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.]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.]
  • A. factFinding
    Indicates a process of gathering and verifying information or evidence to determine the truth about a situation or claim.
  • 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.
  • C. fault
    Indicates that one entity is responsible or at blame for a problem, error, or undesirable outcome involving another entity or situation.
  • D. notableFact
    Indicates that there exists a particularly significant or noteworthy fact or piece of information associated with the subject.
  • 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.