Triple
T15156578
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Nixon v. Herndon |
E362095
|
entity |
| Predicate | plaintiff |
P660
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon
Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon was an African American physician and civil rights activist in Texas whose legal challenges to racially discriminatory primary elections helped lay groundwork for dismantling Jim Crow voting restrictions.
|
E1162675
|
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: Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon | Statement: [Nixon v. Herndon, plaintiff, Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon Context triple: [Nixon v. Herndon, plaintiff, Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon]
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A.
Dr. Richard E. Banks
Dr. Richard E. Banks was a 19th-century physician after whom Banks County, Georgia, was named in recognition of his regional prominence and service.
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B.
Dr. Robert B. Hayling
Dr. Robert B. Hayling was a prominent civil rights leader and dentist who played a key role in organizing and leading nonviolent protests against racial segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, during the early 1960s.
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C.
Reginald V. Shepherd
Reginald V. Shepherd was a British firearms designer best known for co-developing the World War II–era Sten submachine gun.
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D.
Dr. Richard Walker
Dr. Richard Walker is the American physician protagonist of the 1988 thriller film "Frantic," portrayed by Harrison Ford as a man desperately searching for his missing wife in Paris.
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E.
Dr. Peter Leavitt
Dr. Peter Leavitt is a key scientist in Michael Crichton’s science fiction novel "The Andromeda Strain," involved in the high-stakes investigation of a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism.
- 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: Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon Triple: [Nixon v. Herndon, plaintiff, Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon]
Generated description
Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon was an African American physician and civil rights activist in Texas whose legal challenges to racially discriminatory primary elections helped lay groundwork for dismantling Jim Crow voting restrictions.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon Target entity description: Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon was an African American physician and civil rights activist in Texas whose legal challenges to racially discriminatory primary elections helped lay groundwork for dismantling Jim Crow voting restrictions.
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A.
Dr. Richard E. Banks
Dr. Richard E. Banks was a 19th-century physician after whom Banks County, Georgia, was named in recognition of his regional prominence and service.
-
B.
Dr. Robert B. Hayling
Dr. Robert B. Hayling was a prominent civil rights leader and dentist who played a key role in organizing and leading nonviolent protests against racial segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, during the early 1960s.
-
C.
Reginald V. Shepherd
Reginald V. Shepherd was a British firearms designer best known for co-developing the World War II–era Sten submachine gun.
-
D.
Dr. Richard Walker
Dr. Richard Walker is the American physician protagonist of the 1988 thriller film "Frantic," portrayed by Harrison Ford as a man desperately searching for his missing wife in Paris.
-
E.
Dr. Peter Leavitt
Dr. Peter Leavitt is a key scientist in Michael Crichton’s science fiction novel "The Andromeda Strain," involved in the high-stakes investigation of a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism.
- 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_69d85a0759908190b8a051d2e2a1cbe6 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e0060c62b08190bcdbd912d011d1ba |
completed | April 15, 2026, 9:41 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ff3d3b3fc0819094daf892200bd1ac |
completed | May 9, 2026, 1:57 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ff40fa8b8c8190b75987e897a20cf5 |
completed | May 9, 2026, 2:13 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ff4158866c819087240d56e613f75c |
completed | May 9, 2026, 2:14 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:08 a.m.