Triple

T941747
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Union Theological Seminary E20320 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object Howard Thurman
Howard Thurman was an influential African American theologian, mystic, and civil rights leader whose writings and ministry deeply shaped modern spiritual thought and the nonviolent movement.
E114429 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: Howard Thurman | Statement: [Union Theological Seminary, hasNotableAlumnus, Howard Thurman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Thurman
Context triple: [Union Theological Seminary, hasNotableAlumnus, Howard Thurman]
  • A. James H. Cone
    James H. Cone was an influential American theologian widely regarded as the founder of Black liberation theology.
  • B. Bayard Rustin
    Bayard Rustin was an influential American civil rights strategist, pacifist, and organizer best known for his behind-the-scenes leadership in the movement, including orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.
  • C. James Farmer
    James Farmer was a prominent American civil rights leader and co-founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), known for organizing the Freedom Rides to challenge segregation in the South.
  • D. James Bevel
    James Bevel was a prominent American civil rights leader and strategist, closely associated with Martin Luther King Jr., who played key roles in major campaigns such as the Freedom Rides, the Selma voting rights movement, and anti-war activism.
  • E. Ralph Abernathy
    Ralph Abernathy was an American civil rights leader, close associate of Martin Luther King Jr., and prominent Baptist minister who played a key role in the U.S. civil rights movement.
  • 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: Howard Thurman
Triple: [Union Theological Seminary, hasNotableAlumnus, Howard Thurman]
Generated description
Howard Thurman was an influential African American theologian, mystic, and civil rights leader whose writings and ministry deeply shaped modern spiritual thought and the nonviolent movement.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Thurman
Target entity description: Howard Thurman was an influential African American theologian, mystic, and civil rights leader whose writings and ministry deeply shaped modern spiritual thought and the nonviolent movement.
  • A. James H. Cone
    James H. Cone was an influential American theologian widely regarded as the founder of Black liberation theology.
  • B. Bayard Rustin
    Bayard Rustin was an influential American civil rights strategist, pacifist, and organizer best known for his behind-the-scenes leadership in the movement, including orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.
  • C. James Farmer
    James Farmer was a prominent American civil rights leader and co-founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), known for organizing the Freedom Rides to challenge segregation in the South.
  • D. James Bevel
    James Bevel was a prominent American civil rights leader and strategist, closely associated with Martin Luther King Jr., who played key roles in major campaigns such as the Freedom Rides, the Selma voting rights movement, and anti-war activism.
  • E. Ralph Abernathy
    Ralph Abernathy was an American civil rights leader, close associate of Martin Luther King Jr., and prominent Baptist minister who played a key role in the U.S. civil rights movement.
  • 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_69a493b0270c81909e6c9ce310f6aa55 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b3a1a4888190997adf56eb761431 completed March 1, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac16fdd37c81909262c1cc271cdd21 completed March 7, 2026, 12:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac176e56fc819093e45a57ed40eeef completed March 7, 2026, 12:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac182b59a08190a6656fc55d9683cb completed March 7, 2026, 12:20 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.