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]
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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.
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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.
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C.
James Earl Ray
James Earl Ray was an American criminal best known for assassinating civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.
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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.
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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.
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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.