Triple
T1471339
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | United States House Select Committee on Assassinations |
E27140
|
entity |
| Predicate | concludedThat |
P16516
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
James Earl Ray fired the shot that killed Martin Luther King Jr.
The United States House Select Committee on Assassinations was a congressional body established in the late 1970s to reinvestigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
|
E168685
|
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 Earl Ray fired the shot that killed Martin Luther King Jr. | Statement: [United States House Select Committee on Assassinations, concludedThat, James Earl Ray fired the shot that killed Martin Luther King Jr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Earl Ray fired the shot that killed Martin Luther King Jr. Context triple: [United States House Select Committee on Assassinations, concludedThat, James Earl Ray fired the shot that killed Martin Luther King Jr.]
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A.
Jack Ruby
Jack Ruby was the Dallas nightclub owner who fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, on live television in 1963.
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B.
Munir Sirhan
Munir Sirhan is best known as the brother of Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
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C.
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald was a former U.S. Marine who is widely believed to have shot and killed President John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963, though his guilt has remained the subject of extensive controversy and conspiracy theories.
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D.
Killing of Lee Harvey Oswald
The Killing of Lee Harvey Oswald was the fatal shooting of President John F. Kennedy’s accused assassin by nightclub owner Jack Ruby while Oswald was in police custody, an event that fueled widespread controversy and conspiracy theories.
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E.
Sirhan Sirhan
Sirhan Sirhan is a Palestinian immigrant who became infamous for assassinating U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles in 1968.
- 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 Earl Ray fired the shot that killed Martin Luther King Jr. Triple: [United States House Select Committee on Assassinations, concludedThat, James Earl Ray fired the shot that killed Martin Luther King Jr.]
Generated description
The United States House Select Committee on Assassinations was a congressional body established in the late 1970s to reinvestigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Earl Ray fired the shot that killed Martin Luther King Jr. Target entity description: The United States House Select Committee on Assassinations was a congressional body established in the late 1970s to reinvestigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
-
A.
Jack Ruby
Jack Ruby was the Dallas nightclub owner who fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, on live television in 1963.
-
B.
Munir Sirhan
Munir Sirhan is best known as the brother of Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
-
C.
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald was a former U.S. Marine who is widely believed to have shot and killed President John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963, though his guilt has remained the subject of extensive controversy and conspiracy theories.
-
D.
Killing of Lee Harvey Oswald
The Killing of Lee Harvey Oswald was the fatal shooting of President John F. Kennedy’s accused assassin by nightclub owner Jack Ruby while Oswald was in police custody, an event that fueled widespread controversy and conspiracy theories.
-
E.
Sirhan Sirhan
Sirhan Sirhan is a Palestinian immigrant who became infamous for assassinating U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles in 1968.
- 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_69a496d25d6881909dbd84f86d763992 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4c5db55948190ae5262a70a161b87 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 11:03 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ad15a74fbc8190b53511713032dc63 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 6:22 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ad162d7d08819085108fa5bb33f40f |
completed | March 8, 2026, 6:24 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ad16a5c76c8190a0bb3ccf5557b1b0 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 6:26 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:01 p.m.