Triple

T10810728
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject On Moonlight Bay E255091 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object William Sherman
William Sherman is the charming, mischievous teenage boy who serves as the romantic interest of Doris Day’s character in the classic musical film "On Moonlight Bay."
E890845 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: William Sherman | Statement: [On Moonlight Bay, mainCharacter, William Sherman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Sherman
Context triple: [On Moonlight Bay, mainCharacter, William Sherman]
  • A. 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.
  • 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. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: William Sherman
Triple: [On Moonlight Bay, mainCharacter, William Sherman]
Generated description
William Sherman is the charming, mischievous teenage boy who serves as the romantic interest of Doris Day’s character in the classic musical film "On Moonlight Bay."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Sherman
Target entity description: William Sherman is the charming, mischievous teenage boy who serves as the romantic interest of Doris Day’s character in the classic musical film "On Moonlight Bay."
  • A. 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.
  • 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. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69d6aa61c15c8190a1839550c56e75e1 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d733b7bfac8190b6ae34144376d6ad completed April 9, 2026, 5:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69dff7c0907c8190b092bb6754fe4e52 completed April 15, 2026, 8:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e0026e7900819087327db5f625169c completed April 15, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e0057a7704819096becb74dc261883 completed April 15, 2026, 9:39 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:18 p.m.