Triple

T7112280
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Murder of James Byrd Jr. E165733 entity
Predicate perpetrator P698 FINISHED
Object John William King
John William King was a white supremacist who gained infamy as one of the men convicted and sentenced to death for the brutal 1998 dragging murder of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas.
E641699 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: John William King | Statement: [Murder of James Byrd Jr., perpetrator, John William King]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John William King
Context triple: [Murder of James Byrd Jr., perpetrator, John William King]
  • A. Charles D. King
    Charles D. King is an American media executive and film producer, best known as the founder and CEO of MACRO, a production company focused on amplifying Black voices in film and television.
  • B. Edward P. King
    Edward P. King was a U.S. Army major general best known for commanding American and Filipino forces on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines during World War II and ultimately surrendering them to Japanese forces in 1942.
  • C. William Archibald
    William Archibald was a Trinidad-born American playwright and screenwriter best known for his stage play "The Innocents," which he adapted from Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw."
  • D. William Christian
    William Christian was an American Revolutionary War officer and early Kentucky pioneer after whom Christian County, Kentucky, is named.
  • E. Thomas James
    Thomas James was a 17th-century Welsh explorer and navigator best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
  • 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: John William King
Triple: [Murder of James Byrd Jr., perpetrator, John William King]
Generated description
John William King was a white supremacist who gained infamy as one of the men convicted and sentenced to death for the brutal 1998 dragging murder of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John William King
Target entity description: John William King was a white supremacist who gained infamy as one of the men convicted and sentenced to death for the brutal 1998 dragging murder of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas.
  • A. Charles D. King
    Charles D. King is an American media executive and film producer, best known as the founder and CEO of MACRO, a production company focused on amplifying Black voices in film and television.
  • B. Edward P. King
    Edward P. King was a U.S. Army major general best known for commanding American and Filipino forces on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines during World War II and ultimately surrendering them to Japanese forces in 1942.
  • C. William Archibald
    William Archibald was a Trinidad-born American playwright and screenwriter best known for his stage play "The Innocents," which he adapted from Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw."
  • D. William Christian
    William Christian was an American Revolutionary War officer and early Kentucky pioneer after whom Christian County, Kentucky, is named.
  • E. Thomas James
    Thomas James was a 17th-century Welsh explorer and navigator best known for his Arctic voyages in search of the Northwest Passage.
  • 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.