Triple

T3929499
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Christopher Newsom E93360 entity
Predicate legalCase P3996 FINISHED
Object State of Tennessee v. George Thomas
State of Tennessee v. George Thomas is a criminal case arising from the highly publicized 2007 torture and murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom in Knoxville, Tennessee.
E399155 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. George Thomas | Statement: [Christopher Newsom, legalCase, State of Tennessee v. George Thomas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: State of Tennessee v. George Thomas
Context triple: [Christopher Newsom, legalCase, State of Tennessee v. George Thomas]
  • A. Chisholm v. Georgia
    Chisholm v. Georgia was a 1793 U.S. Supreme Court case that held a state could be sued in federal court by a citizen of another state, a ruling that led directly to the adoption of the Eleventh Amendment limiting such suits.
  • B. Jackson v. Georgia
    Jackson v. Georgia is a United States Supreme Court case that, alongside Furman v. Georgia, addressed the constitutionality and application of the death penalty under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Powell v. Alabama
    Powell v. Alabama is a landmark 1932 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held in capital cases the Due Process Clause requires defendants be given access to effective legal counsel, especially when they are young, illiterate, or otherwise disadvantaged.
  • 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. George Thomas
Triple: [Christopher Newsom, legalCase, State of Tennessee v. George Thomas]
Generated description
State of Tennessee v. George Thomas is a criminal case arising from the highly publicized 2007 torture and murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom in Knoxville, Tennessee.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: State of Tennessee v. George Thomas
Target entity description: State of Tennessee v. George Thomas is a criminal case arising from the highly publicized 2007 torture and murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom in Knoxville, Tennessee.
  • A. Chisholm v. Georgia
    Chisholm v. Georgia was a 1793 U.S. Supreme Court case that held a state could be sued in federal court by a citizen of another state, a ruling that led directly to the adoption of the Eleventh Amendment limiting such suits.
  • B. Jackson v. Georgia
    Jackson v. Georgia is a United States Supreme Court case that, alongside Furman v. Georgia, addressed the constitutionality and application of the death penalty under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Powell v. Alabama
    Powell v. Alabama is a landmark 1932 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held in capital cases the Due Process Clause requires defendants be given access to effective legal counsel, especially when they are young, illiterate, or otherwise disadvantaged.
  • 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.