Triple

T3360427
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tuskegee, Alabama E70707 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object Tuskegee syphilis study
The Tuskegee syphilis study was a notorious, decades-long U.S. Public Health Service experiment in which Black men with syphilis were misled and denied effective treatment, becoming a landmark example of unethical medical research.
E351984 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: Tuskegee syphilis study | Statement: [Tuskegee, Alabama, knownFor, Tuskegee syphilis study]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tuskegee syphilis study
Context triple: [Tuskegee, Alabama, knownFor, Tuskegee syphilis study]
  • A. Condon Report
    The Condon Report is a 1968 scientific study commissioned by the U.S. Air Force that concluded further systematic investigation of UFOs was unlikely to yield significant scientific discoveries.
  • B. Nuremberg Code
    The Nuremberg Code is a foundational set of ethical principles for human experimentation, emphasizing voluntary consent and the protection of research subjects, developed in response to Nazi medical atrocities after World War II.
  • C. Doctors' Trial
    The Doctors' Trial was a post–World War II Nuremberg military tribunal in which Nazi physicians and medical administrators were prosecuted for war crimes and crimes against humanity, particularly for inhumane medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners.
  • D. Willie Horton controversy
    The Willie Horton controversy was a highly charged political issue in the 1988 U.S. presidential campaign, centered on a convicted murderer who committed violent crimes while on furlough, and used in attack ads to portray Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis as soft on crime.
  • E. Shadrach Minkins case
    The Shadrach Minkins case was a landmark 1851 legal and political battle in Boston over the capture and rescue of an escaped enslaved man, which galvanized Northern resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act and intensified sectional tensions before the Civil War.
  • 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: Tuskegee syphilis study
Triple: [Tuskegee, Alabama, knownFor, Tuskegee syphilis study]
Generated description
The Tuskegee syphilis study was a notorious, decades-long U.S. Public Health Service experiment in which Black men with syphilis were misled and denied effective treatment, becoming a landmark example of unethical medical research.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tuskegee syphilis study
Target entity description: The Tuskegee syphilis study was a notorious, decades-long U.S. Public Health Service experiment in which Black men with syphilis were misled and denied effective treatment, becoming a landmark example of unethical medical research.
  • A. Condon Report
    The Condon Report is a 1968 scientific study commissioned by the U.S. Air Force that concluded further systematic investigation of UFOs was unlikely to yield significant scientific discoveries.
  • B. Nuremberg Code
    The Nuremberg Code is a foundational set of ethical principles for human experimentation, emphasizing voluntary consent and the protection of research subjects, developed in response to Nazi medical atrocities after World War II.
  • C. Doctors' Trial
    The Doctors' Trial was a post–World War II Nuremberg military tribunal in which Nazi physicians and medical administrators were prosecuted for war crimes and crimes against humanity, particularly for inhumane medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners.
  • D. Willie Horton controversy
    The Willie Horton controversy was a highly charged political issue in the 1988 U.S. presidential campaign, centered on a convicted murderer who committed violent crimes while on furlough, and used in attack ads to portray Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis as soft on crime.
  • E. Shadrach Minkins case
    The Shadrach Minkins case was a landmark 1851 legal and political battle in Boston over the capture and rescue of an escaped enslaved man, which galvanized Northern resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act and intensified sectional tensions before the Civil War.
  • 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_69ad85a660c48190998489309a3b4869 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb267ec1081909a4e3e227d5bad01 completed March 8, 2026, 5:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b32541ed808190aa7be7d0b7606426 completed March 12, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b3293d4b688190be472a5a3b56293b completed March 12, 2026, 8:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b32a49fed0819094ffd1e93a3757d0 completed March 12, 2026, 9:04 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:13 p.m.