Triple
T12438516
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Just Mercy |
E297209
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Walter McMillian
Walter McMillian was an African American man from Alabama who was wrongfully convicted of murder and later exonerated, becoming a central figure in Bryan Stevenson’s memoir and film "Just Mercy" that exposed systemic racism and injustice in the U.S. criminal legal system.
|
E984590
|
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: Walter McMillian | Statement: [Just Mercy, mainCharacter, Walter McMillian]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter McMillian Context triple: [Just Mercy, mainCharacter, Walter McMillian]
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A.
James Byrd Jr.
James Byrd Jr. was an African American man whose brutal 1998 racially motivated murder in Texas became a catalyst for strengthening U.S. hate crime legislation.
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B.
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Jimmie Lee Jackson was a young African American civil rights activist whose 1965 killing by an Alabama state trooper became a catalyst for the Selma to Montgomery marches and the Voting Rights Act.
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C.
Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American boy whose brutal 1955 lynching in Mississippi became a catalyst for the modern U.S. civil rights movement.
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D.
Jeral Wayne Williams
Jeral Wayne Williams, better known as Mutulu Shakur, was an American activist, acupuncturist, and Black Liberation Army member associated with Black liberation movements and the stepfather of rapper Tupac Shakur.
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E.
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was a prominent African American civil rights leader and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi whose assassination in 1963 made him a martyr of the struggle against racial segregation and injustice.
- 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: Walter McMillian Triple: [Just Mercy, mainCharacter, Walter McMillian]
Generated description
Walter McMillian was an African American man from Alabama who was wrongfully convicted of murder and later exonerated, becoming a central figure in Bryan Stevenson’s memoir and film "Just Mercy" that exposed systemic racism and injustice in the U.S. criminal legal system.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter McMillian Target entity description: Walter McMillian was an African American man from Alabama who was wrongfully convicted of murder and later exonerated, becoming a central figure in Bryan Stevenson’s memoir and film "Just Mercy" that exposed systemic racism and injustice in the U.S. criminal legal system.
-
A.
James Byrd Jr.
James Byrd Jr. was an African American man whose brutal 1998 racially motivated murder in Texas became a catalyst for strengthening U.S. hate crime legislation.
-
B.
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Jimmie Lee Jackson was a young African American civil rights activist whose 1965 killing by an Alabama state trooper became a catalyst for the Selma to Montgomery marches and the Voting Rights Act.
-
C.
Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American boy whose brutal 1955 lynching in Mississippi became a catalyst for the modern U.S. civil rights movement.
-
D.
Jeral Wayne Williams
Jeral Wayne Williams, better known as Mutulu Shakur, was an American activist, acupuncturist, and Black Liberation Army member associated with Black liberation movements and the stepfather of rapper Tupac Shakur.
-
E.
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was a prominent African American civil rights leader and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi whose assassination in 1963 made him a martyr of the struggle against racial segregation and injustice.
- 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_69d6ada166c48190b902972cd2408fa3 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d94d8dc0f881908a3da736d8947ce1 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 7:20 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f63f0911a08190ba84a20950762e68 |
completed | May 2, 2026, 6:14 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69f640ef7dd08190bf78d04cffac1a44 |
completed | May 2, 2026, 6:22 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69f641ad96fc819097430251a1cd71ff |
completed | May 2, 2026, 6:25 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:55 p.m.