Triple

T3929498
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Christopher Newsom E93360 entity
Predicate legalCase P3996 FINISHED
Object State of Tennessee v. Letalvis Cobbins
State of Tennessee v. Letalvis Cobbins is a criminal case arising from the 2007 kidnapping, rape, and murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom in Knoxville, Tennessee, which led to multiple high-profile prosecutions.
E399154 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: State of Tennessee v. Letalvis Cobbins | Statement: [Christopher Newsom, legalCase, State of Tennessee v. Letalvis Cobbins]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: State of Tennessee v. Letalvis Cobbins
Context triple: [Christopher Newsom, legalCase, State of Tennessee v. Letalvis Cobbins]
  • A. Coker v. Georgia
    Coker v. Georgia is a 1977 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held the death penalty is a disproportionate punishment for the crime of raping an adult woman, thereby limiting the application of capital punishment under the Eighth Amendment.
  • B. McCleskey v. Kemp
    McCleskey v. Kemp is a landmark 1987 U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court rejected a constitutional challenge to the death penalty based on statistical evidence of racial disparities in its application.
  • C. Alabama v. Shelton
    Alabama v. Shelton is a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court case that held a suspended sentence that may result in imprisonment cannot be imposed unless the defendant was afforded the right to counsel.
  • D. Furman v. Georgia
    Furman v. Georgia is a landmark 1972 U.S. Supreme Court case that temporarily halted capital punishment nationwide by ruling existing death penalty schemes unconstitutional under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.
  • E. Lockett v. Ohio
    Lockett v. Ohio is a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision that significantly expanded the range of mitigating factors a sentencer must be allowed to consider before imposing the death penalty.
  • 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: State of Tennessee v. Letalvis Cobbins
Triple: [Christopher Newsom, legalCase, State of Tennessee v. Letalvis Cobbins]
Generated description
State of Tennessee v. Letalvis Cobbins is a criminal case arising from the 2007 kidnapping, rape, and murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom in Knoxville, Tennessee, which led to multiple high-profile prosecutions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: State of Tennessee v. Letalvis Cobbins
Target entity description: State of Tennessee v. Letalvis Cobbins is a criminal case arising from the 2007 kidnapping, rape, and murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom in Knoxville, Tennessee, which led to multiple high-profile prosecutions.
  • A. Coker v. Georgia
    Coker v. Georgia is a 1977 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held the death penalty is a disproportionate punishment for the crime of raping an adult woman, thereby limiting the application of capital punishment under the Eighth Amendment.
  • B. McCleskey v. Kemp
    McCleskey v. Kemp is a landmark 1987 U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court rejected a constitutional challenge to the death penalty based on statistical evidence of racial disparities in its application.
  • C. Alabama v. Shelton
    Alabama v. Shelton is a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court case that held a suspended sentence that may result in imprisonment cannot be imposed unless the defendant was afforded the right to counsel.
  • D. Furman v. Georgia
    Furman v. Georgia is a landmark 1972 U.S. Supreme Court case that temporarily halted capital punishment nationwide by ruling existing death penalty schemes unconstitutional under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.
  • E. Lockett v. Ohio
    Lockett v. Ohio is a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision that significantly expanded the range of mitigating factors a sentencer must be allowed to consider before imposing the death penalty.
  • 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_69aed96bfa1081908f7b30f2c647dee6 completed March 9, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeeda65b708190b24cd715915aec1d completed March 9, 2026, 3:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5288094408190b5fece72ead94ec1 completed March 14, 2026, 9:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5293b41748190929665970712707a completed March 14, 2026, 9:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b529e9080481908ff0ec30b295cfc3 completed March 14, 2026, 9:27 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:23 p.m.