Triple

T517937
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bolling v. Sharpe E10748 entity
Predicate respondent P2238 FINISHED
Object C. Melvin Sharpe
C. Melvin Sharpe was the Washington, D.C. school official whose role in maintaining racially segregated schools led to his being named as the respondent in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court desegregation case Bolling v. Sharpe.
E210958 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: C. Melvin Sharpe | Statement: [Bolling v. Sharpe, respondent, C. Melvin Sharpe]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: C. Melvin Sharpe
Context triple: [Bolling v. Sharpe, respondent, C. Melvin Sharpe]
  • A. Leonard Franklin Slye
    Leonard Franklin Slye, better known as Roy Rogers, was a hugely popular American singing cowboy actor and musician who became a Western film and television icon in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Robert H. Richards
    Robert H. Richards was a prominent American mining engineer and metallurgist known for pioneering work in ore dressing and mineral processing.
  • C. Harold Briggs
    Harold Briggs was a British Army officer best known for devising and implementing the Briggs Plan to combat communist insurgency during the Malayan Emergency.
  • D. Milton Van Dyke
    Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid Motion."
  • E. Ralph B. Lloyd
    Ralph B. Lloyd was an American oilman and real estate developer whose investments and land holdings played a major role in shaping urban districts in the western United States.
  • 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: C. Melvin Sharpe
Triple: [Bolling v. Sharpe, respondent, C. Melvin Sharpe]
Generated description
C. Melvin Sharpe was the Washington, D.C. school official whose role in maintaining racially segregated schools led to his being named as the respondent in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court desegregation case Bolling v. Sharpe.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: C. Melvin Sharpe
Target entity description: C. Melvin Sharpe was the Washington, D.C. school official whose role in maintaining racially segregated schools led to his being named as the respondent in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court desegregation case Bolling v. Sharpe.
  • A. Leonard Franklin Slye
    Leonard Franklin Slye, better known as Roy Rogers, was a hugely popular American singing cowboy actor and musician who became a Western film and television icon in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Robert H. Richards
    Robert H. Richards was a prominent American mining engineer and metallurgist known for pioneering work in ore dressing and mineral processing.
  • C. Harold Briggs
    Harold Briggs was a British Army officer best known for devising and implementing the Briggs Plan to combat communist insurgency during the Malayan Emergency.
  • D. Milton Van Dyke
    Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid Motion."
  • E. Ralph B. Lloyd
    Ralph B. Lloyd was an American oilman and real estate developer whose investments and land holdings played a major role in shaping urban districts in the western United States.
  • 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_69a2e84a0d08819087e01863fcd9abf1 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f19d81d48190bd65a02059fc8473 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adeaaaad508190992c7b50e9397450 completed March 8, 2026, 9:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adeb1ee4648190afd50782988b115c completed March 8, 2026, 9:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adeb9f28dc8190a0493a72153c60e6 completed March 8, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.