Triple
T4288393
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Alexandra |
E97326
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasHistoricalEvent |
P2107
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Alexandra bus boycott of 1957
The Alexandra bus boycott of 1957 was a major anti-apartheid protest in South Africa in which Black residents of Alexandra township refused to use buses to oppose fare increases and racial discrimination.
|
E428120
|
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: Alexandra bus boycott of 1957 | Statement: [Alexandra, hasHistoricalEvent, Alexandra bus boycott of 1957]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexandra bus boycott of 1957 Context triple: [Alexandra, hasHistoricalEvent, Alexandra bus boycott of 1957]
-
A.
Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a pivotal 1955–1956 civil rights protest in Alabama in which African Americans refused to ride city buses to challenge racial segregation, helping launch the modern Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King Jr.’s national leadership.
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B.
Freedom Rides
The Freedom Rides were a series of nonviolent protests in 1961 in which interracial groups rode interstate buses into the segregated U.S. South to challenge and draw attention to the failure to enforce desegregation laws.
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C.
Rosa Parks Bus
The Rosa Parks Bus is the restored Montgomery city bus on which civil rights icon Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in 1955, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott and becoming a powerful symbol of the American civil rights movement.
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D.
Nashville sit-ins
The Nashville sit-ins were a series of nonviolent student-led protests in 1960 that successfully desegregated lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee and became a key early campaign of the U.S. civil rights movement.
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E.
Birmingham campaign
The Birmingham campaign was a pivotal 1963 civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama, marked by nonviolent protests against racial segregation that drew national attention and helped spur major civil rights legislation.
- 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: Alexandra bus boycott of 1957 Triple: [Alexandra, hasHistoricalEvent, Alexandra bus boycott of 1957]
Generated description
The Alexandra bus boycott of 1957 was a major anti-apartheid protest in South Africa in which Black residents of Alexandra township refused to use buses to oppose fare increases and racial discrimination.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexandra bus boycott of 1957 Target entity description: The Alexandra bus boycott of 1957 was a major anti-apartheid protest in South Africa in which Black residents of Alexandra township refused to use buses to oppose fare increases and racial discrimination.
-
A.
Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a pivotal 1955–1956 civil rights protest in Alabama in which African Americans refused to ride city buses to challenge racial segregation, helping launch the modern Civil Rights Movement and Martin Luther King Jr.’s national leadership.
-
B.
Freedom Rides
The Freedom Rides were a series of nonviolent protests in 1961 in which interracial groups rode interstate buses into the segregated U.S. South to challenge and draw attention to the failure to enforce desegregation laws.
-
C.
Rosa Parks Bus
The Rosa Parks Bus is the restored Montgomery city bus on which civil rights icon Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in 1955, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott and becoming a powerful symbol of the American civil rights movement.
-
D.
Nashville sit-ins
The Nashville sit-ins were a series of nonviolent student-led protests in 1960 that successfully desegregated lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee and became a key early campaign of the U.S. civil rights movement.
-
E.
Birmingham campaign
The Birmingham campaign was a pivotal 1963 civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama, marked by nonviolent protests against racial segregation that drew national attention and helped spur major civil rights legislation.
- 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_69b3454595848190a0e6bbb6a2bea040 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69b35060b70081908479c95b2afe8ec5 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 11:46 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b5c72bec388190b03048507e2e6858 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 8:38 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b5c7ab41fc81909813233bd729e989 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 8:40 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b5c81d6e188190a1f0f21a990943d0 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 8:42 p.m. |
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:08 p.m.