Triple

T9894903
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ferguson, Missouri E181545 entity
Predicate majorEvent P259 FINISHED
Object 2014 shooting of Michael Brown
The 2014 shooting of Michael Brown was a fatal police shooting of an unarmed Black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, that sparked nationwide protests and a major debate over race, policing, and use of force in the United States.
E828200 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: 2014 shooting of Michael Brown | Statement: [Ferguson, Missouri, majorEvent, 2014 shooting of Michael Brown]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 2014 shooting of Michael Brown
Context triple: [Ferguson, Missouri, majorEvent, 2014 shooting of Michael Brown]
  • A. Michael Brown
    Michael Brown is an American actor better known professionally as Michael Ealy, recognized for his roles in films like "Barbershop" and "Think Like a Man" and the TV series "Almost Human."
  • B. Michael Brown
    Michael Brown is a film and television editor known for his work on the biographical miniseries "Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows."
  • C. Michael Brown
    Michael Brown is a musician best known as a member of the indie supergroup Gayngs.
  • D. Shooting of Amadou Diallo
    The Shooting of Amadou Diallo was a 1999 police shooting in New York City in which an unarmed West African immigrant was killed by officers who fired 41 shots, sparking widespread outrage and debates over racial profiling and police brutality in the United States.
  • E. Jackson State killings
    The Jackson State killings were a 1970 incident in which police opened fire on students at Jackson State College in Mississippi during anti–Vietnam War and civil rights protests, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries.
  • 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: 2014 shooting of Michael Brown
Triple: [Ferguson, Missouri, majorEvent, 2014 shooting of Michael Brown]
Generated description
The 2014 shooting of Michael Brown was a fatal police shooting of an unarmed Black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, that sparked nationwide protests and a major debate over race, policing, and use of force in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 2014 shooting of Michael Brown
Target entity description: The 2014 shooting of Michael Brown was a fatal police shooting of an unarmed Black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, that sparked nationwide protests and a major debate over race, policing, and use of force in the United States.
  • A. Michael Brown
    Michael Brown is an American actor better known professionally as Michael Ealy, recognized for his roles in films like "Barbershop" and "Think Like a Man" and the TV series "Almost Human."
  • B. Michael Brown
    Michael Brown is a musician best known as a member of the indie supergroup Gayngs.
  • C. Michael Brown
    Michael Brown is a film and television editor known for his work on the biographical miniseries "Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows."
  • D. Shooting of Amadou Diallo
    The Shooting of Amadou Diallo was a 1999 police shooting in New York City in which an unarmed West African immigrant was killed by officers who fired 41 shots, sparking widespread outrage and debates over racial profiling and police brutality in the United States.
  • E. Jackson State killings
    The Jackson State killings were a 1970 incident in which police opened fire on students at Jackson State College in Mississippi during anti–Vietnam War and civil rights protests, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries.
  • 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_69ca8283a6708190801af7a25a7ebb9f completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb4a89e148190901753e67483d72c completed April 2, 2026, 12:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1eb1355888190baf9846815801e92 completed April 5, 2026, 4:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1ec31e50081909edfd62308ca4af0 completed April 5, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1ece816548190825386ad48449df4 completed April 5, 2026, 5:02 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:39 p.m.