Triple

T84529
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thurgood Marshall E1700 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object John W. Marshall
John W. Marshall is an American lawyer and public official best known for serving as Virginia’s Secretary of Public Safety and as the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
E35499 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 W. Marshall | Statement: [Thurgood Marshall, child, John W. Marshall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John W. Marshall
Context triple: [Thurgood Marshall, child, John W. Marshall]
  • A. John Marshall
    John Marshall was the fourth Chief Justice of the United States, whose landmark opinions, especially in Marbury v. Madison, established the principle of judicial review and greatly strengthened the Supreme Court’s authority.
  • B. Paul G. Kirk
    Paul G. Kirk is an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as interim U.S. Senator from Massachusetts following the death of Edward M. Kennedy.
  • C. William H. Rehnquist
    William H. Rehnquist was a long-serving conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice and later Chief Justice, known for advocating federalism, limiting the reach of federal power, and opposing expansive interpretations of constitutional rights.
  • D. Lewis F. Powell Jr.
    Lewis F. Powell Jr. was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1972–1987) known as a pivotal moderate whose swing votes shaped landmark decisions on issues such as abortion, affirmative action, and the death penalty.
  • E. Byron R. White
    Byron R. White was a U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his generally moderate-to-conservative jurisprudence and influential opinions across criminal procedure, civil rights, and federalism.
  • 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 W. Marshall
Triple: [Thurgood Marshall, child, John W. Marshall]
Generated description
John W. Marshall is an American lawyer and public official best known for serving as Virginia’s Secretary of Public Safety and as the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John W. Marshall
Target entity description: John W. Marshall is an American lawyer and public official best known for serving as Virginia’s Secretary of Public Safety and as the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
  • A. John Marshall
    John Marshall was the fourth Chief Justice of the United States, whose landmark opinions, especially in Marbury v. Madison, established the principle of judicial review and greatly strengthened the Supreme Court’s authority.
  • B. Paul G. Kirk
    Paul G. Kirk is an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as interim U.S. Senator from Massachusetts following the death of Edward M. Kennedy.
  • C. William H. Rehnquist
    William H. Rehnquist was a long-serving conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice and later Chief Justice, known for advocating federalism, limiting the reach of federal power, and opposing expansive interpretations of constitutional rights.
  • D. Lewis F. Powell Jr.
    Lewis F. Powell Jr. was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1972–1987) known as a pivotal moderate whose swing votes shaped landmark decisions on issues such as abortion, affirmative action, and the death penalty.
  • E. Byron R. White
    Byron R. White was a U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his generally moderate-to-conservative jurisprudence and influential opinions across criminal procedure, civil rights, and federalism.
  • 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_69a24c8150408190910a693eb51c1f71 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24f4e73c081908d2da146226ef05e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a38f4ad71881909f914571472c15fa completed March 1, 2026, 12:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a38fa022b88190938ab9a65a85ad2a completed March 1, 2026, 1 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3901ce7f88190ab94662c43a6008b completed March 1, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:06 a.m.