Triple

T393879
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Tecumseh Sherman E8937 entity
Predicate mother P120 FINISHED
Object Mary Hoyt Sherman
Mary Hoyt Sherman was the mother of American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman and a member of the prominent Sherman family of Ohio.
E64132 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: Mary Hoyt Sherman | Statement: [William Tecumseh Sherman, mother, Mary Hoyt Sherman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Hoyt Sherman
Context triple: [William Tecumseh Sherman, mother, Mary Hoyt Sherman]
  • A. Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
    Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch was an American suffragist and women’s rights activist, the daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who played a key role in revitalizing and modernizing the U.S. women’s suffrage movement in the early 20th century.
  • B. Lou Henry Hoover
    Lou Henry Hoover was an American First Lady, geologist, and humanitarian known for her advocacy of women's education and her active public role during Herbert Hoover's presidency.
  • C. Nora Stanton Blatch
    Nora Stanton Blatch was a pioneering American civil engineer, architect, and women's rights activist who was among the first women in the United States to earn an engineering degree.
  • D. Dorothy Walker Bush
    Dorothy Walker Bush was an American socialite and philanthropist best known as the matriarch of the Bush political family and the mother of U.S. President George H. W. Bush.
  • E. Anna Roosevelt Halsted
    Anna Roosevelt Halsted was the eldest daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, known as a writer, newspaper editor, and political activist who played a prominent public role alongside her famous parents.
  • 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: Mary Hoyt Sherman
Triple: [William Tecumseh Sherman, mother, Mary Hoyt Sherman]
Generated description
Mary Hoyt Sherman was the mother of American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman and a member of the prominent Sherman family of Ohio.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Hoyt Sherman
Target entity description: Mary Hoyt Sherman was the mother of American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman and a member of the prominent Sherman family of Ohio.
  • A. Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
    Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch was an American suffragist and women’s rights activist, the daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who played a key role in revitalizing and modernizing the U.S. women’s suffrage movement in the early 20th century.
  • B. Lou Henry Hoover
    Lou Henry Hoover was an American First Lady, geologist, and humanitarian known for her advocacy of women's education and her active public role during Herbert Hoover's presidency.
  • C. Nora Stanton Blatch
    Nora Stanton Blatch was a pioneering American civil engineer, architect, and women's rights activist who was among the first women in the United States to earn an engineering degree.
  • D. Dorothy Walker Bush
    Dorothy Walker Bush was an American socialite and philanthropist best known as the matriarch of the Bush political family and the mother of U.S. President George H. W. Bush.
  • E. Anna Roosevelt Halsted
    Anna Roosevelt Halsted was the eldest daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, known as a writer, newspaper editor, and political activist who played a prominent public role alongside her famous parents.
  • 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_69a4a1492574819095ccb7aa9ce838ad completed March 1, 2026, 8:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4a26550348190a7cbfd9002274fc3 completed March 1, 2026, 8:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4a2b9c744819082dbadd54b0e2a65 completed March 1, 2026, 8:34 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.