Triple

T3615226
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Boynton v. Virginia E76583 entity
Predicate factualBackground P20559 FINISHED
Object Bruce Boynton was convicted of trespass after refusing to leave a whites-only restaurant in a bus terminal
Boynton v. Virginia is a landmark 1960 U.S. Supreme Court case that held racial segregation in bus terminal facilities serving interstate passengers unconstitutional under the Interstate Commerce Act.
E373213 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: Bruce Boynton was convicted of trespass after refusing to leave a whites-only restaurant in a bus terminal | Statement: [Boynton v. Virginia, factualBackground, Bruce Boynton was convicted of trespass after refusing to leave a whites-only restaurant in a bus terminal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bruce Boynton was convicted of trespass after refusing to leave a whites-only restaurant in a bus terminal
Context triple: [Boynton v. Virginia, factualBackground, Bruce Boynton was convicted of trespass after refusing to leave a whites-only restaurant in a bus terminal]
  • A. Ollie’s Barbecue refused to serve Black customers in its dining area
    Ollie’s Barbecue refused to serve Black customers in its dining area, making it a central example of racial discrimination in public accommodations challenged in the Supreme Court case Katzenbach v. McClung.
  • B. Rosa Parks Bus
    The Rosa Parks Bus is the restored Montgomery city bus on which civil rights icon Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in 1955, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott and becoming a powerful symbol of the American civil rights movement.
  • C. Ordell Robbie
    Ordell Robbie is a ruthless and manipulative gunrunner in Quentin Tarantino’s film "Jackie Brown," known for his charismatic yet menacing demeanor.
  • D. Willie Horton
    Willie Horton is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and designated hitter best known as a longtime Detroit Tigers star and key contributor to their 1968 World Series championship team.
  • E. Homer Plessy
    Homer Plessy was a mixed-race Louisiana shoemaker and civil rights activist best known for challenging racial segregation laws in the landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • 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: Bruce Boynton was convicted of trespass after refusing to leave a whites-only restaurant in a bus terminal
Triple: [Boynton v. Virginia, factualBackground, Bruce Boynton was convicted of trespass after refusing to leave a whites-only restaurant in a bus terminal]
Generated description
Boynton v. Virginia is a landmark 1960 U.S. Supreme Court case that held racial segregation in bus terminal facilities serving interstate passengers unconstitutional under the Interstate Commerce Act.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bruce Boynton was convicted of trespass after refusing to leave a whites-only restaurant in a bus terminal
Target entity description: Boynton v. Virginia is a landmark 1960 U.S. Supreme Court case that held racial segregation in bus terminal facilities serving interstate passengers unconstitutional under the Interstate Commerce Act.
  • A. Ollie’s Barbecue refused to serve Black customers in its dining area
    Ollie’s Barbecue refused to serve Black customers in its dining area, making it a central example of racial discrimination in public accommodations challenged in the Supreme Court case Katzenbach v. McClung.
  • B. Rosa Parks Bus
    The Rosa Parks Bus is the restored Montgomery city bus on which civil rights icon Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in 1955, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott and becoming a powerful symbol of the American civil rights movement.
  • C. Ordell Robbie
    Ordell Robbie is a ruthless and manipulative gunrunner in Quentin Tarantino’s film "Jackie Brown," known for his charismatic yet menacing demeanor.
  • D. Willie Horton
    Willie Horton is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and designated hitter best known as a longtime Detroit Tigers star and key contributor to their 1968 World Series championship team.
  • E. Homer Plessy
    Homer Plessy was a mixed-race Louisiana shoemaker and civil rights activist best known for challenging racial segregation laws in the landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • 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_69ad85da0ba481908b3b48c69efe2b98 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc27b5e008190a72a8dab7d736e64 completed March 8, 2026, 6:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b433184a4081908598f4084e959c2e completed March 13, 2026, 3:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b436e75b6081908a64983955504af8 completed March 13, 2026, 4:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b43aa17e048190a39eb22a5be9da0c completed March 13, 2026, 4:26 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:23 p.m.