Triple

T4847102
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ossian Sweet trial E108316 entity
Predicate hasDefendant P2238 FINISHED
Object Charles Washington
Charles Washington was one of the African American defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in the landmark 1925 Detroit case involving racial violence and self-defense.
E474391 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: Charles Washington | Statement: [Ossian Sweet trial, hasDefendant, Charles Washington]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Washington
Context triple: [Ossian Sweet trial, hasDefendant, Charles Washington]
  • A. Charles Washington
    Charles Washington was an American planter and the youngest brother of George Washington, known for founding the town that became Charles Town, West Virginia.
  • B. Lucius Washington
    Lucius Washington is a supporting character in the comedy film "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," serving as a loyal and level-headed member of Ricky Bobby’s NASCAR team.
  • C. John Parke Custis
    John Parke Custis was the son of Martha Washington and stepson of George Washington, known primarily as a member of the prominent Custis-Washington family in colonial Virginia.
  • D. Lawrence Washington
    Lawrence Washington was a colonial Virginia planter, soldier, and the elder half-brother of George Washington, whose military service and connections helped shape George’s early ambitions.
  • E. George Washington Parke Custis
    George Washington Parke Custis was an American plantation owner, writer, and orator best known as the step-grandson of George and Martha Washington and the builder of Arlington House, later Arlington National Cemetery.
  • 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: Charles Washington
Triple: [Ossian Sweet trial, hasDefendant, Charles Washington]
Generated description
Charles Washington was one of the African American defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in the landmark 1925 Detroit case involving racial violence and self-defense.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Washington
Target entity description: Charles Washington was one of the African American defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in the landmark 1925 Detroit case involving racial violence and self-defense.
  • A. Charles Washington
    Charles Washington was an American planter and the youngest brother of George Washington, known for founding the town that became Charles Town, West Virginia.
  • B. Lucius Washington
    Lucius Washington is a supporting character in the comedy film "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," serving as a loyal and level-headed member of Ricky Bobby’s NASCAR team.
  • C. John Parke Custis
    John Parke Custis was the son of Martha Washington and stepson of George Washington, known primarily as a member of the prominent Custis-Washington family in colonial Virginia.
  • D. Lawrence Washington
    Lawrence Washington was a colonial Virginia planter, soldier, and the elder half-brother of George Washington, whose military service and connections helped shape George’s early ambitions.
  • E. George Washington Parke Custis
    George Washington Parke Custis was an American plantation owner, writer, and orator best known as the step-grandson of George and Martha Washington and the builder of Arlington House, later Arlington National Cemetery.
  • 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_69bd4409b264819085ab855f3eb5381a completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6d1aefdc8190910b78615730f991 completed March 20, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be5cd6dbcc8190b802eeb6d74fd37d completed March 21, 2026, 8:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be5f154094819095e09e6a5627f7dc completed March 21, 2026, 9:04 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be5f78eb7881908707f54b899e8dda completed March 21, 2026, 9:06 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:25 p.m.