Triple

T12438648
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Oscar Grant E297212 entity
Predicate killedBy P4646 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.
E983969 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]
  • 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."
  • 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.
  • 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."
  • 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.