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]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.