Triple

T9971848
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bernhard Goetz E196226 entity
Predicate notableFor P22 FINISHED
Object 1984 New York City subway shooting
The 1984 New York City subway shooting was a highly publicized incident in which Bernhard Goetz shot four young men on a Manhattan subway train, sparking nationwide debate over crime, self-defense, and vigilantism.
E832247 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: 1984 New York City subway shooting | Statement: [Bernhard Goetz, notableFor, 1984 New York City subway shooting]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1984 New York City subway shooting
Context triple: [Bernhard Goetz, notableFor, 1984 New York City subway shooting]
  • A. Fraunces Tavern bombing
    The Fraunces Tavern bombing was a 1975 terrorist attack in New York City that killed four people and injured dozens, carried out by Puerto Rican nationalist militants.
  • B. New Jersey Turnpike shootout
    The New Jersey Turnpike shootout was a 1973 armed confrontation between Black Liberation Army members and state troopers that resulted in deaths on both sides and led to the controversial conviction and later escape of Assata Shakur.
  • C. Black Friday massacre
    The Black Friday massacre refers to the deadly crackdown by Iranian security forces on protestors in Tehran on 8 September 1978, a pivotal and brutal event during the Iranian Revolution.
  • D. Watertown, Massachusetts shootout
    The Watertown, Massachusetts shootout was the intense armed confrontation in April 2013 between law enforcement and the Boston Marathon bombing suspects that led to one suspect’s death and the manhunt’s dramatic conclusion.
  • E. 1991 Crown Heights riot
    The 1991 Crown Heights riot was a three-day outbreak of racial and ethnic violence in Brooklyn, New York, primarily involving tensions between the neighborhood’s Black and Hasidic Jewish communities.
  • 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: 1984 New York City subway shooting
Triple: [Bernhard Goetz, notableFor, 1984 New York City subway shooting]
Generated description
The 1984 New York City subway shooting was a highly publicized incident in which Bernhard Goetz shot four young men on a Manhattan subway train, sparking nationwide debate over crime, self-defense, and vigilantism.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1984 New York City subway shooting
Target entity description: The 1984 New York City subway shooting was a highly publicized incident in which Bernhard Goetz shot four young men on a Manhattan subway train, sparking nationwide debate over crime, self-defense, and vigilantism.
  • A. Fraunces Tavern bombing
    The Fraunces Tavern bombing was a 1975 terrorist attack in New York City that killed four people and injured dozens, carried out by Puerto Rican nationalist militants.
  • B. New Jersey Turnpike shootout
    The New Jersey Turnpike shootout was a 1973 armed confrontation between Black Liberation Army members and state troopers that resulted in deaths on both sides and led to the controversial conviction and later escape of Assata Shakur.
  • C. Black Friday massacre
    The Black Friday massacre refers to the deadly crackdown by Iranian security forces on protestors in Tehran on 8 September 1978, a pivotal and brutal event during the Iranian Revolution.
  • D. Watertown, Massachusetts shootout
    The Watertown, Massachusetts shootout was the intense armed confrontation in April 2013 between law enforcement and the Boston Marathon bombing suspects that led to one suspect’s death and the manhunt’s dramatic conclusion.
  • E. 1991 Crown Heights riot
    The 1991 Crown Heights riot was a three-day outbreak of racial and ethnic violence in Brooklyn, New York, primarily involving tensions between the neighborhood’s Black and Hasidic Jewish communities.
  • 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_69ca82eea2b88190a0e511d21a31f386 completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb7bb03688190a3f4fc1988b8fafa completed April 2, 2026, 12:26 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d23dd3e47c819095fef68b9939ec19 completed April 5, 2026, 10:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d23eb2971c8190bcdbc31b4ef19816 completed April 5, 2026, 10:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d240d7b7e881909183d7c33bd8cb5b completed April 5, 2026, 11 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:48 p.m.