Triple

T7112246
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Matthew Shepard E165732 entity
Predicate legalCase P3996 FINISHED
Object State of Wyoming v. Aaron McKinney
State of Wyoming v. Aaron McKinney is the criminal case in which Aaron McKinney was prosecuted and convicted for the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a killing that drew national attention to anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes in the United States.
E641696 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: State of Wyoming v. Aaron McKinney | Statement: [Matthew Shepard, legalCase, State of Wyoming v. Aaron McKinney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: State of Wyoming v. Aaron McKinney
Context triple: [Matthew Shepard, legalCase, State of Wyoming v. Aaron McKinney]
  • A. Wolf v. Colorado
    Wolf v. Colorado was a 1949 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held the Fourth Amendment’s exclusionary rule did not apply to the states, a position later reversed by Mapp v. Ohio.
  • B. Oregon v. Elstad
    Oregon v. Elstad is a 1985 U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that a suspect’s later, properly Mirandized confession can be admissible even if an earlier unwarned statement was obtained in violation of Miranda.
  • C. Arizona v. Evans
    Arizona v. Evans is a 1995 U.S. Supreme Court case that extended the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule to evidence obtained through an arrest based on erroneous computer records.
  • D. Skinner v. Oklahoma
    Skinner v. Oklahoma is a landmark 1942 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down a state law mandating the sterilization of certain criminal offenders, recognizing procreation as a fundamental right under the Equal Protection Clause.
  • E. United States v. Ryan
    United States v. Ryan is a U.S. Supreme Court decision that formed part of the landmark 1883 Civil Rights Cases, which curtailed federal enforcement of civil rights protections against private discrimination.
  • 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: State of Wyoming v. Aaron McKinney
Triple: [Matthew Shepard, legalCase, State of Wyoming v. Aaron McKinney]
Generated description
State of Wyoming v. Aaron McKinney is the criminal case in which Aaron McKinney was prosecuted and convicted for the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a killing that drew national attention to anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: State of Wyoming v. Aaron McKinney
Target entity description: State of Wyoming v. Aaron McKinney is the criminal case in which Aaron McKinney was prosecuted and convicted for the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a killing that drew national attention to anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes in the United States.
  • A. Wolf v. Colorado
    Wolf v. Colorado was a 1949 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held the Fourth Amendment’s exclusionary rule did not apply to the states, a position later reversed by Mapp v. Ohio.
  • B. Oregon v. Elstad
    Oregon v. Elstad is a 1985 U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that a suspect’s later, properly Mirandized confession can be admissible even if an earlier unwarned statement was obtained in violation of Miranda.
  • C. Arizona v. Evans
    Arizona v. Evans is a 1995 U.S. Supreme Court case that extended the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule to evidence obtained through an arrest based on erroneous computer records.
  • D. Skinner v. Oklahoma
    Skinner v. Oklahoma is a landmark 1942 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down a state law mandating the sterilization of certain criminal offenders, recognizing procreation as a fundamental right under the Equal Protection Clause.
  • E. United States v. Ryan
    United States v. Ryan is a U.S. Supreme Court decision that formed part of the landmark 1883 Civil Rights Cases, which curtailed federal enforcement of civil rights protections against private discrimination.
  • 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.