Triple
T5720753
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Western Theater of the American Civil War |
E126136
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableUnionCommander |
P17957
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Tecumseh Sherman |
E8937
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: [Western Theater of the American Civil War, notableUnionCommander, William Tecumseh Sherman]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Tecumseh Sherman Context triple: [Western Theater of the American Civil War, notableUnionCommander, William Tecumseh Sherman]
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A.
William Tecumseh Sherman
chosen
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.
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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.
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C.
Guy Levis Grant
Guy Levis Grant was an American dentist and educator best known as one of the ten founders of the historically Black fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi.
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D.
Frederick Dent Grant
Frederick Dent Grant was an American military officer and diplomat who served as a general in the U.S. Army and the eldest son of President Ulysses S. Grant.
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E.
Chaffee Grant
Chaffee Grant was a member of the prominent Grant family, descended from U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant through his son Ulysses S. Grant Jr.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69c0082e3d548190950169847b43043b |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c0335cf55c8190937a8657406ac4a2 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 6:22 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c05a7db0788190b4a5e7b5d9c94588 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 9:09 p.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:46 p.m.