Triple

T7572692
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ellen Ewing Sherman E179282 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
Philemon Tecumseh Sherman was a son of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and Ellen Ewing Sherman who lived a largely private life outside his father's military fame.
E677640 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: Philemon Tecumseh Sherman | Statement: [Ellen Ewing Sherman, child, Philemon Tecumseh Sherman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
Context triple: [Ellen Ewing Sherman, child, Philemon Tecumseh Sherman]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. William Meade
    William Meade was a prominent 19th-century American Episcopal bishop and religious leader known for his influential role in the church and in Virginia society.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
Triple: [Ellen Ewing Sherman, child, Philemon Tecumseh Sherman]
Generated description
Philemon Tecumseh Sherman was a son of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and Ellen Ewing Sherman who lived a largely private life outside his father's military fame.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
Target entity description: Philemon Tecumseh Sherman was a son of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and Ellen Ewing Sherman who lived a largely private life outside his father's military fame.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. William Meade
    William Meade was a prominent 19th-century American Episcopal bishop and religious leader known for his influential role in the church and in Virginia society.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69c8707beee881909199518c8ceb3076 completed March 29, 2026, 12:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c872bd335c8190af5d3bd6da60403c completed March 29, 2026, 12:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8734edaf081908b64f1abd95dd0c6 completed March 29, 2026, 12:33 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:51 p.m.