Triple

T241396
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Civil Rights Division E4938 entity
Predicate legalAuthority P125 FINISHED
Object Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is a U.S. federal law that expands hate crime protections to include crimes motivated by a victim’s actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability and strengthens federal enforcement of such offenses.
E31184 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: Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act | Statement: [Civil Rights Division, legalAuthority, Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
Context triple: [Civil Rights Division, legalAuthority, Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act]
  • A. Religious Freedom Restoration Act
    The Religious Freedom Restoration Act is a 1993 U.S. federal law that aims to protect individuals’ religious practices from substantial government burdens unless justified by a compelling governmental interest pursued through the least restrictive means.
  • B. Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act
    The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act is a U.S. federal law that protects individuals, religious institutions, and prisoners from government actions that substantially burden their religious exercise, particularly in land use and institutional settings.
  • C. DeBoer v. Snyder
    DeBoer v. Snyder was a federal court case challenging Michigan’s same-sex marriage ban that became one of the key cases consolidated into the landmark Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
  • D. Shelby County v. Holder
    Shelby County v. Holder is a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court decision that significantly weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by striking down the formula used to determine which jurisdictions required federal preclearance for changes to their voting laws.
  • E. Loving v. Virginia
    Loving v. Virginia is a landmark 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down state laws banning interracial marriage, affirming marriage as a fundamental right under the Fourteenth Amendment.
  • 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: Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
Triple: [Civil Rights Division, legalAuthority, Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act]
Generated description
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is a U.S. federal law that expands hate crime protections to include crimes motivated by a victim’s actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability and strengthens federal enforcement of such offenses.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
Target entity description: The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is a U.S. federal law that expands hate crime protections to include crimes motivated by a victim’s actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability and strengthens federal enforcement of such offenses.
  • A. Religious Freedom Restoration Act
    The Religious Freedom Restoration Act is a 1993 U.S. federal law that aims to protect individuals’ religious practices from substantial government burdens unless justified by a compelling governmental interest pursued through the least restrictive means.
  • B. Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act
    The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act is a U.S. federal law that protects individuals, religious institutions, and prisoners from government actions that substantially burden their religious exercise, particularly in land use and institutional settings.
  • C. DeBoer v. Snyder
    DeBoer v. Snyder was a federal court case challenging Michigan’s same-sex marriage ban that became one of the key cases consolidated into the landmark Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
  • D. Shelby County v. Holder
    Shelby County v. Holder is a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court decision that significantly weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by striking down the formula used to determine which jurisdictions required federal preclearance for changes to their voting laws.
  • E. Loving v. Virginia
    Loving v. Virginia is a landmark 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down state laws banning interracial marriage, affirming marriage as a fundamental right under the Fourteenth Amendment.
  • 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_69a257c3d0708190b0871c4269d273e6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25cece92481908b8125badc7c2b1e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a36960563881908ef098239cd87291 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a369d3b3448190bcf799ec9f4f8f76 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a36a3215508190be525ec8625e9a9f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:53 a.m.