Triple

T809169
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sweatt v. Painter E17504 entity
Predicate partyRace P18104 FINISHED
Object Heman Sweatt was African American
Heman Sweatt was an African American civil rights pioneer whose challenge to segregated higher education in the landmark Supreme Court case Sweatt v. Painter helped pave the way for Brown v. Board of Education.
E96879 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Heman Sweatt was African American | Statement: [Sweatt v. Painter, partyRace, Heman Sweatt was African American]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Heman Sweatt was African American
Context triple: [Sweatt v. Painter, partyRace, Heman Sweatt was African American]
  • A. Hosea Williams
    Hosea Williams was an American civil rights leader, close associate of Martin Luther King Jr., and prominent organizer of nonviolent protests during the Civil Rights Movement.
  • B. Homer Plessy
    Homer Plessy was a mixed-race Louisiana shoemaker and civil rights activist best known for challenging racial segregation laws in the landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • C. Ezell Blair Jr.
    Ezell Blair Jr. (later known as Jibreel Khazan) is a civil rights activist best known as one of the four African American college students who initiated the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina.
  • D. Medgar Evers
    Medgar Evers was a prominent African American civil rights leader and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi whose assassination in 1963 made him a martyr of the struggle against racial segregation and injustice.
  • E. Joel Elias Spingarn
    Joel Elias Spingarn was an American educator, literary critic, and civil rights activist who played a key leadership role in the early NAACP.
  • 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: Heman Sweatt was African American
Triple: [Sweatt v. Painter, partyRace, Heman Sweatt was African American]
Generated description
Heman Sweatt was an African American civil rights pioneer whose challenge to segregated higher education in the landmark Supreme Court case Sweatt v. Painter helped pave the way for Brown v. Board of Education.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Heman Sweatt was African American
Target entity description: Heman Sweatt was an African American civil rights pioneer whose challenge to segregated higher education in the landmark Supreme Court case Sweatt v. Painter helped pave the way for Brown v. Board of Education.
  • A. Hosea Williams
    Hosea Williams was an American civil rights leader, close associate of Martin Luther King Jr., and prominent organizer of nonviolent protests during the Civil Rights Movement.
  • B. Homer Plessy
    Homer Plessy was a mixed-race Louisiana shoemaker and civil rights activist best known for challenging racial segregation laws in the landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • C. Ezell Blair Jr.
    Ezell Blair Jr. (later known as Jibreel Khazan) is a civil rights activist best known as one of the four African American college students who initiated the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina.
  • D. Medgar Evers
    Medgar Evers was a prominent African American civil rights leader and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi whose assassination in 1963 made him a martyr of the struggle against racial segregation and injustice.
  • E. Joel Elias Spingarn
    Joel Elias Spingarn was an American educator, literary critic, and civil rights activist who played a key leadership role in the early NAACP.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: partyRace
Context triple: [Sweatt v. Painter, partyRace, Heman Sweatt was African American]
  • A. raceMeeting
    Indicates a competitive event where multiple participants race against each other under shared rules and conditions.
  • B. partyNumber
    Indicates the identifier or ordinal position assigned to a specific party within a multi-party relationship or transaction.
  • C. raceCategory chosen
    Indicates the classification of an entity into a specific race or racial group within a defined categorization system.
  • D. winnerParty
    Indicates the political party that has won a particular election, contest, or decision-making process.
  • E. rivalParty
    Indicates that one party is in competition or opposition with another party, often pursuing conflicting goals or interests.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69a4937ae8a08190b5084a03d532b30e completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ac07fedc8190ab05595f25c1792f completed March 1, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a76d8623248190a2306b23ea378534 completed March 3, 2026, 11:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a786dce5f481909bae68fade141630 completed March 4, 2026, 1:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a78744908481909f2ff69fcc873b6d completed March 4, 2026, 1:13 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a4aa7221c081908068e66fe720f26d completed March 1, 2026, 9:06 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.