Triple
T6412772
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Hersey |
E127747
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
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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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.