Triple

T7485890
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sherrilyn Ifill E176880 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century
On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century is a nonfiction book by civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill that examines the history and enduring impact of racial terror lynchings and calls for community-based truth and reconciliation.
E667106 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: On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century | Statement: [Sherrilyn Ifill, notableWork, On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century
Context triple: [Sherrilyn Ifill, notableWork, On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century]
  • A. The Man Who Killed Jim Crow
    "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow" is the honorific nickname given to pioneering civil rights lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston, whose legal strategy and mentorship laid the groundwork for dismantling racial segregation in the United States.
  • B. Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
    Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases is an 1892 pamphlet by Ida B. Wells that exposes and condemns the brutality and false justifications of lynching in the United States.
  • C. Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
    "Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age" is a nonfiction history book by Kevin Boyle that recounts the 1925 Detroit murder trial of Black physician Ossian Sweet, exploring its significance for American race relations and civil rights.
  • D. The Cross and the Lynching Tree
    The Cross and the Lynching Tree is a theological work by James H. Cone that explores the connection between the Christian crucifixion narrative and the history of racial terror and lynching in the United States.
  • E. Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration
    Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration is a museum in Montgomery, Alabama that traces the history of racial injustice in the United States from slavery through Jim Crow to the modern criminal justice system.
  • 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: On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century
Triple: [Sherrilyn Ifill, notableWork, On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century]
Generated description
On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century is a nonfiction book by civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill that examines the history and enduring impact of racial terror lynchings and calls for community-based truth and reconciliation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century
Target entity description: On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century is a nonfiction book by civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill that examines the history and enduring impact of racial terror lynchings and calls for community-based truth and reconciliation.
  • A. The Man Who Killed Jim Crow
    "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow" is the honorific nickname given to pioneering civil rights lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston, whose legal strategy and mentorship laid the groundwork for dismantling racial segregation in the United States.
  • B. Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
    Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases is an 1892 pamphlet by Ida B. Wells that exposes and condemns the brutality and false justifications of lynching in the United States.
  • C. Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
    "Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age" is a nonfiction history book by Kevin Boyle that recounts the 1925 Detroit murder trial of Black physician Ossian Sweet, exploring its significance for American race relations and civil rights.
  • D. The Cross and the Lynching Tree
    The Cross and the Lynching Tree is a theological work by James H. Cone that explores the connection between the Christian crucifixion narrative and the history of racial terror and lynching in the United States.
  • E. Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration
    Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration is a museum in Montgomery, Alabama that traces the history of racial injustice in the United States from slavery through Jim Crow to the modern criminal justice system.
  • 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_69c69f24ac508190bb98fe927c0bd065 completed March 27, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f556955c8190bf014a065e04c5d8 completed March 27, 2026, 9:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8349d83cc8190af98c3212e28e913 completed March 28, 2026, 8:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c835916e948190ad5789e4611f8842 completed March 28, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c83635c7888190834f02e7ea0f1ab5 completed March 28, 2026, 8:12 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:42 p.m.