Triple

T6412772
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Hersey E127747 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Algiers Motel Incident
The Algiers Motel Incident is a nonfiction book by John Hersey that investigates the racially charged 1967 Detroit police killings of three Black teenagers and the brutalization of several others during the city’s uprising.
E592120 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: The Algiers Motel Incident | Statement: [John Hersey, notableWork, The Algiers Motel Incident]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Algiers Motel Incident
Context triple: [John Hersey, notableWork, The Algiers Motel Incident]
  • A. Battle of Liberty Place
    The Battle of Liberty Place was an 1874 violent insurrection in New Orleans in which the white supremacist White League temporarily overthrew the Reconstruction-era Republican state government.
  • B. Watts riots
    The Watts riots were a major six-day civil disturbance in 1965 in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, sparked by racial tensions and police brutality, that became a defining episode of urban unrest in the United States.
  • C. Jackson State killings
    The Jackson State killings were a 1970 incident in which police opened fire on students at Jackson State College in Mississippi during anti–Vietnam War and civil rights protests, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries.
  • D. 1967 Newark riots
    The 1967 Newark riots were a major urban uprising in Newark, New Jersey, sparked by racial tensions and police brutality, that became one of the most significant and violent civil disturbances of the 1960s in the United States.
  • E. North Hollywood shootout
    The North Hollywood shootout was a 1997 armed confrontation in Los Angeles in which two heavily armed bank robbers engaged in a prolonged gun battle with police, prompting major changes in law enforcement weaponry and tactics.
  • 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: The Algiers Motel Incident
Triple: [John Hersey, notableWork, The Algiers Motel Incident]
Generated description
The Algiers Motel Incident is a nonfiction book by John Hersey that investigates the racially charged 1967 Detroit police killings of three Black teenagers and the brutalization of several others during the city’s uprising.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Algiers Motel Incident
Target entity description: The Algiers Motel Incident is a nonfiction book by John Hersey that investigates the racially charged 1967 Detroit police killings of three Black teenagers and the brutalization of several others during the city’s uprising.
  • A. Battle of Liberty Place
    The Battle of Liberty Place was an 1874 violent insurrection in New Orleans in which the white supremacist White League temporarily overthrew the Reconstruction-era Republican state government.
  • B. Watts riots
    The Watts riots were a major six-day civil disturbance in 1965 in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, sparked by racial tensions and police brutality, that became a defining episode of urban unrest in the United States.
  • C. Jackson State killings
    The Jackson State killings were a 1970 incident in which police opened fire on students at Jackson State College in Mississippi during anti–Vietnam War and civil rights protests, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries.
  • D. 1967 Newark riots
    The 1967 Newark riots were a major urban uprising in Newark, New Jersey, sparked by racial tensions and police brutality, that became one of the most significant and violent civil disturbances of the 1960s in the United States.
  • E. North Hollywood shootout
    The North Hollywood shootout was a 1997 armed confrontation in Los Angeles in which two heavily armed bank robbers engaged in a prolonged gun battle with police, prompting major changes in law enforcement weaponry and tactics.
  • 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_69c0083723d88190b1e37b19df162c08 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c068d228208190ba05eeb7707482fe completed March 22, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c640c48e688190981a19ce5eb2af44 completed March 27, 2026, 8:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6427c80c48190b87b9ecd1e10e78a completed March 27, 2026, 8:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c642da89a48190a2d6de237669ca8c completed March 27, 2026, 8:42 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:42 p.m.