Triple

T10896206
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Virgil Tibbs E257315 entity
Predicate notableInteraction P1700 FINISHED
Object Bill Gillespie E256273 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: Bill Gillespie | Statement: [Virgil Tibbs, notableInteraction, Bill Gillespie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bill Gillespie
Context triple: [Virgil Tibbs, notableInteraction, Bill Gillespie]
  • A. Bill Gillespie chosen
    Bill Gillespie is the white, small-town Mississippi police chief whose uneasy but evolving partnership with Black detective Virgil Tibbs drives the racial and social tensions at the heart of "In the Heat of the Night."
  • B. Jim Gillespie
    Jim Gillespie is a Scottish film director best known for helming the 1997 teen slasher hit "I Know What You Did Last Summer."
  • C. Bill Baillie
    Bill Baillie was a prominent New Zealand middle- and long-distance runner known for his competitive performances during the 1950s and 1960s.
  • D. Bill Ferguson
    Bill Ferguson is an American Democratic politician who serves as president of the Maryland Senate, representing Baltimore in the state legislature.
  • E. Donald Dewar
    Donald Dewar was a Scottish Labour politician widely regarded as the architect of Scottish devolution and the inaugural head of the modern Scottish Government.
  • 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_69d6aa8550c8819095508a2ed9acf3db completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d75d022f4c81909cd9ea27a9f0cd32 completed April 9, 2026, 8:02 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e216b417bc8190b35477e9d363a289 completed April 17, 2026, 11:17 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:21 p.m.