Triple

T16200276
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sister Helen Prejean E393179 entity
Predicate wrote P2831 FINISHED
Object Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States is a nonfiction book that chronicles a Catholic nun’s experiences counseling death row inmates while powerfully critiquing capital punishment in America.
E243984 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: Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States | Statement: [Sister Helen Prejean, wrote, Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
Context triple: [Sister Helen Prejean, wrote, Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States]
  • A. The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
    The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions is a nonfiction book by Sister Helen Prejean that examines capital punishment in the United States through detailed case studies of men she believes were wrongfully executed.
  • B. The Man They Could Not Hang
    The Man They Could Not Hang is a 1934 Australian film directed by Raymond Longford, dramatizing the true story of John Babbacombe Lee, a man who survived multiple failed execution attempts.
  • C. Dead Man Walking
    Dead Man Walking is a 1995 American drama film about a death row inmate and a nun who becomes his spiritual advisor, noted for its powerful performances and exploration of capital punishment and redemption.
  • D. Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition
    Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition is a scholarly book that analyzes the persistence and distinctive character of capital punishment in the United States despite a global trend toward its abolition.
  • E. An Innocent Man
    An Innocent Man is a 1983 pop-rock album by Billy Joel that nostalgically pays tribute to the music styles of the late 1950s and early 1960s and includes hits like "Uptown Girl" and "The Longest Time."
  • 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: Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
Triple: [Sister Helen Prejean, wrote, Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States]
Generated description
Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States is a nonfiction book that chronicles a Catholic nun’s experiences counseling death row inmates while powerfully critiquing capital punishment in America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
Target entity description: Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States is a nonfiction book that chronicles a Catholic nun’s experiences counseling death row inmates while powerfully critiquing capital punishment in America.
  • A. The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
    The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions is a nonfiction book by Sister Helen Prejean that examines capital punishment in the United States through detailed case studies of men she believes were wrongfully executed.
  • B. The Man They Could Not Hang
    The Man They Could Not Hang is a 1934 Australian film directed by Raymond Longford, dramatizing the true story of John Babbacombe Lee, a man who survived multiple failed execution attempts.
  • C. Dead Man Walking chosen
    Dead Man Walking is a 1995 American drama film about a death row inmate and a nun who becomes his spiritual advisor, noted for its powerful performances and exploration of capital punishment and redemption.
  • D. Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition
    Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition is a scholarly book that analyzes the persistence and distinctive character of capital punishment in the United States despite a global trend toward its abolition.
  • E. An Innocent Man
    An Innocent Man is a 1983 pop-rock album by Billy Joel that nostalgically pays tribute to the music styles of the late 1950s and early 1960s and includes hits like "Uptown Girl" and "The Longest Time."
  • F. None of above.

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_69d87f1f5bd08190bd01cac0d5b9d2ef completed April 10, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e22709b0d88190b40787e0520d02ab completed April 17, 2026, 12:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00078db04081909f7e14b09687ba67 completed May 10, 2026, 4:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00085d47788190b00967f4d1cf817d completed May 10, 2026, 4:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0008dbeb988190bbfb590f945ace02 completed May 10, 2026, 4:26 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:03 a.m.