Triple
T7112274
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | James Byrd Jr. |
E165733
|
entity |
| Predicate | event |
P1664
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Murder of James Byrd Jr.
The Murder of James Byrd Jr. was a 1998 racially motivated hate crime in Jasper, Texas, in which an African American man was brutally killed by being chained to a pickup truck and dragged along a road, becoming a pivotal case in U.S. hate-crime legislation.
|
E641698
|
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: Murder of James Byrd Jr. | Statement: [James Byrd Jr., event, Murder of James Byrd Jr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Murder of James Byrd Jr. Context triple: [James Byrd Jr., event, Murder of James Byrd Jr.]
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A.
Jackson State killings
The Jackson State killings were a 1970 incident in which police opened fire on students at Jackson State College in Mississippi during anti–Vietnam War and civil rights protests, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries.
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B.
Bama massacre
The Bama massacre was a deadly attack in 2014 by Boko Haram on the town of Bama in Borno State, Nigeria, in which hundreds of civilians were killed and widespread destruction occurred.
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C.
Murder of Emmett Till
The Murder of Emmett Till was the 1955 lynching of a Black teenager in Mississippi that became a catalyst for the modern American civil rights movement.
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D.
McCleskey v. Kemp
McCleskey v. Kemp is a landmark 1987 U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court rejected a constitutional challenge to the death penalty based on statistical evidence of racial disparities in its application.
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E.
Ellenton massacre
The Ellenton massacre was an 1876 episode of racial and political violence in South Carolina in which white supremacist paramilitaries attacked and killed numerous Black residents to suppress their civil and voting rights during Reconstruction.
- 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: Murder of James Byrd Jr. Triple: [James Byrd Jr., event, Murder of James Byrd Jr.]
Generated description
The Murder of James Byrd Jr. was a 1998 racially motivated hate crime in Jasper, Texas, in which an African American man was brutally killed by being chained to a pickup truck and dragged along a road, becoming a pivotal case in U.S. hate-crime legislation.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Murder of James Byrd Jr. Target entity description: The Murder of James Byrd Jr. was a 1998 racially motivated hate crime in Jasper, Texas, in which an African American man was brutally killed by being chained to a pickup truck and dragged along a road, becoming a pivotal case in U.S. hate-crime legislation.
-
A.
Jackson State killings
The Jackson State killings were a 1970 incident in which police opened fire on students at Jackson State College in Mississippi during anti–Vietnam War and civil rights protests, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries.
-
B.
Bama massacre
The Bama massacre was a deadly attack in 2014 by Boko Haram on the town of Bama in Borno State, Nigeria, in which hundreds of civilians were killed and widespread destruction occurred.
-
C.
Murder of Emmett Till
The Murder of Emmett Till was the 1955 lynching of a Black teenager in Mississippi that became a catalyst for the modern American civil rights movement.
-
D.
McCleskey v. Kemp
McCleskey v. Kemp is a landmark 1987 U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court rejected a constitutional challenge to the death penalty based on statistical evidence of racial disparities in its application.
-
E.
Ellenton massacre
The Ellenton massacre was an 1876 episode of racial and political violence in South Carolina in which white supremacist paramilitaries attacked and killed numerous Black residents to suppress their civil and voting rights during Reconstruction.
- 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_69c6888120f081908f8f01b201dc4a4c |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6e5edf89c8190a069b35ff7768165 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 8:17 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c79cbc35d48190974e207eb98dcbe3 |
completed | March 28, 2026, 9:17 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c79d31a9e8819096e6a3040b1852a9 |
completed | March 28, 2026, 9:19 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c79dc7d7d8819097e423ef70b03040 |
completed | March 28, 2026, 9:22 a.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:43 p.m.