Triple

T4452705
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tom Dooley E97649 entity
Predicate historicalEventLinked P2107 FINISHED
Object Trial of Tom Dula in 1868
The Trial of Tom Dula in 1868 was a widely publicized North Carolina murder case in which Confederate veteran Tom Dula was convicted and hanged, later inspiring the famous folk ballad "Tom Dooley."
E439740 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Trial of Tom Dula in 1868 | Statement: [Tom Dooley, historicalEventLinked, Trial of Tom Dula in 1868]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Trial of Tom Dula in 1868
Context triple: [Tom Dooley, historicalEventLinked, Trial of Tom Dula in 1868]
  • A. Trial of the Seventeen
    Trial of the Seventeen is a fantasy novel in the Spellmonger series by Terry Mancour, continuing the epic tale of mage Minalan and his allies as they confront escalating magical and political threats.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Leopold and Loeb murder trial
    The Leopold and Loeb murder trial was a 1924 American criminal case in which famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow argued against the death penalty for two wealthy University of Chicago students who had committed a highly publicized "thrill killing" of a young boy.
  • D. Ossian Sweet trial
    The Ossian Sweet trial was a landmark 1925 court case in Detroit in which Black physician Ossian Sweet and his family were defended against murder charges after violently resisting a white mob attacking their home, becoming a pivotal moment in the legal battle against racial segregation and housing discrimination in the United States.
  • E. Homma trial
    The Homma trial was a post–World War II U.S. military tribunal that prosecuted Japanese General Masaharu Homma for war crimes committed by his forces against American and Filipino prisoners in the Philippines.
  • 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: Trial of Tom Dula in 1868
Triple: [Tom Dooley, historicalEventLinked, Trial of Tom Dula in 1868]
Generated description
The Trial of Tom Dula in 1868 was a widely publicized North Carolina murder case in which Confederate veteran Tom Dula was convicted and hanged, later inspiring the famous folk ballad "Tom Dooley."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Trial of Tom Dula in 1868
Target entity description: The Trial of Tom Dula in 1868 was a widely publicized North Carolina murder case in which Confederate veteran Tom Dula was convicted and hanged, later inspiring the famous folk ballad "Tom Dooley."
  • A. Trial of the Seventeen
    Trial of the Seventeen is a fantasy novel in the Spellmonger series by Terry Mancour, continuing the epic tale of mage Minalan and his allies as they confront escalating magical and political threats.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Leopold and Loeb murder trial
    The Leopold and Loeb murder trial was a 1924 American criminal case in which famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow argued against the death penalty for two wealthy University of Chicago students who had committed a highly publicized "thrill killing" of a young boy.
  • D. Ossian Sweet trial
    The Ossian Sweet trial was a landmark 1925 court case in Detroit in which Black physician Ossian Sweet and his family were defended against murder charges after violently resisting a white mob attacking their home, becoming a pivotal moment in the legal battle against racial segregation and housing discrimination in the United States.
  • E. Homma trial
    The Homma trial was a post–World War II U.S. military tribunal that prosecuted Japanese General Masaharu Homma for war crimes committed by his forces against American and Filipino prisoners in the Philippines.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: historicalEventLinked
Context triple: [Tom Dooley, historicalEventLinked, Trial of Tom Dula in 1868]
  • A. hasHistoricalEvent chosen
    Indicates that a historical event occurred in, is associated with, or is relevant to a particular entity.
  • B. historicallyLinked
    Indicates that two entities are connected through a shared or related historical event, period, or development.
  • C. historicalFigureAssociated
    Indicates that there is a notable connection or linkage between an entity and a historical figure, such as influence, collaboration, representation, or involvement in the figure’s life or legacy.
  • D. historicalMovementAssociatedWith
    Indicates that there is an association between an entity and a historical movement, such as a social, political, cultural, or ideological current in history.
  • E. historicEventAlsoKnownAs
    Indicates that a historic event is referred to by an alternative name or alias.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69b3454777808190b78aa9047ba1f018 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b355f49dc081908727af81b886c08d completed March 13, 2026, 12:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b6138ea77881908381e9ea8ad2b7fe completed March 15, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b61465bb4081908a638a908c31c489 completed March 15, 2026, 2:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b6156db4a081909054f7db172315e9 completed March 15, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69b34f649df081909d3cc2f6a1b8f282 completed March 12, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:33 p.m.