Triple

T926205
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Howard Taft E19987 entity
Predicate vicePresident P147 FINISHED
Object 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.
 E132814 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: James S. Sherman | Statement: [William Howard Taft, vicePresident, James S. Sherman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James S. Sherman
Context triple: [William Howard Taft, vicePresident, James S. Sherman]
  • A. James Clark McReynolds
    James Clark McReynolds was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1914–1941) known for his conservative views and opposition to many New Deal programs.
  • B. Benjamin C. Howard
    Benjamin C. Howard was a 19th-century American lawyer and court reporter best known for serving as the Reporter of Decisions for the U.S. Supreme Court, where he compiled and published the official Howard Reports.
  • C. Alexander Cushing
    Alexander Cushing was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the visionary founder who developed Squaw Valley into a major ski resort and host of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
  • D. William F. Raynolds
    William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
  • E. William C. Foster
    William C. Foster was an American government official and diplomat best known for his leadership roles in U.S. foreign aid and arms control policy during the mid-20th century.
  • 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: James S. Sherman
Triple: [William Howard Taft, vicePresident, James S. Sherman]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James S. Sherman
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. James Clark McReynolds
    James Clark McReynolds was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1914–1941) known for his conservative views and opposition to many New Deal programs.
  • B. Benjamin C. Howard
    Benjamin C. Howard was a 19th-century American lawyer and court reporter best known for serving as the Reporter of Decisions for the U.S. Supreme Court, where he compiled and published the official Howard Reports.
  • C. Alexander Cushing
    Alexander Cushing was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the visionary founder who developed Squaw Valley into a major ski resort and host of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
  • D. William F. Raynolds
    William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
  • E. William C. Foster
    William C. Foster was an American government official and diplomat best known for his leadership roles in U.S. foreign aid and arms control policy during the mid-20th century.
  • 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_69a493a099788190a696d9d8408cbaf4 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b32c5b508190a570c94a6647ba70 completed March 1, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac6611ad508190aac3a6f15a63bbe8 completed March 7, 2026, 5:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac66a8430c819088544c91725e57bc completed March 7, 2026, 5:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac671d04e48190b839f29511e4cfb5 completed March 7, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.