Triple

T11257259
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hudson v. McMillian E266469 entity
Predicate relatedCase P3137 FINISHED
Object Whitley v. Albers
Whitley v. Albers is a 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision that set the standard for evaluating prison officials’ use of force under the Eighth Amendment, focusing on whether force was applied in a good-faith effort to maintain or restore discipline or maliciously and sadistically to cause harm.
E914624 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: Whitley v. Albers | Statement: [Hudson v. McMillian, relatedCase, Whitley v. Albers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Whitley v. Albers
Context triple: [Hudson v. McMillian, relatedCase, Whitley v. Albers]
  • A. Whitney v. California
    Whitney v. California was a 1927 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld a conviction under a state criminal syndicalism law and became historically significant for Justice Brandeis’s influential concurrence on free speech before later being overruled.
  • B. Blakely v. Washington
    Blakely v. Washington is a landmark 2004 U.S. Supreme Court decision that applied the Apprendi rule to state sentencing guidelines, holding that any fact increasing a defendant’s sentence beyond the statutory maximum must be found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.
  • C. Downes v. Bidwell
    Downes v. Bidwell is a 1901 U.S. Supreme Court case that helped establish the "Insular Cases" doctrine, holding that full constitutional rights do not automatically extend to all territories under American control.
  • D. Briggs v. Elliott
    Briggs v. Elliott was a landmark federal court case from South Carolina challenging racial segregation in public schools, and it became one of the key cases consolidated into Brown v. Board of Education.
  • E. Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting
    Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting is a 2011 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld an Arizona law allowing the state to revoke business licenses of employers who knowingly hire unauthorized immigrants, ruling that it was not preempted by federal immigration law.
  • 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: Whitley v. Albers
Triple: [Hudson v. McMillian, relatedCase, Whitley v. Albers]
Generated description
Whitley v. Albers is a 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision that set the standard for evaluating prison officials’ use of force under the Eighth Amendment, focusing on whether force was applied in a good-faith effort to maintain or restore discipline or maliciously and sadistically to cause harm.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Whitley v. Albers
Target entity description: Whitley v. Albers is a 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision that set the standard for evaluating prison officials’ use of force under the Eighth Amendment, focusing on whether force was applied in a good-faith effort to maintain or restore discipline or maliciously and sadistically to cause harm.
  • A. Whitney v. California
    Whitney v. California was a 1927 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld a conviction under a state criminal syndicalism law and became historically significant for Justice Brandeis’s influential concurrence on free speech before later being overruled.
  • B. Blakely v. Washington
    Blakely v. Washington is a landmark 2004 U.S. Supreme Court decision that applied the Apprendi rule to state sentencing guidelines, holding that any fact increasing a defendant’s sentence beyond the statutory maximum must be found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.
  • C. Downes v. Bidwell
    Downes v. Bidwell is a 1901 U.S. Supreme Court case that helped establish the "Insular Cases" doctrine, holding that full constitutional rights do not automatically extend to all territories under American control.
  • D. Briggs v. Elliott
    Briggs v. Elliott was a landmark federal court case from South Carolina challenging racial segregation in public schools, and it became one of the key cases consolidated into Brown v. Board of Education.
  • E. Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting
    Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting is a 2011 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld an Arizona law allowing the state to revoke business licenses of employers who knowingly hire unauthorized immigrants, ruling that it was not preempted by federal immigration law.
  • 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_69d6aac7953c8190b82caf9d7640fdf9 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e935b85c819085e1abf2dd4099c5 completed April 9, 2026, 6 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e4cca0d25c8190bfdbe1f6ee3b04cb completed April 19, 2026, 12:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e4d9ec9964819084bd7118e49c41a2 completed April 19, 2026, 1:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e4ddab4ef48190ab7f371da765c6c0 completed April 19, 2026, 1:50 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:31 p.m.