Triple
T12438648
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Oscar Grant |
E297212
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entity |
| Predicate | killedBy |
P4646
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FINISHED |
| Object |
Johannes Mehserle
Johannes Mehserle is a former Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer known for fatally shooting unarmed passenger Oscar Grant at an Oakland train station on New Year’s Day 2009, an incident that sparked widespread protests and national attention.
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E983969
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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: Johannes Mehserle | Statement: [Oscar Grant, killedBy, Johannes Mehserle]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Johannes Mehserle Context triple: [Oscar Grant, killedBy, Johannes Mehserle]
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A.
Travon Potts
Travon Potts is an American songwriter and producer known for his work in R&B and pop music, contributing to songs for artists such as Monica and Christina Aguilera.
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B.
Duane Martin
Duane Martin is an American actor and former basketball player best known for his roles in 1990s films and television series, often portraying charismatic, athletic characters.
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C.
Oscar Grant
Oscar Grant was a young African American man whose 2009 killing by a transit police officer in Oakland, California, became a high-profile case highlighting issues of police brutality and racial injustice.
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D.
Michael Brown
Michael Brown is an American actor better known professionally as Michael Ealy, recognized for his roles in films like "Barbershop" and "Think Like a Man" and the TV series "Almost Human."
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E.
Michael Brown
Michael Brown is an American songwriter and keyboardist best known as a founding member of the baroque pop band The Left Banke and writer of several of its hit songs.
- 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: Johannes Mehserle Triple: [Oscar Grant, killedBy, Johannes Mehserle]
Generated description
Johannes Mehserle is a former Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer known for fatally shooting unarmed passenger Oscar Grant at an Oakland train station on New Year’s Day 2009, an incident that sparked widespread protests and national attention.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Johannes Mehserle Target entity description: Johannes Mehserle is a former Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer known for fatally shooting unarmed passenger Oscar Grant at an Oakland train station on New Year’s Day 2009, an incident that sparked widespread protests and national attention.
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A.
Travon Potts
Travon Potts is an American songwriter and producer known for his work in R&B and pop music, contributing to songs for artists such as Monica and Christina Aguilera.
-
B.
Duane Martin
Duane Martin is an American actor and former basketball player best known for his roles in 1990s films and television series, often portraying charismatic, athletic characters.
-
C.
Oscar Grant
Oscar Grant was a young African American man whose 2009 killing by a transit police officer in Oakland, California, became a high-profile case highlighting issues of police brutality and racial injustice.
-
D.
Michael Brown
Michael Brown is an American actor better known professionally as Michael Ealy, recognized for his roles in films like "Barbershop" and "Think Like a Man" and the TV series "Almost Human."
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E.
Michael Brown
Michael Brown is an American songwriter and keyboardist best known as a founding member of the baroque pop band The Left Banke and writer of several of its hit songs.
- 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_69d6ada166c48190b902972cd2408fa3 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d94d8dc0f881908a3da736d8947ce1 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 7:20 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f63f0911a08190ba84a20950762e68 |
completed | May 2, 2026, 6:14 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69f640ef7dd08190bf78d04cffac1a44 |
completed | May 2, 2026, 6:22 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69f641abe114819093d99a327f2220c2 |
completed | May 2, 2026, 6:25 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:55 p.m.