Triple

T1446282
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act E31184 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Matthew Shepard
Matthew Shepard was a young gay American college student whose brutal 1998 murder in Wyoming became a symbol of anti-LGBTQ+ violence and led to significant hate crime legislation in the United States.
 E165732 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: Matthew Shepard | Statement: [Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, namedAfter, Matthew Shepard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Matthew Shepard
Context triple: [Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, namedAfter, Matthew Shepard]
  • A. Aaron Crow
    Aaron Crow is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball, primarily for the Kansas City Royals.
  • B. Christopher Wallace
    Christopher Wallace is an American journalist and television news anchor known for his incisive political interviews and long career at major U.S. networks.
  • C. John Holmes
    John Holmes was a famous American adult film actor of the 1970s and early 1980s, widely known for his prolific career and distinctive physical attributes.
  • D. Gabriel Harris
    Gabriel Harris is an American percussionist and musician best known for his work with his mother, folk singer and activist Joan Baez, as well as other world and folk music artists.
  • E. Michael Brown
    Michael Brown is a film and television editor known for his work on the biographical miniseries "Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows."
  • 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: Matthew Shepard
Triple: [Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, namedAfter, Matthew Shepard]
Generated description
Matthew Shepard was a young gay American college student whose brutal 1998 murder in Wyoming became a symbol of anti-LGBTQ+ violence and led to significant hate crime legislation in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Matthew Shepard
Target entity description: Matthew Shepard was a young gay American college student whose brutal 1998 murder in Wyoming became a symbol of anti-LGBTQ+ violence and led to significant hate crime legislation in the United States.
  • A. Aaron Crow
    Aaron Crow is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball, primarily for the Kansas City Royals.
  • B. Christopher Wallace
    Christopher Wallace is an American journalist and television news anchor known for his incisive political interviews and long career at major U.S. networks.
  • C. John Holmes
    John Holmes was a famous American adult film actor of the 1970s and early 1980s, widely known for his prolific career and distinctive physical attributes.
  • D. Gabriel Harris
    Gabriel Harris is an American percussionist and musician best known for his work with his mother, folk singer and activist Joan Baez, as well as other world and folk music artists.
  • E. Michael Brown
    Michael Brown is a film and television editor known for his work on the biographical miniseries "Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows."
  • 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_69a4991633388190a4d61b5a98aa407a completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c558e0e081909802753872374d7b completed March 1, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad08c046b08190a448ba2549dc5e00 completed March 8, 2026, 5:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad09ec3b388190b492e8959a3617c9 completed March 8, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad0aefb1c88190a368d68454a0b9d0 completed March 8, 2026, 5:36 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8 p.m.