Triple

T21102182
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charles Whitman shootings (loosely inspired) E519933 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object Charles Whitman
Charles Whitman was an American mass murderer and former Marine best known for perpetrating the 1966 University of Texas at Austin tower shooting, one of the first widely publicized mass shootings in U.S. history.
E1466887 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: Charles Whitman | Statement: [Charles Whitman shootings (loosely inspired), basedOn, Charles Whitman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Whitman
Context triple: [Charles Whitman shootings (loosely inspired), basedOn, Charles Whitman]
  • A. Brian A. Nichols
    Brian A. Nichols is an American diplomat and career foreign service officer who serves in senior U.S. State Department leadership on Latin American and Caribbean policy.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Walter H. Paddock
    Walter H. Paddock was a cinematographer known for his work on the acclaimed nature documentary film "The Vanishing Prairie."
  • D. 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.
  • E. John J. McVeigh
    John J. McVeigh was a United States military serviceman whose burial at Golden Gate National Cemetery signifies his status as a veteran honored for his service.
  • 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: Charles Whitman
Triple: [Charles Whitman shootings (loosely inspired), basedOn, Charles Whitman]
Generated description
Charles Whitman was an American mass murderer and former Marine best known for perpetrating the 1966 University of Texas at Austin tower shooting, one of the first widely publicized mass shootings in U.S. history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Whitman
Target entity description: Charles Whitman was an American mass murderer and former Marine best known for perpetrating the 1966 University of Texas at Austin tower shooting, one of the first widely publicized mass shootings in U.S. history.
  • A. Brian A. Nichols
    Brian A. Nichols is an American diplomat and career foreign service officer who serves in senior U.S. State Department leadership on Latin American and Caribbean policy.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Walter H. Paddock
    Walter H. Paddock was a cinematographer known for his work on the acclaimed nature documentary film "The Vanishing Prairie."
  • D. 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.
  • E. John J. McVeigh
    John J. McVeigh was a United States military serviceman whose burial at Golden Gate National Cemetery signifies his status as a veteran honored for his service.
  • 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_69e0b508d8dc81909be940dafe36c8f7 completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e71b5ee8948190ac6e9e144d312c90 completed April 21, 2026, 6:38 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a095a64af448190b307dff9d4a87baf completed May 17, 2026, 6:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a095c4b5ad8819093e5c0de866be84b completed May 17, 2026, 6:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a095cda3c8081908d85b3da4fc1c06f completed May 17, 2026, 6:14 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:53 p.m.