Triple

T655499
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Briggs v. Elliott E11638 entity
Predicate plaintiff P660 FINISHED
Object Harry Briggs Sr.
Harry Briggs Sr. was a key African American civil rights figure whose role as a plaintiff in a landmark school desegregation case helped pave the way for the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision.
E152386 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: Harry Briggs Sr. | Statement: [Briggs v. Elliott, plaintiff, Harry Briggs Sr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry Briggs Sr.
Context triple: [Briggs v. Elliott, plaintiff, Harry Briggs Sr.]
  • A. John R. Steelman
    John R. Steelman was an American administrator and labor mediator who served as a top aide to President Harry S. Truman and became one of the most influential behind-the-scenes figures in the postwar White House.
  • B. Harry M. Wegeforth
    Harry M. Wegeforth was an American physician and civic leader best known for establishing and guiding the early development of the San Diego Zoo into a major zoological institution.
  • C. Mervin J. Kelly
    Mervin J. Kelly was an American physicist and influential Bell Labs executive known for his leadership in advancing telecommunications and solid-state research.
  • D. James E. Shepard
    James E. Shepard was an African American educator and civil rights advocate who founded what became North Carolina Central University, one of the nation’s prominent historically Black universities.
  • E. George P. Davis
    George P. Davis was the taxpayer whose challenge to the Social Security Act’s payroll tax provisions led to the landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case Helvering v. Davis.
  • 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: Harry Briggs Sr.
Triple: [Briggs v. Elliott, plaintiff, Harry Briggs Sr.]
Generated description
Harry Briggs Sr. was a key African American civil rights figure whose role as a plaintiff in a landmark school desegregation case helped pave the way for the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry Briggs Sr.
Target entity description: Harry Briggs Sr. was a key African American civil rights figure whose role as a plaintiff in a landmark school desegregation case helped pave the way for the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision.
  • A. John R. Steelman
    John R. Steelman was an American administrator and labor mediator who served as a top aide to President Harry S. Truman and became one of the most influential behind-the-scenes figures in the postwar White House.
  • B. Harry M. Wegeforth
    Harry M. Wegeforth was an American physician and civic leader best known for establishing and guiding the early development of the San Diego Zoo into a major zoological institution.
  • C. Mervin J. Kelly
    Mervin J. Kelly was an American physicist and influential Bell Labs executive known for his leadership in advancing telecommunications and solid-state research.
  • D. James E. Shepard
    James E. Shepard was an African American educator and civil rights advocate who founded what became North Carolina Central University, one of the nation’s prominent historically Black universities.
  • E. George P. Davis
    George P. Davis was the taxpayer whose challenge to the Social Security Act’s payroll tax provisions led to the landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case Helvering v. Davis.
  • 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_69a4932862a0819098be659c814e4981 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49f4d57688190a9515ac494a97b22 completed March 1, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acbf00f0e08190b90a719952216204 completed March 8, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acc09f45848190a191696bd5bc958b completed March 8, 2026, 12:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acc13442948190b0a4bdd27e2b989a completed March 8, 2026, 12:22 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.