Triple

T11257162
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Roper v. Simmons E266467 entity
Predicate petitioner P3132 FINISHED
Object Donald P. Roper
Donald P. Roper was the superintendent of a Missouri correctional facility who became the named state official in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Roper v. Simmons, which abolished the juvenile death penalty.
 E1238996 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: Donald P. Roper | Statement: [Roper v. Simmons, petitioner, Donald P. Roper]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Donald P. Roper
Context triple: [Roper v. Simmons, petitioner, Donald P. Roper]
  • A. Robert B. Weide
    Robert B. Weide is an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his work on the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and various documentaries about comedians.
  • B. James S. Voss
    James S. Voss is a retired U.S. Army officer and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent over five months aboard the International Space Station.
  • C. Ronald E. Yates
    Ronald E. Yates is an American author and former journalist known for his work as a foreign correspondent and as a professor and dean at the University of Illinois’ College of Media.
  • D. James A. Abrahamson
    James A. Abrahamson is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general and aerospace engineer best known for directing NASA’s Space Shuttle program and leading the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization in the 1980s.
  • E. Donald M. Dickinson
    Donald M. Dickinson was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Postmaster General under President Grover Cleveland in the late 19th century.
  • 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: Donald P. Roper
Triple: [Roper v. Simmons, petitioner, Donald P. Roper]
Generated description
Donald P. Roper was the superintendent of a Missouri correctional facility who became the named state official in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Roper v. Simmons, which abolished the juvenile death penalty.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Donald P. Roper
Target entity description: Donald P. Roper was the superintendent of a Missouri correctional facility who became the named state official in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Roper v. Simmons, which abolished the juvenile death penalty.
  • A. Robert B. Weide
    Robert B. Weide is an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his work on the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and various documentaries about comedians.
  • B. James S. Voss
    James S. Voss is a retired U.S. Army officer and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent over five months aboard the International Space Station.
  • C. Ronald E. Yates
    Ronald E. Yates is an American author and former journalist known for his work as a foreign correspondent and as a professor and dean at the University of Illinois’ College of Media.
  • D. James A. Abrahamson
    James A. Abrahamson is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general and aerospace engineer best known for directing NASA’s Space Shuttle program and leading the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization in the 1980s.
  • E. Donald M. Dickinson
    Donald M. Dickinson was an American lawyer and politician who served as U.S. Postmaster General under President Grover Cleveland in the late 19th century.
  • 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_69d6aac7953c8190b82caf9d7640fdf9 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e935b85c819085e1abf2dd4099c5 completed April 9, 2026, 6 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00c28d1e1c81909e869f01659ec233 completed May 10, 2026, 5:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00c457a1608190bd57155e91e55e9c completed May 10, 2026, 5:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00c5230fd481908cbc37e332b72380 completed May 10, 2026, 5:49 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:31 p.m.