Triple

T51314
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Civil War E1006 entity
Predicate hasCommander P1197 FINISHED
Object 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.
E8937 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 Tecumseh Sherman | Statement: [American Civil War, hasCommander, William Tecumseh Sherman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Tecumseh Sherman
Context triple: [American Civil War, hasCommander, William Tecumseh Sherman]
  • A. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
    Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a U.S. Army lieutenant general in World War II who led the Tenth Army in the Pacific and was the highest-ranking American officer killed by enemy fire during the war.
  • B. Robert E. Lee
    Robert E. Lee was a prominent 19th-century American military officer best known as the leading Confederate general during the American Civil War.
  • C. James Longstreet
    James Longstreet was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War, best known as one of Robert E. Lee’s most trusted corps commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia.
  • D. Douglas MacArthur
    Douglas MacArthur was a prominent American five-star general who played a leading role in the Pacific theater during World War II and later oversaw the Allied occupation of Japan.
  • E. Lord Roberts
    Lord Roberts was a prominent British field marshal who led imperial forces during key late-19th-century colonial campaigns, including in South Africa and India.
  • 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 Tecumseh Sherman
Triple: [American Civil War, hasCommander, William Tecumseh Sherman]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Tecumseh Sherman
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
    Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. was a U.S. Army lieutenant general in World War II who led the Tenth Army in the Pacific and was the highest-ranking American officer killed by enemy fire during the war.
  • B. Robert E. Lee
    Robert E. Lee was a prominent 19th-century American military officer best known as the leading Confederate general during the American Civil War.
  • C. James Longstreet
    James Longstreet was a prominent Confederate general during the American Civil War, best known as one of Robert E. Lee’s most trusted corps commanders in the Army of Northern Virginia.
  • D. Douglas MacArthur
    Douglas MacArthur was a prominent American five-star general who played a leading role in the Pacific theater during World War II and later oversaw the Allied occupation of Japan.
  • E. Lord Roberts
    Lord Roberts was a prominent British field marshal who led imperial forces during key late-19th-century colonial campaigns, including in South Africa and India.
  • 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_69a2480baefc81909951b14058479aa2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:42 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24b0382b48190a7ca80ade6d2e270 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a266e716048190a57f681fccb4fdeb completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a267b740388190a321023aa52a539a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2685dc64c8190bd611985d1bc27a3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 4 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:47 a.m.