Triple

T7572691
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ellen Ewing Sherman E179282 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Charles Celestine Sherman
Charles Celestine Sherman was a son of American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and his wife Ellen Ewing Sherman.
 E673774 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: Charles Celestine Sherman | Statement: [Ellen Ewing Sherman, child, Charles Celestine Sherman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Charles Celestine Sherman
Context triple: [Ellen Ewing Sherman, child, Charles Celestine Sherman]
  • A. Charles Taylor Sherman
    Charles Taylor Sherman was a 19th-century American lawyer and judge, and the elder brother of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman.
  • B. Charles Robert Sherman
    Charles Robert Sherman was an American lawyer and Ohio Supreme Court justice best known as the father of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Charles Coffin Little
    Charles Coffin Little was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential publishing house Little, Brown and Company.
  • E. Carr Bowers McClenny
    Carr Bowers McClenny was a prominent local figure and landowner after whom the city of Macclenny, Florida, was named.
  • 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: Charles Celestine Sherman
Triple: [Ellen Ewing Sherman, child, Charles Celestine Sherman]
Generated description
Charles Celestine Sherman was a son of American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and his wife Ellen Ewing Sherman.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Charles Celestine Sherman
Target entity description: Charles Celestine Sherman was a son of American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and his wife Ellen Ewing Sherman.
  • A. Charles Taylor Sherman
    Charles Taylor Sherman was a 19th-century American lawyer and judge, and the elder brother of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman.
  • B. Charles Robert Sherman
    Charles Robert Sherman was an American lawyer and Ohio Supreme Court justice best known as the father of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Charles Coffin Little
    Charles Coffin Little was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential publishing house Little, Brown and Company.
  • E. Carr Bowers McClenny
    Carr Bowers McClenny was a prominent local figure and landowner after whom the city of Macclenny, Florida, was named.
  • 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_69c856ea9a2c8190a81762ac509c4c97 completed March 28, 2026, 10:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8587b461c819081b63e71b533547a completed March 28, 2026, 10:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c858fd9d4081909bb2072fcc3e3836 completed March 28, 2026, 10:41 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:51 p.m.