Triple

T4847113
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ossian Sweet trial E108316 entity
Predicate hasDefenseAttorney P3011 FINISHED
Object Walter Nelson
Walter Nelson was an attorney who served on the defense team in the landmark Ossian Sweet murder trial, which challenged racial injustice in 1920s Detroit.
E509968 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: Walter Nelson | Statement: [Ossian Sweet trial, hasDefenseAttorney, Walter Nelson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Nelson
Context triple: [Ossian Sweet trial, hasDefenseAttorney, Walter Nelson]
  • A. Walter Hendricks
    Walter Hendricks was an American educator best known as the founder and first president of Marlboro College in Vermont.
  • B. Walter Darre
    Walter Darré was a leading Nazi official and ideologue of "blood and soil" agrarianism who served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture and was later tried as a war criminal after World War II.
  • C. Louis Nelson
    Louis Nelson is an American graphic designer best known for creating the powerful visual narrative elements of the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • D. Walter Davidson
    Walter Davidson was an American businessman and motorcycle pioneer best known as a co-founder and the first president of Harley-Davidson.
  • E. Eric Hilliard Nelson
    Eric Hilliard "Ricky" Nelson was an American singer, musician, and actor who became a teen idol in the 1950s and 1960s, known for his rock and roll hits and his role on the television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
  • 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: Walter Nelson
Triple: [Ossian Sweet trial, hasDefenseAttorney, Walter Nelson]
Generated description
Walter Nelson was an attorney who served on the defense team in the landmark Ossian Sweet murder trial, which challenged racial injustice in 1920s Detroit.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Nelson
Target entity description: Walter Nelson was an attorney who served on the defense team in the landmark Ossian Sweet murder trial, which challenged racial injustice in 1920s Detroit.
  • A. Walter Hendricks
    Walter Hendricks was an American educator best known as the founder and first president of Marlboro College in Vermont.
  • B. Walter Darre
    Walter Darré was a leading Nazi official and ideologue of "blood and soil" agrarianism who served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture and was later tried as a war criminal after World War II.
  • C. Louis Nelson
    Louis Nelson is an American graphic designer best known for creating the powerful visual narrative elements of the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • D. Walter Davidson
    Walter Davidson was an American businessman and motorcycle pioneer best known as a co-founder and the first president of Harley-Davidson.
  • E. Eric Hilliard Nelson
    Eric Hilliard "Ricky" Nelson was an American singer, musician, and actor who became a teen idol in the 1950s and 1960s, known for his rock and roll hits and his role on the television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
  • 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_69bd4409b264819085ab855f3eb5381a completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7162427c81908a67a07545f698ae completed March 20, 2026, 4:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf10b0ec0c8190bcd4503dd09667c7 completed March 21, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf117894d481909817346060a28d07 completed March 21, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf1267a0a88190a558937fa7776ed7 completed March 21, 2026, 9:49 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:25 p.m.