Triple

T1194056
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Howard University School of Law E25626 entity
Predicate notableAlumnus P304 FINISHED
Object Charles Hamilton Houston
Charles Hamilton Houston was a pioneering African American lawyer and civil rights strategist whose legal work laid the groundwork for the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
 E145987 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: Charles Hamilton Houston | Statement: [Howard University School of Law, notableAlumnus, Charles Hamilton Houston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Charles Hamilton Houston
Context triple: [Howard University School of Law, notableAlumnus, Charles Hamilton Houston]
  • A. Thurgood Marshall Jr.
    Thurgood Marshall Jr. is an American lawyer and former White House Cabinet Secretary who is the son of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
  • 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. Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
    Vernon E. Jordan Jr. was a prominent American civil rights leader, lawyer, and presidential adviser who played a key role in advancing racial equality and economic opportunity in the late 20th century.
  • D. Josiah E. DuBois Jr.
    Josiah E. DuBois Jr. was a U.S. Treasury Department lawyer and key Holocaust whistleblower whose efforts helped expose government inaction and led to the rescue of tens of thousands of Jews during World War II.
  • E. Robert L. Carter
    Robert L. Carter was a prominent American civil rights attorney and later federal judge who played a key role in the NAACP’s legal campaign against school segregation, including work on the cases that led to Brown v. Board of Education.
  • 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: Charles Hamilton Houston
Triple: [Howard University School of Law, notableAlumnus, Charles Hamilton Houston]
Generated description
Charles Hamilton Houston was a pioneering African American lawyer and civil rights strategist whose legal work laid the groundwork for the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Charles Hamilton Houston
Target entity description: Charles Hamilton Houston was a pioneering African American lawyer and civil rights strategist whose legal work laid the groundwork for the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
  • A. Thurgood Marshall Jr.
    Thurgood Marshall Jr. is an American lawyer and former White House Cabinet Secretary who is the son of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
  • 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. Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
    Vernon E. Jordan Jr. was a prominent American civil rights leader, lawyer, and presidential adviser who played a key role in advancing racial equality and economic opportunity in the late 20th century.
  • D. Josiah E. DuBois Jr.
    Josiah E. DuBois Jr. was a U.S. Treasury Department lawyer and key Holocaust whistleblower whose efforts helped expose government inaction and led to the rescue of tens of thousands of Jews during World War II.
  • E. Robert L. Carter
    Robert L. Carter was a prominent American civil rights attorney and later federal judge who played a key role in the NAACP’s legal campaign against school segregation, including work on the cases that led to Brown v. Board of Education.
  • 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_69aca2e7d28c8190acf5ae2237e6d4e0 completed March 7, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aca3752a3c81908bd6d9744ad5f5a2 completed March 7, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aca3e44bf481908c5726adddc4b428 completed March 7, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:46 p.m.