Triple

T1194054
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Howard University School of Law E25626 entity
Predicate notableAlumnus P304 FINISHED
Object William Hastie
William Hastie was a pioneering African American jurist, civil rights advocate, and the first Black federal appellate judge in the United States.
E298337 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: William Hastie | Statement: [Howard University School of Law, notableAlumnus, William Hastie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Hastie
Context triple: [Howard University School of Law, notableAlumnus, William Hastie]
  • A. Hugo L. Black
    Hugo L. Black was a long-serving U.S. Supreme Court justice known for his strong advocacy of civil liberties and broad interpretation of the Constitution, particularly the First Amendment.
  • B. Thurgood Marshall
    Thurgood Marshall was the first African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice and a pioneering civil rights lawyer who successfully argued Brown v. Board of Education, helping dismantle legal segregation in the United States.
  • C. Luther L. Terry
    Luther L. Terry was an American physician and U.S. Surgeon General best known for issuing the landmark 1964 report that publicly linked cigarette smoking to serious health risks and transformed public health policy on tobacco.
  • D. Justice Willis Van Devanter
    Justice Willis Van Devanter was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by President William Howard Taft, known for his conservative jurisprudence and frequent opposition to New Deal legislation.
  • E. James M. Landis
    James M. Landis was an influential American lawyer, legal scholar, and New Deal administrator who helped shape U.S. securities regulation and public administration in the mid-20th 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: William Hastie
Triple: [Howard University School of Law, notableAlumnus, William Hastie]
Generated description
William Hastie was a pioneering African American jurist, civil rights advocate, and the first Black federal appellate judge in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Hastie
Target entity description: William Hastie was a pioneering African American jurist, civil rights advocate, and the first Black federal appellate judge in the United States.
  • A. Hugo L. Black
    Hugo L. Black was a long-serving U.S. Supreme Court justice known for his strong advocacy of civil liberties and broad interpretation of the Constitution, particularly the First Amendment.
  • B. Thurgood Marshall
    Thurgood Marshall was the first African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice and a pioneering civil rights lawyer who successfully argued Brown v. Board of Education, helping dismantle legal segregation in the United States.
  • C. Luther L. Terry
    Luther L. Terry was an American physician and U.S. Surgeon General best known for issuing the landmark 1964 report that publicly linked cigarette smoking to serious health risks and transformed public health policy on tobacco.
  • D. Justice Willis Van Devanter
    Justice Willis Van Devanter was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by President William Howard Taft, known for his conservative jurisprudence and frequent opposition to New Deal legislation.
  • E. James M. Landis
    James M. Landis was an influential American lawyer, legal scholar, and New Deal administrator who helped shape U.S. securities regulation and public administration in the mid-20th 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_69a49429f5ec8190a6a205eb0ae81e5e completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bd7743548190a70d3f3c7378aaa7 completed March 1, 2026, 10:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afc616800c819090f6fcddb6930060 completed March 10, 2026, 7:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afc686bd908190ba3f865576c40d46 completed March 10, 2026, 7:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afc6e92f0481908211fea3a6d4e05b completed March 10, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:46 p.m.