Triple

T11257293
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Estelle v. Gamble E266470 entity
Predicate petitioner P3132 FINISHED
Object W. J. Estelle Jr.
W. J. Estelle Jr. was a Texas corrections official who served as the director of the Texas Department of Corrections and was the named state prison authority in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Estelle v. Gamble.
 E914626 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: W. J. Estelle Jr. | Statement: [Estelle v. Gamble, petitioner, W. J. Estelle Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: W. J. Estelle Jr.
Context triple: [Estelle v. Gamble, petitioner, W. J. Estelle Jr.]
  • A. Earl L. Brewer
    Earl L. Brewer was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Mississippi in the early 20th century, known for his progressive reforms and efforts to modernize the state's government.
  • B. James E. Cheek
    James E. Cheek was an American educator and theologian best known for serving as president of Howard University from 1969 to 1989.
  • C. Don E. Brown
    Don E. Brown is known primarily as the son of famed American comic actor and entertainer Joe E. Brown.
  • D. Edward G. Hochuli
    Edward G. Hochuli is a retired American NFL referee and attorney, widely known for his long tenure in the league and his detailed on-field penalty explanations.
  • E. Delbert D. Black
    Delbert D. Black was a United States Navy sailor who became the first senior enlisted advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations, helping to shape the modern role and voice of enlisted personnel in the Navy.
  • 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: W. J. Estelle Jr.
Triple: [Estelle v. Gamble, petitioner, W. J. Estelle Jr.]
Generated description
W. J. Estelle Jr. was a Texas corrections official who served as the director of the Texas Department of Corrections and was the named state prison authority in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Estelle v. Gamble.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: W. J. Estelle Jr.
Target entity description: W. J. Estelle Jr. was a Texas corrections official who served as the director of the Texas Department of Corrections and was the named state prison authority in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Estelle v. Gamble.
  • A. Earl L. Brewer
    Earl L. Brewer was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Mississippi in the early 20th century, known for his progressive reforms and efforts to modernize the state's government.
  • B. James E. Cheek
    James E. Cheek was an American educator and theologian best known for serving as president of Howard University from 1969 to 1989.
  • C. Don E. Brown
    Don E. Brown is known primarily as the son of famed American comic actor and entertainer Joe E. Brown.
  • D. Edward G. Hochuli
    Edward G. Hochuli is a retired American NFL referee and attorney, widely known for his long tenure in the league and his detailed on-field penalty explanations.
  • E. Delbert D. Black
    Delbert D. Black was a United States Navy sailor who became the first senior enlisted advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations, helping to shape the modern role and voice of enlisted personnel in the Navy.
  • 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_69d6aac7953c8190b82caf9d7640fdf9 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e935b85c819085e1abf2dd4099c5 completed April 9, 2026, 6 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e4cca0d25c8190bfdbe1f6ee3b04cb completed April 19, 2026, 12:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e4d9ec9964819084bd7118e49c41a2 completed April 19, 2026, 1:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e4ddab4ef48190ab7f371da765c6c0 completed April 19, 2026, 1:50 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:31 p.m.