Triple

T9894919

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Ferguson, Missouri	`E181545`	entity
Predicate	subjectOf	`P38`	FINISHED
Object	U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation (2015) The U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation (2015) was a federal probe that examined systemic racial bias and unconstitutional policing practices within the Ferguson, Missouri, police department and municipal court system.	`E828204`	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: U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation (2015) | Statement: [Ferguson, Missouri, subjectOf, U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation (2015)]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation (2015)
Context triple: [Ferguson, Missouri, subjectOf, U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation (2015)]

A. Office for Civil Rights
The Office for Civil Rights is a U.S. Department of Justice component responsible for ensuring that recipients of federal justice-related funding comply with civil rights laws and nondiscrimination requirements.
B. Office for Civil Rights
The Office for Civil Rights is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Education responsible for enforcing civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination in educational programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance.
C. Office for Civil Rights
The Office for Civil Rights is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services responsible for enforcing civil rights, privacy, and nondiscrimination laws in health and human services programs.
D. Center for Civil Rights
The Center for Civil Rights is a legal advocacy and research organization at UNC School of Law dedicated to advancing racial and social justice through litigation, policy work, and community engagement.
E. United States Department of Justice investigations into the King assassination
The United States Department of Justice investigations into the King assassination were federal inquiries conducted to examine the circumstances surrounding the 1968 murder of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., including potential conspiracies and the role of James Earl Ray.
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: U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation (2015)
Triple: [Ferguson, Missouri, subjectOf, U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation (2015)]

Generated description

The U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation (2015) was a federal probe that examined systemic racial bias and unconstitutional policing practices within the Ferguson, Missouri, police department and municipal court system.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation (2015)
Target entity description: The U.S. Department of Justice civil rights investigation (2015) was a federal probe that examined systemic racial bias and unconstitutional policing practices within the Ferguson, Missouri, police department and municipal court system.

A. Office for Civil Rights
The Office for Civil Rights is a U.S. Department of Justice component responsible for ensuring that recipients of federal justice-related funding comply with civil rights laws and nondiscrimination requirements.
B. Office for Civil Rights
The Office for Civil Rights is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Education responsible for enforcing civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination in educational programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance.
C. Office for Civil Rights
The Office for Civil Rights is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services responsible for enforcing civil rights, privacy, and nondiscrimination laws in health and human services programs.
D. Center for Civil Rights
The Center for Civil Rights is a legal advocacy and research organization at UNC School of Law dedicated to advancing racial and social justice through litigation, policy work, and community engagement.
E. United States Department of Justice investigations into the King assassination
The United States Department of Justice investigations into the King assassination were federal inquiries conducted to examine the circumstances surrounding the 1968 murder of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., including potential conspiracies and the role of James Earl Ray.
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.