Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Matthew Shepard E165732 entity
Predicate perpetrator P698 FINISHED
Object Aaron McKinney
Aaron McKinney is an American man best known as one of the two assailants convicted in the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a crime that drew national attention to anti-LGBTQ+ hate violence.
E641695 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: Aaron McKinney | Statement: [Matthew Shepard, perpetrator, Aaron McKinney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aaron McKinney
Context triple: [Matthew Shepard, perpetrator, Aaron McKinney]
  • A. Troy Kennedy Martin
    Troy Kennedy Martin was a British television and film screenwriter best known for creating the series "Z-Cars" and writing the original 1969 film "The Italian Job."
  • B. Marc Bulger
    Marc Bulger is a former NFL quarterback best known for his Pro Bowl tenure with the St. Louis Rams in the 2000s.
  • C. Anthony Robert McMillan
    Anthony Robert McMillan, better known by his stage name Robbie Coltrane, was a Scottish actor and comedian famed for roles such as Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter film series.
  • D. Bernhard Goetz
    Bernhard Goetz is an American man who gained national notoriety in the 1980s as the "Subway Vigilante" after shooting four teenagers on a New York City subway train, sparking intense debate over crime, self-defense, and race.
  • E. John Crawford
    John Crawford was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television from the 1940s through the 1980s.
  • 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: Aaron McKinney
Triple: [Matthew Shepard, perpetrator, Aaron McKinney]
Generated description
Aaron McKinney is an American man best known as one of the two assailants convicted in the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a crime that drew national attention to anti-LGBTQ+ hate violence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aaron McKinney
Target entity description: Aaron McKinney is an American man best known as one of the two assailants convicted in the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a crime that drew national attention to anti-LGBTQ+ hate violence.
  • A. Troy Kennedy Martin
    Troy Kennedy Martin was a British television and film screenwriter best known for creating the series "Z-Cars" and writing the original 1969 film "The Italian Job."
  • B. Marc Bulger
    Marc Bulger is a former NFL quarterback best known for his Pro Bowl tenure with the St. Louis Rams in the 2000s.
  • C. Anthony Robert McMillan
    Anthony Robert McMillan, better known by his stage name Robbie Coltrane, was a Scottish actor and comedian famed for roles such as Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter film series.
  • D. Bernhard Goetz
    Bernhard Goetz is an American man who gained national notoriety in the 1980s as the "Subway Vigilante" after shooting four teenagers on a New York City subway train, sparking intense debate over crime, self-defense, and race.
  • E. John Crawford
    John Crawford was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television from the 1940s through the 1980s.
  • 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_69c6888120f081908f8f01b201dc4a4c completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e5edf89c8190a069b35ff7768165 completed March 27, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c79cbc35d48190974e207eb98dcbe3 completed March 28, 2026, 9:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c79d31a9e8819096e6a3040b1852a9 completed March 28, 2026, 9:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c79dc7d7d8819097e423ef70b03040 completed March 28, 2026, 9:22 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:43 p.m.