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]
  • 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
  • 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.