Triple

T22634576
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sherman E558644 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Frank D. Sherman
Frank D. Sherman was an American poet and professor of graphics at Columbia University known for his light verse and collaborations with illustrator Clinton Scollard.
E1548651 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: Frank D. Sherman | Statement: [Sherman, hasNotableBearer, Frank D. Sherman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank D. Sherman
Context triple: [Sherman, hasNotableBearer, Frank D. Sherman]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Rufus C. Dawes
    Rufus C. Dawes was an American businessman and civic leader known for his prominent role in organizing major public events and institutions in Chicago in the early 20th century.
  • C. Daniel Stewart Sherman
    Daniel Stewart Sherman is an American stage actor known for originating roles in major Broadway productions, including the musical "Kinky Boots."
  • D. Enos M. Barton
    Enos M. Barton was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of Western Electric, a major telecommunications manufacturing company.
  • E. Orville Hitchcock Platt
    Orville Hitchcock Platt was an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as a long-time U.S. Senator from Connecticut in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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: Frank D. Sherman
Triple: [Sherman, hasNotableBearer, Frank D. Sherman]
Generated description
Frank D. Sherman was an American poet and professor of graphics at Columbia University known for his light verse and collaborations with illustrator Clinton Scollard.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank D. Sherman
Target entity description: Frank D. Sherman was an American poet and professor of graphics at Columbia University known for his light verse and collaborations with illustrator Clinton Scollard.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Rufus C. Dawes
    Rufus C. Dawes was an American businessman and civic leader known for his prominent role in organizing major public events and institutions in Chicago in the early 20th century.
  • C. Daniel Stewart Sherman
    Daniel Stewart Sherman is an American stage actor known for originating roles in major Broadway productions, including the musical "Kinky Boots."
  • D. Enos M. Barton
    Enos M. Barton was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of Western Electric, a major telecommunications manufacturing company.
  • E. Orville Hitchcock Platt
    Orville Hitchcock Platt was an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as a long-time U.S. Senator from Connecticut in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69e245467d9881908d6985bd0db7a1f1 completed April 17, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1700d492081909bab8d9dbb1faef2 completed April 29, 2026, 2:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0b73dc84108190842a375b13251e99 completed May 18, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0b74d5149c819080cdef5495ab5ea1 completed May 18, 2026, 8:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0b761510b48190a09722be3fca7e93 completed May 18, 2026, 8:27 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:03 p.m.