Triple

T1383782
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bull Connor E29797 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Theophilus
Theophilus was the first name of Bull Connor, the notorious Birmingham, Alabama public safety commissioner known for his brutal enforcement of racial segregation during the Civil Rights Movement.
E195844 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: Theophilus | Statement: [Bull Connor, givenName, Theophilus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theophilus
Context triple: [Bull Connor, givenName, Theophilus]
  • A. Theophilus
    Theophilus is the otherwise unknown individual addressed in the prefaces of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, likely a patron or symbolic “lover of God” to whom these New Testament works are dedicated.
  • B. Theophilus
    Theophilus was a prominent 6th-century Byzantine jurist and legal scholar who helped draft and interpret Emperor Justinian I’s codification of Roman law.
  • C. Numenius of Apamea
    Numenius of Apamea was a 2nd-century Platonist philosopher whose synthesis of Platonism with Pythagorean and Eastern religious ideas helped lay important groundwork for later Neoplatonism.
  • D. Pamphilus of Caesarea
    Pamphilus of Caesarea was a 3rd–4th century Christian presbyter and scholar renowned for his biblical scholarship, his defense of Origen, and his influential library at Caesarea.
  • E. Athenagoras of Athens
    Athenagoras of Athens was a 2nd-century Christian philosopher and apologist known for his sophisticated defenses of Christianity addressed to the Roman emperors.
  • 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: Theophilus
Triple: [Bull Connor, givenName, Theophilus]
Generated description
Theophilus was the first name of Bull Connor, the notorious Birmingham, Alabama public safety commissioner known for his brutal enforcement of racial segregation during the Civil Rights Movement.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theophilus
Target entity description: Theophilus was the first name of Bull Connor, the notorious Birmingham, Alabama public safety commissioner known for his brutal enforcement of racial segregation during the Civil Rights Movement.
  • A. Theophilus
    Theophilus is the otherwise unknown individual addressed in the prefaces of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, likely a patron or symbolic “lover of God” to whom these New Testament works are dedicated.
  • B. Theophilus
    Theophilus was a prominent 6th-century Byzantine jurist and legal scholar who helped draft and interpret Emperor Justinian I’s codification of Roman law.
  • C. Numenius of Apamea
    Numenius of Apamea was a 2nd-century Platonist philosopher whose synthesis of Platonism with Pythagorean and Eastern religious ideas helped lay important groundwork for later Neoplatonism.
  • D. Pamphilus of Caesarea
    Pamphilus of Caesarea was a 3rd–4th century Christian presbyter and scholar renowned for his biblical scholarship, his defense of Origen, and his influential library at Caesarea.
  • E. Athenagoras of Athens
    Athenagoras of Athens was a 2nd-century Christian philosopher and apologist known for his sophisticated defenses of Christianity addressed to the Roman emperors.
  • 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_69a498dc92f8819094a1108f8ac90f43 completed March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c3377b608190b915e6871c1fe86e completed March 1, 2026, 10:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ada0ba8f608190a5f1fcc5ebcee9e5 completed March 8, 2026, 4:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ada1a0510481908ed8c36c9ae9a1a0 completed March 8, 2026, 4:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ada26343988190bd067ca97186eb96 completed March 8, 2026, 4:22 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.