Triple

T9894907
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ferguson, Missouri E181545 entity
Predicate policeDepartment P13246 FINISHED
Object Ferguson Police Department
The Ferguson Police Department is the municipal law enforcement agency for Ferguson, Missouri, widely known for its central role in the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown and the subsequent national scrutiny of policing practices.
E828201 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: Ferguson Police Department | Statement: [Ferguson, Missouri, policeDepartment, Ferguson Police Department]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ferguson Police Department
Context triple: [Ferguson, Missouri, policeDepartment, Ferguson Police Department]
  • A. North Kansas City Police Department
    The North Kansas City Police Department is the municipal law enforcement agency responsible for public safety and policing services within North Kansas City, Missouri.
  • B. Fairborn Police Department
    The Fairborn Police Department is the municipal law enforcement agency responsible for public safety and crime prevention in Fairborn, Ohio.
  • C. Memphis Police Department
    The Memphis Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency responsible for public safety and policing within the city of Memphis, Tennessee.
  • D. Atlanta Police Department
    The Atlanta Police Department is the primary municipal law enforcement agency for the city of Atlanta, Georgia, responsible for public safety, crime prevention, and criminal investigations within the city.
  • E. Metropolis Police Department
    The Metropolis Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency responsible for maintaining public safety and order in the fictional city of Metropolis, often depicted in DC Comics stories featuring Superman.
  • 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: Ferguson Police Department
Triple: [Ferguson, Missouri, policeDepartment, Ferguson Police Department]
Generated description
The Ferguson Police Department is the municipal law enforcement agency for Ferguson, Missouri, widely known for its central role in the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown and the subsequent national scrutiny of policing practices.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ferguson Police Department
Target entity description: The Ferguson Police Department is the municipal law enforcement agency for Ferguson, Missouri, widely known for its central role in the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown and the subsequent national scrutiny of policing practices.
  • A. North Kansas City Police Department
    The North Kansas City Police Department is the municipal law enforcement agency responsible for public safety and policing services within North Kansas City, Missouri.
  • B. Fairborn Police Department
    The Fairborn Police Department is the municipal law enforcement agency responsible for public safety and crime prevention in Fairborn, Ohio.
  • C. Memphis Police Department
    The Memphis Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency responsible for public safety and policing within the city of Memphis, Tennessee.
  • D. Atlanta Police Department
    The Atlanta Police Department is the primary municipal law enforcement agency for the city of Atlanta, Georgia, responsible for public safety, crime prevention, and criminal investigations within the city.
  • E. Metropolis Police Department
    The Metropolis Police Department is the primary law enforcement agency responsible for maintaining public safety and order in the fictional city of Metropolis, often depicted in DC Comics stories featuring Superman.
  • 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.