Triple

T1446283
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 James Byrd Jr.
James Byrd Jr. was an African American man whose brutal 1998 racially motivated murder in Texas became a catalyst for strengthening U.S. hate crime legislation.
 E165733 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: James Byrd Jr. | Statement: [Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, namedAfter, James Byrd Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Byrd Jr.
Context triple: [Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, namedAfter, James Byrd Jr.]
  • A. Medgar Evers
    Medgar Evers was a prominent African American civil rights leader and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi whose assassination in 1963 made him a martyr of the struggle against racial segregation and injustice.
  • B. 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."
  • C. Ezell Blair Jr.
    Ezell Blair Jr. (later known as Jibreel Khazan) is a civil rights activist best known as one of the four African American college students who initiated the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina.
  • D. Homer Plessy
    Homer Plessy was a mixed-race Louisiana shoemaker and civil rights activist best known for challenging racial segregation laws in the landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • E. Ordell Robbie
    Ordell Robbie is a ruthless and manipulative gunrunner in Quentin Tarantino’s film "Jackie Brown," known for his charismatic yet menacing demeanor.
  • 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: James Byrd Jr.
Triple: [Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, namedAfter, James Byrd Jr.]
Generated description
James Byrd Jr. was an African American man whose brutal 1998 racially motivated murder in Texas became a catalyst for strengthening U.S. hate crime legislation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Byrd Jr.
Target entity description: James Byrd Jr. was an African American man whose brutal 1998 racially motivated murder in Texas became a catalyst for strengthening U.S. hate crime legislation.
  • A. Medgar Evers
    Medgar Evers was a prominent African American civil rights leader and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi whose assassination in 1963 made him a martyr of the struggle against racial segregation and injustice.
  • B. 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."
  • C. Ezell Blair Jr.
    Ezell Blair Jr. (later known as Jibreel Khazan) is a civil rights activist best known as one of the four African American college students who initiated the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina.
  • D. Homer Plessy
    Homer Plessy was a mixed-race Louisiana shoemaker and civil rights activist best known for challenging racial segregation laws in the landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • E. Ordell Robbie
    Ordell Robbie is a ruthless and manipulative gunrunner in Quentin Tarantino’s film "Jackie Brown," known for his charismatic yet menacing demeanor.
  • 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.