Triple

T3890973
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nashville sit-ins E88059 entity
Predicate keyFigure P256 FINISHED
Object Z. Alexander Looby
Z. Alexander Looby was a prominent civil rights attorney and Nashville city councilman who played a leading legal and political role in challenging racial segregation in Tennessee.
E405436 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: Z. Alexander Looby | Statement: [Nashville sit-ins, keyFigure, Z. Alexander Looby]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Z. Alexander Looby
Context triple: [Nashville sit-ins, keyFigure, Z. Alexander Looby]
  • A. Allen M. Davey
    Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
  • B. Joel J. Richard
    Joel J. Richard is a film composer best known for co-scoring high-octane action movies, including entries in the John Wick franchise.
  • C. Ralph B. Lloyd
    Ralph B. Lloyd was an American oilman and real estate developer whose investments and land holdings played a major role in shaping urban districts in the western United States.
  • D. Ellsworth Hoagland
    Ellsworth Hoagland was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Fred M. Wilcox
    Fred M. Wilcox was an American film director best known for the science fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and the family film "Lassie Come Home."
  • 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: Z. Alexander Looby
Triple: [Nashville sit-ins, keyFigure, Z. Alexander Looby]
Generated description
Z. Alexander Looby was a prominent civil rights attorney and Nashville city councilman who played a leading legal and political role in challenging racial segregation in Tennessee.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Z. Alexander Looby
Target entity description: Z. Alexander Looby was a prominent civil rights attorney and Nashville city councilman who played a leading legal and political role in challenging racial segregation in Tennessee.
  • A. Allen M. Davey
    Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
  • B. Joel J. Richard
    Joel J. Richard is a film composer best known for co-scoring high-octane action movies, including entries in the John Wick franchise.
  • C. Ralph B. Lloyd
    Ralph B. Lloyd was an American oilman and real estate developer whose investments and land holdings played a major role in shaping urban districts in the western United States.
  • D. Ellsworth Hoagland
    Ellsworth Hoagland was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Fred M. Wilcox
    Fred M. Wilcox was an American film director best known for the science fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and the family film "Lassie Come Home."
  • 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_69aed9466d548190939f5217a23ed4ac completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeecb0ba448190aa076865b7762002 completed March 9, 2026, 3:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b54c3151e8819082d72756875a9b1d completed March 14, 2026, 11:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b54ce136c08190bfb049783e171cd0 completed March 14, 2026, 11:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b54d52732c8190b746ab0862976432 completed March 14, 2026, 11:58 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:21 p.m.