Triple

T19371676
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Larrabee E484552 entity
Predicate predecessor P97 FINISHED
Object Buren R. Sherman
Buren R. Sherman was an American politician who served as the 12th governor of Iowa in the late 19th century.
 E1380881 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: Buren R. Sherman | Statement: [William Larrabee, predecessor, Buren R. Sherman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Buren R. Sherman
Context triple: [William Larrabee, predecessor, Buren R. 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. Moses H. Sherman
    Moses H. Sherman was an American railroad executive and real estate developer who played a key role in the early urban and transportation development of Los Angeles and the American Southwest.
  • C. Harry M. Daugherty
    Harry M. Daugherty was an American politician and lawyer who served as U.S. Attorney General under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, becoming a central figure in several major political scandals of the early 1920s.
  • D. Hoyt Sherman
    Hoyt Sherman was a 19th-century American businessman, civic leader, and arts patron from the prominent Sherman family, best known for his influential role in the development of Des Moines, Iowa.
  • E. George W. Steele
    George W. Steele was an American politician who served as the first governor of the U.S. territory of Oklahoma and later as a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
  • 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: Buren R. Sherman
Triple: [William Larrabee, predecessor, Buren R. Sherman]
Generated description
Buren R. Sherman was an American politician who served as the 12th governor of Iowa in the late 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Buren R. Sherman
Target entity description: Buren R. Sherman was an American politician who served as the 12th governor of Iowa in the late 19th century.
  • 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. Moses H. Sherman
    Moses H. Sherman was an American railroad executive and real estate developer who played a key role in the early urban and transportation development of Los Angeles and the American Southwest.
  • C. Harry M. Daugherty
    Harry M. Daugherty was an American politician and lawyer who served as U.S. Attorney General under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, becoming a central figure in several major political scandals of the early 1920s.
  • D. Hoyt Sherman
    Hoyt Sherman was a 19th-century American businessman, civic leader, and arts patron from the prominent Sherman family, best known for his influential role in the development of Des Moines, Iowa.
  • E. George W. Steele
    George W. Steele was an American politician who served as the first governor of the U.S. territory of Oklahoma and later as a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
  • 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_69d8e8d305088190ad13571532aa454c completed April 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e619b09ef08190a8b420316c0b8eb3 completed April 20, 2026, 12:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a074e6552588190a7ea937419a7fc3e completed May 15, 2026, 4:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a074f1461a4819089f233c8a762bc40 completed May 15, 2026, 4:51 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a074f71a6f48190b3866ed0ea989bc8 completed May 15, 2026, 4:53 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:35 p.m.