Triple

T16849414
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 16 Shots E409629 entity
Predicate describesEvent P264 FINISHED
Object 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald
The 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald was a highly publicized police killing of a Black teenager in Chicago that sparked nationwide protests, exposed a cover-up by city officials, and led to the murder conviction of officer Jason Van Dyke.
E1236706 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: 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald | Statement: [16 Shots, describesEvent, 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald
Context triple: [16 Shots, describesEvent, 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald]
  • A. 2014 shooting of Michael Brown
    The 2014 shooting of Michael Brown was a fatal police shooting of an unarmed Black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, that sparked nationwide protests and a major debate over race, policing, and use of force in the United States.
  • B. Shooting of Amadou Diallo
    The Shooting of Amadou Diallo was a 1999 police shooting in New York City in which an unarmed West African immigrant was killed by officers who fired 41 shots, sparking widespread outrage and debates over racial profiling and police brutality in the United States.
  • C. Sandra Bland case
    The Sandra Bland case involves the 2015 arrest and subsequent death in a Texas jail of Sandra Bland, a Black woman whose treatment by law enforcement sparked national outrage and debates over racism and police brutality in the United States.
  • D. Dam Square shooting
    The Dam Square shooting was a violent incident in Amsterdam’s central Dam Square, remembered as a significant and tragic event in Dutch history.
  • E. Stringybark Creek police killings
    The Stringybark Creek police killings were a notorious 1878 incident in Victoria, Australia, in which members of the Kelly gang shot and killed three policemen, escalating Ned Kelly’s outlaw status and leading to his eventual capture and execution.
  • 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: 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald
Triple: [16 Shots, describesEvent, 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald]
Generated description
The 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald was a highly publicized police killing of a Black teenager in Chicago that sparked nationwide protests, exposed a cover-up by city officials, and led to the murder conviction of officer Jason Van Dyke.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald
Target entity description: The 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald was a highly publicized police killing of a Black teenager in Chicago that sparked nationwide protests, exposed a cover-up by city officials, and led to the murder conviction of officer Jason Van Dyke.
  • A. 2014 shooting of Michael Brown
    The 2014 shooting of Michael Brown was a fatal police shooting of an unarmed Black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, that sparked nationwide protests and a major debate over race, policing, and use of force in the United States.
  • B. Shooting of Amadou Diallo
    The Shooting of Amadou Diallo was a 1999 police shooting in New York City in which an unarmed West African immigrant was killed by officers who fired 41 shots, sparking widespread outrage and debates over racial profiling and police brutality in the United States.
  • C. Sandra Bland case
    The Sandra Bland case involves the 2015 arrest and subsequent death in a Texas jail of Sandra Bland, a Black woman whose treatment by law enforcement sparked national outrage and debates over racism and police brutality in the United States.
  • D. Dam Square shooting
    The Dam Square shooting was a violent incident in Amsterdam’s central Dam Square, remembered as a significant and tragic event in Dutch history.
  • E. Stringybark Creek police killings
    The Stringybark Creek police killings were a notorious 1878 incident in Victoria, Australia, in which members of the Kelly gang shot and killed three policemen, escalating Ned Kelly’s outlaw status and leading to his eventual capture and execution.
  • 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_69d883952b048190887740a980b712ed completed April 10, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3b377b5d881909f0878dd9957f3bc completed April 18, 2026, 4:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00bb1f02648190937c692af83843dc completed May 10, 2026, 5:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00bbc80d54819092de4ee363508b49 completed May 10, 2026, 5:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00bc633abc8190a86808986ba294ec completed May 10, 2026, 5:12 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:24 a.m.