Triple

T4847108
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ossian Sweet trial E108316 entity
Predicate hasDefendant P2238 FINISHED
Object John Smith
John Smith was one of the African American defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in the landmark 1925 Detroit case involving racial violence and self-defense.
E474394 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: John Smith | Statement: [Ossian Sweet trial, hasDefendant, John Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Smith
Context triple: [Ossian Sweet trial, hasDefendant, John Smith]
  • A. John
    John is the given name of the 19th-century British philosopher and political economist John Stuart Mill, a key figure in liberal thought and utilitarianism.
  • B. John
    John is the birth name of American actor Jack Lemmon, a celebrated star of classic films such as "Some Like It Hot" and "The Apartment."
  • C. John
    John C. Calhoun was a prominent 19th-century American statesman and political theorist who served as U.S. vice president, senator, and a leading proponent of states’ rights and slavery.
  • D. John
    John Alcock was a British aviator best known for making the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside Arthur Whitten Brown.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of Sir John Trevor, a historical British political figure.
  • 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: John Smith
Triple: [Ossian Sweet trial, hasDefendant, John Smith]
Generated description
John Smith 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: John Smith
Target entity description: John Smith 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. John Smith
    John Smith was an English soldier, explorer, and leader who played a pivotal role in the establishment and survival of the Jamestown colony in early colonial Virginia.
  • B. John Smith
    John Smith is a high-ranking Nazi official in the alternate-history television series "The Man in the High Castle," whose loyalty, ambition, and moral conflicts drive much of the show's central drama.
  • C. John Smith
    John Smith was a 19th-century British officer credited with bringing the Ajanta Caves to modern attention after rediscovering them in 1819.
  • D. John
    John is the birth name of American actor Jack Lemmon, a celebrated star of classic films such as "Some Like It Hot" and "The Apartment."
  • E. John
    John C. Calhoun was a prominent 19th-century American statesman and political theorist who served as U.S. vice president, senator, and a leading proponent of states’ rights and slavery.
  • 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.