa248190964922e0add0b697 completed March 28, 2026, 11:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c869676d908190bc93f6f6783f1102 completed March 28, 2026, 11:51 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c869c54ad08190ba42231080d0e9f3 completed March 28, 2026, 11:52 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:51 p.m.