Triple
T2005354
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Murder of Emmett Till |
E43567
|
entity |
| Predicate | perpetrator |
P698
|
FINISHED |
| Object | J. W. Milam |
E227140
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: J. W. Milam | Statement: [Murder of Emmett Till, perpetrator, J. W. Milam]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. W. Milam Context triple: [Murder of Emmett Till, perpetrator, J. W. Milam]
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A.
Floyd McKissick
Floyd McKissick was a prominent American civil rights attorney and activist who led the Congress of Racial Equality in the 1960s and later became a key advocate of Black economic empowerment and political participation.
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B.
John Hardin
John Hardin was an American frontiersman and soldier of the late 18th century, known for his role in early Kentucky and Ohio Valley conflicts and for whom Hardin County, Kentucky, is named.
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C.
Marcus Wright
Marcus Wright is a central human-cyborg hybrid character in the film "Terminator Salvation," whose mysterious past and conflicted nature drive much of the movie’s plot.
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D.
Roy Bryant
chosen
Roy Bryant was a Mississippi shopkeeper whose accusation against Emmett Till and subsequent acquittal in Till’s 1955 lynching made him a central figure in one of the most infamous racially motivated murders in American history.
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E.
Noble Johnson
Noble Johnson was an American character actor and pioneering African-American film producer known for his prolific work in early Hollywood cinema, including roles in classic adventure and horror films.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a88715dbbc8190b2299e29e955d997 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abb898795481909920c1a4c4d62c2d |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:33 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ae1fe068ac8190b0999e4f881d134a |
completed | March 9, 2026, 1:18 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:37 p.m.