Triple

T9839406
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ghosts of Mississippi E239182 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Byron De La Beckwith
Byron De La Beckwith was a white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan member best known for assassinating civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963 and being convicted decades later.
E824123 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: Byron De La Beckwith | Statement: [Ghosts of Mississippi, character, Byron De La Beckwith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Byron De La Beckwith
Context triple: [Ghosts of Mississippi, character, Byron De La Beckwith]
  • A. Jeral Wayne Williams
    Jeral Wayne Williams, better known as Mutulu Shakur, was an American activist, acupuncturist, and Black Liberation Army member associated with Black liberation movements and the stepfather of rapper Tupac Shakur.
  • B. Roy Bryant
    Roy Bryant was a Mississippi shopkeeper whose accusation against Emmett Till and subsequent acquittal in Till’s 1955 lynching made him a central figure in one of the most infamous racially motivated murders in American history.
  • C. James Earl Ray
    James Earl Ray was an American criminal best known for assassinating civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.
  • D. Jack Ruby
    Jack Ruby was the Dallas nightclub owner who fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, on live television in 1963.
  • E. James Carroll Beckwith
    James Carroll Beckwith was an American portrait and genre painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his refined academic style and contributions to the New York art scene.
  • 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: Byron De La Beckwith
Triple: [Ghosts of Mississippi, character, Byron De La Beckwith]
Generated description
Byron De La Beckwith was a white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan member best known for assassinating civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963 and being convicted decades later.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Byron De La Beckwith
Target entity description: Byron De La Beckwith was a white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan member best known for assassinating civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963 and being convicted decades later.
  • A. Jeral Wayne Williams
    Jeral Wayne Williams, better known as Mutulu Shakur, was an American activist, acupuncturist, and Black Liberation Army member associated with Black liberation movements and the stepfather of rapper Tupac Shakur.
  • B. Roy Bryant
    Roy Bryant was a Mississippi shopkeeper whose accusation against Emmett Till and subsequent acquittal in Till’s 1955 lynching made him a central figure in one of the most infamous racially motivated murders in American history.
  • C. James Earl Ray
    James Earl Ray was an American criminal best known for assassinating civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.
  • D. Jack Ruby
    Jack Ruby was the Dallas nightclub owner who fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, on live television in 1963.
  • E. James Carroll Beckwith
    James Carroll Beckwith was an American portrait and genre painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his refined academic style and contributions to the New York art scene.
  • 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_69ca84e3f0c48190ada72a65ebd50efd completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb34b045481908f89abd576aab497 completed April 2, 2026, 12:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1d5d145ac8190ad10a4328216ef54 completed April 5, 2026, 3:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1d6bb23cc81909efbeccf147018e8 completed April 5, 2026, 3:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1d726e58c819090135d1ff275d2d8 completed April 5, 2026, 3:29 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:33 p.m.