Triple
T7198913
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | United States Department of Justice investigations into the King assassination |
E168686
|
entity |
| Predicate | focusesOnPerson |
P31
|
FINISHED |
| Object | James Earl Ray |
E648690
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: James Earl Ray | Statement: [United States Department of Justice investigations into the King assassination, focusesOnPerson, James Earl Ray]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Earl Ray Context triple: [United States Department of Justice investigations into the King assassination, focusesOnPerson, James Earl Ray]
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A.
James Earl Ray
chosen
James Earl Ray was an American criminal best known for assassinating civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.
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B.
Jack Ruby
Jack Ruby was the Dallas nightclub owner who fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, on live television in 1963.
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C.
Munir Sirhan
Munir Sirhan is best known as the brother of Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
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D.
Jeral Wayne Williams
Jeral Wayne Williams, better known as Mutulu Shakur, was an American activist, acupuncturist, and Black Liberation Army member associated with Black liberation movements and the stepfather of rapper Tupac Shakur.
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E.
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald was a former U.S. Marine who is widely believed to have shot and killed President John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963, though his guilt has remained the subject of extensive controversy and conspiracy theories.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69c68a5376748190bb500f03df86e93e |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:46 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6e92b8bc08190bfcdd34ce42e3448 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 8:31 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c7cbecb7ec819080b12a63dfa56328 |
completed | March 28, 2026, 12:39 p.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:52 p.m.