Triple
T843477
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents |
E18226
|
entity |
| Predicate | fact |
P20559
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
George W. McLaurin was an African American applicant to the University of Oklahoma Graduate College.
McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents was a landmark 1950 U.S. Supreme Court case that challenged racial segregation in graduate education and helped pave the way for Brown v. Board of Education.
|
E18226
|
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: George W. McLaurin was an African American applicant to the University of Oklahoma Graduate College. | Statement: [McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, fact, George W. McLaurin was an African American applicant to the University of Oklahoma Graduate College.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George W. McLaurin was an African American applicant to the University of Oklahoma Graduate College. Context triple: [McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, fact, George W. McLaurin was an African American applicant to the University of Oklahoma Graduate College.]
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A.
Heman Marion Sweatt
Heman Marion Sweatt was an African American civil rights figure whose challenge to racial segregation in higher education led to the landmark 1950 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Sweatt v. Painter, paving the way for Brown v. Board of Education.
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B.
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.
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C.
McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents
McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents is a 1950 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down racial segregation within a public university’s graduate program, marking an important step toward the desegregation of higher education.
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D.
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.
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E.
Tuskegee University
Tuskegee University is a historically Black university in Tuskegee, Alabama, renowned for its legacy in African American education, engineering, and the sciences.
- 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: George W. McLaurin was an African American applicant to the University of Oklahoma Graduate College. Triple: [McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, fact, George W. McLaurin was an African American applicant to the University of Oklahoma Graduate College.]
Generated description
McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents was a landmark 1950 U.S. Supreme Court case that challenged racial segregation in graduate education and helped pave the way for Brown v. Board of Education.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George W. McLaurin was an African American applicant to the University of Oklahoma Graduate College. Target entity description: McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents was a landmark 1950 U.S. Supreme Court case that challenged racial segregation in graduate education and helped pave the way for Brown v. Board of Education.
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A.
Heman Marion Sweatt
Heman Marion Sweatt was an African American civil rights figure whose challenge to racial segregation in higher education led to the landmark 1950 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Sweatt v. Painter, paving the way for Brown v. Board of Education.
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B.
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.
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C.
McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents
chosen
McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents is a 1950 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down racial segregation within a public university’s graduate program, marking an important step toward the desegregation of higher education.
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D.
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.
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E.
Tuskegee University
Tuskegee University is a historically Black university in Tuskegee, Alabama, renowned for its legacy in African American education, engineering, and the sciences.
- F. None of above.
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: fact Context triple: [McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, fact, George W. McLaurin was an African American applicant to the University of Oklahoma Graduate College.]
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A.
factFinding
Indicates a process of gathering and verifying information or evidence to determine the truth about a situation or claim.
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B.
factPattern
Indicates that a specific configuration of facts or circumstances holds in a situation, typically used as the basis for applying rules, reasoning, or legal/logic inferences.
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C.
fault
Indicates that one entity is responsible or at blame for a problem, error, or undesirable outcome involving another entity or situation.
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D.
notableFact
Indicates that there exists a particularly significant or noteworthy fact or piece of information associated with the subject.
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E.
faction
Indicates that an entity is formally affiliated with, or belongs to, a particular faction or organized group within a broader context.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (7 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_69a4938b04208190b82e1df6b572c548 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4ac07fedc8190ab05595f25c1792f |
completed | March 1, 2026, 9:13 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a7929c8c9c8190a0279f347ab64765 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 2:02 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a792fcb75881908562b79005d62b3b |
completed | March 4, 2026, 2:03 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a793fd988481908ad3c6d2cd46026d |
completed | March 4, 2026, 2:07 a.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69a4aa7f396c8190aa8b8dfbe0b4f732 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 9:07 p.m. |
| PDg | Predicate description generation | batch_69a4ab4893e481908632102d240466dc |
completed | March 1, 2026, 9:10 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.