Triple

T11085058
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject political question doctrine E262097 entity
Predicate leadingCase P82359 FINISHED
Object Nixon v. United States
Nixon v. United States is a 1993 U.S. Supreme Court case that held challenges to the Senate’s procedures for conducting impeachment trials are nonjusticiable political questions beyond judicial review.
E903974 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: Nixon v. United States | Statement: [political question doctrine, leadingCase, Nixon v. United States]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nixon v. United States
Context triple: [political question doctrine, leadingCase, Nixon v. United States]
  • A. Nixon v. Fitzgerald
    Nixon v. Fitzgerald is a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court case that established absolute immunity from civil damages liability for a President’s official acts.
  • B. Nixon v. Condon
    Nixon v. Condon is a 1932 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down Texas’s delegation of authority to the Democratic Party to exclude Black voters from primary elections as unconstitutional state action under the Fourteenth Amendment.
  • C. United States v. Nixon
    United States v. Nixon was a landmark 1974 U.S. Supreme Court case that limited presidential privilege and compelled President Richard Nixon to release the Watergate tapes, reinforcing the principle that not even the president is above the law.
  • D. Reynolds v. United States
    Reynolds v. United States is an 1879 U.S. Supreme Court case that established the distinction between protected religious belief and regulable religiously motivated conduct, holding that the Free Exercise Clause does not excuse individuals from compliance with otherwise valid criminal laws such as those banning polygamy.
  • E. United States v. John D. Ehrlichman
    United States v. John D. Ehrlichman was a criminal case arising from the Watergate scandal in which former Nixon adviser John Ehrlichman was prosecuted for his role in the administration’s illegal activities and subsequent cover-up.
  • 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: Nixon v. United States
Triple: [political question doctrine, leadingCase, Nixon v. United States]
Generated description
Nixon v. United States is a 1993 U.S. Supreme Court case that held challenges to the Senate’s procedures for conducting impeachment trials are nonjusticiable political questions beyond judicial review.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nixon v. United States
Target entity description: Nixon v. United States is a 1993 U.S. Supreme Court case that held challenges to the Senate’s procedures for conducting impeachment trials are nonjusticiable political questions beyond judicial review.
  • A. Nixon v. Fitzgerald
    Nixon v. Fitzgerald is a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court case that established absolute immunity from civil damages liability for a President’s official acts.
  • B. Nixon v. Condon
    Nixon v. Condon is a 1932 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down Texas’s delegation of authority to the Democratic Party to exclude Black voters from primary elections as unconstitutional state action under the Fourteenth Amendment.
  • C. United States v. Nixon
    United States v. Nixon was a landmark 1974 U.S. Supreme Court case that limited presidential privilege and compelled President Richard Nixon to release the Watergate tapes, reinforcing the principle that not even the president is above the law.
  • D. Reynolds v. United States
    Reynolds v. United States is an 1879 U.S. Supreme Court case that established the distinction between protected religious belief and regulable religiously motivated conduct, holding that the Free Exercise Clause does not excuse individuals from compliance with otherwise valid criminal laws such as those banning polygamy.
  • E. United States v. John D. Ehrlichman
    United States v. John D. Ehrlichman was a criminal case arising from the Watergate scandal in which former Nixon adviser John Ehrlichman was prosecuted for his role in the administration’s illegal activities and subsequent cover-up.
  • 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_69d6aa9983c08190b0ef61603b69feac completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d799c2c7d4819087ac793153340178 completed April 9, 2026, 12:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e3e7a6dfa8819096f822294eb64dd1 completed April 18, 2026, 8:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e3f2cafc008190a3504999297f1e4e completed April 18, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e3f488819081908f9a4225279cde6b completed April 18, 2026, 9:15 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:27 p.m.