Triple

T16115475
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. E390990 entity
Predicate plaintiff P660 FINISHED
Object Esther Kiobel
Esther Kiobel is a Nigerian human rights activist best known for leading a landmark U.S. lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell over alleged complicity in abuses by Nigeria’s military regime.
E1194051 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: Esther Kiobel | Statement: [Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., plaintiff, Esther Kiobel]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Esther Kiobel
Context triple: [Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., plaintiff, Esther Kiobel]
  • A. Esther Hornstein
    Esther Hornstein is a film producer known for her work on the 2022 movie "The Contractor."
  • B. Ellen Wright
    Ellen Wright is an individual also known by the name Ellen Poplar, likely recognized in contexts where this alternate name is used.
  • C. Venida Browder
    Venida Browder was the mother of Kalief Browder and a prominent advocate for criminal justice reform whose family’s ordeal drew national attention to the harms of pretrial detention and the bail system in the United States.
  • D. Judith Kaye
    Judith Kaye was a pioneering American jurist who became the first woman and longest-serving Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.
  • E. Rebekah Neumann
    Rebekah Neumann is an American entrepreneur and former chief brand and impact officer of WeWork, known for co-founding the WeGrow education initiative and for her influential role in the company’s culture and vision.
  • 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: Esther Kiobel
Triple: [Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., plaintiff, Esther Kiobel]
Generated description
Esther Kiobel is a Nigerian human rights activist best known for leading a landmark U.S. lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell over alleged complicity in abuses by Nigeria’s military regime.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Esther Kiobel
Target entity description: Esther Kiobel is a Nigerian human rights activist best known for leading a landmark U.S. lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell over alleged complicity in abuses by Nigeria’s military regime.
  • A. Esther Hornstein
    Esther Hornstein is a film producer known for her work on the 2022 movie "The Contractor."
  • B. Ellen Wright
    Ellen Wright is an individual also known by the name Ellen Poplar, likely recognized in contexts where this alternate name is used.
  • C. Venida Browder
    Venida Browder was the mother of Kalief Browder and a prominent advocate for criminal justice reform whose family’s ordeal drew national attention to the harms of pretrial detention and the bail system in the United States.
  • D. Judith Kaye
    Judith Kaye was a pioneering American jurist who became the first woman and longest-serving Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.
  • E. Rebekah Neumann
    Rebekah Neumann is an American entrepreneur and former chief brand and impact officer of WeWork, known for co-founding the WeGrow education initiative and for her influential role in the company’s culture and vision.
  • 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_69d87f1a8dd881909f1de6ef78849874 completed April 10, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e2016a9dd48190bca3f58778ed865f completed April 17, 2026, 9:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffebab779c8190b466c26f4024aa31 completed May 10, 2026, 2:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffec4898088190bed531e33418c7e5 completed May 10, 2026, 2:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffecce96508190a53f100e3207ebac completed May 10, 2026, 2:26 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5 a.m.