Triple

T1596417
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Old Courthouse (St. Louis) E34291 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object Dred Scott
Dred Scott was an enslaved African American man whose unsuccessful lawsuit for freedom led to the infamous 1857 Supreme Court decision denying citizenship and rights to Black people in the United States.
E181548 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: Dred Scott | Statement: [Old Courthouse (St. Louis), associatedWith, Dred Scott]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dred Scott
Context triple: [Old Courthouse (St. Louis), associatedWith, Dred Scott]
  • A. Dred Scott v. Sandford
    Dred Scott v. Sandford was an 1857 U.S. Supreme Court decision that infamously denied citizenship and constitutional rights to African Americans and helped accelerate tensions leading to the Civil War.
  • B. Homer Plessy
    Homer Plessy was a mixed-race Louisiana shoemaker and civil rights activist best known for challenging racial segregation laws in the landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • C. Tapping Reeve
    Tapping Reeve was an American lawyer and jurist best known for founding the Litchfield Law School, the first formal law school in the United States.
  • D. Archibald Grimké
    Archibald Grimké was an African American lawyer, journalist, and civil rights leader of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who played a key role in the early struggle against racial discrimination in the United States.
  • E. David Bates Douglass
    David Bates Douglass was a 19th-century American civil engineer and landscape designer known for his influential work on rural cemeteries and public grounds.
  • 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: Dred Scott
Triple: [Old Courthouse (St. Louis), associatedWith, Dred Scott]
Generated description
Dred Scott was an enslaved African American man whose unsuccessful lawsuit for freedom led to the infamous 1857 Supreme Court decision denying citizenship and rights to Black people in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dred Scott
Target entity description: Dred Scott was an enslaved African American man whose unsuccessful lawsuit for freedom led to the infamous 1857 Supreme Court decision denying citizenship and rights to Black people in the United States.
  • A. Dred Scott v. Sandford
    Dred Scott v. Sandford was an 1857 U.S. Supreme Court decision that infamously denied citizenship and constitutional rights to African Americans and helped accelerate tensions leading to the Civil War.
  • B. Homer Plessy
    Homer Plessy was a mixed-race Louisiana shoemaker and civil rights activist best known for challenging racial segregation laws in the landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • C. Tapping Reeve
    Tapping Reeve was an American lawyer and jurist best known for founding the Litchfield Law School, the first formal law school in the United States.
  • D. Archibald Grimké
    Archibald Grimké was an African American lawyer, journalist, and civil rights leader of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who played a key role in the early struggle against racial discrimination in the United States.
  • E. James Dewitt Yancey
    James Dewitt Yancey, better known as J Dilla, was a highly influential American hip-hop producer and rapper renowned for his innovative, soulful, and off-kilter approach to beat-making.
  • 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_69a885fdcb9c819081ce6f0b8cd477dd completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a9092e46748190b27be7d1aba07dff completed March 5, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad46a848ec819085c82be8eaea2044 completed March 8, 2026, 9:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad4841d278819085507528faeaae3e completed March 8, 2026, 9:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad48ff11d881909fd6e9e40d5f1f38 completed March 8, 2026, 10:01 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:27 p.m.