Triple

T393876
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Tecumseh Sherman E8937 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Ellen Ewing Sherman
Ellen Ewing Sherman was a 19th-century American Catholic socialite and philanthropist, best known as the politically connected wife of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and the foster daughter of influential politician Thomas Ewing.
E179282 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: Ellen Ewing Sherman | Statement: [William Tecumseh Sherman, spouse, Ellen Ewing Sherman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ellen Ewing Sherman
Context triple: [William Tecumseh Sherman, spouse, Ellen Ewing Sherman]
  • A. Ellen Louisa Tucker
    Ellen Louisa Tucker was the first wife of American transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose early death deeply influenced his life and work.
  • B. Eunice Scott
    Eunice Scott was a member of the Scott family and the sister of American civil rights leader Coretta Scott King.
  • C. Mary Spencer Hull
    Mary Spencer Hull was the wife of Sir William Phips, the first royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay during the late 17th century.
  • D. Edith Emerson
    Edith Emerson was a daughter of the American transcendentalist essayist and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, known primarily through her connection to his family and correspondence.
  • E. Susan Packard Orr
    Susan Packard Orr is an American philanthropist and former technology executive known for her leadership roles in the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and on the board of Hewlett-Packard.
  • 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: Ellen Ewing Sherman
Triple: [William Tecumseh Sherman, spouse, Ellen Ewing Sherman]
Generated description
Ellen Ewing Sherman was a 19th-century American Catholic socialite and philanthropist, best known as the politically connected wife of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and the foster daughter of influential politician Thomas Ewing.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ellen Ewing Sherman
Target entity description: Ellen Ewing Sherman was a 19th-century American Catholic socialite and philanthropist, best known as the politically connected wife of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and the foster daughter of influential politician Thomas Ewing.
  • A. Ellen Louisa Tucker
    Ellen Louisa Tucker was the first wife of American transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose early death deeply influenced his life and work.
  • B. Eunice Scott
    Eunice Scott was a member of the Scott family and the sister of American civil rights leader Coretta Scott King.
  • C. Mary Spencer Hull
    Mary Spencer Hull was the wife of Sir William Phips, the first royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay during the late 17th century.
  • D. Edith Emerson
    Edith Emerson was a daughter of the American transcendentalist essayist and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, known primarily through her connection to his family and correspondence.
  • E. Susan Packard Orr
    Susan Packard Orr is an American philanthropist and former technology executive known for her leadership roles in the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and on the board of Hewlett-Packard.
  • 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_69a2e7f55c60819097aff65ea2ca2832 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ec77a8a08190b6f96373aa8c1346 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad3feda6b88190839b760b1f89af03 completed March 8, 2026, 9:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad40cb84d081908c6e1651989de716 completed March 8, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad41b1192c81909b89013d8296fd22 completed March 8, 2026, 9:30 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.