Triple

T11598394
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alien Registration Act of 1940 E275062 entity
Predicate subjectOf P38 FINISHED
Object Scales v. United States
Scales v. United States is a 1961 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of prosecuting active members of organizations advocating violent overthrow of the government under the Smith Act, while requiring proof of specific intent to further those illegal aims.
E936062 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: Scales v. United States | Statement: [Alien Registration Act of 1940, subjectOf, Scales v. United States]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Scales v. United States
Context triple: [Alien Registration Act of 1940, subjectOf, Scales v. United States]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Screws v. United States
    Screws v. United States is a 1945 U.S. Supreme Court decision that narrowly interpreted federal civil rights protections in prosecuting state officials for the brutal killing of a Black man, shaping the “willful intent” standard under 18 U.S.C. § 242.
  • C. Yates v. United States
    Yates v. United States is a 1957 U.S. Supreme Court decision that significantly narrowed the application of the Smith Act by distinguishing between the advocacy of abstract doctrine and the advocacy of concrete action to overthrow the government.
  • D. Gall v. United States
    Gall v. United States is a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision that clarified federal sentencing discretion by holding that appellate courts must review all sentences, including those outside the Sentencing Guidelines, under a deferential abuse-of-discretion standard.
  • E. Herring v. United States
    Herring v. United States is a 2009 U.S. Supreme Court case that further limited the application of the exclusionary rule by holding that evidence need not be suppressed when obtained through isolated police negligence rather than deliberate or reckless misconduct.
  • 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: Scales v. United States
Triple: [Alien Registration Act of 1940, subjectOf, Scales v. United States]
Generated description
Scales v. United States is a 1961 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of prosecuting active members of organizations advocating violent overthrow of the government under the Smith Act, while requiring proof of specific intent to further those illegal aims.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Scales v. United States
Target entity description: Scales v. United States is a 1961 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of prosecuting active members of organizations advocating violent overthrow of the government under the Smith Act, while requiring proof of specific intent to further those illegal aims.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Screws v. United States
    Screws v. United States is a 1945 U.S. Supreme Court decision that narrowly interpreted federal civil rights protections in prosecuting state officials for the brutal killing of a Black man, shaping the “willful intent” standard under 18 U.S.C. § 242.
  • C. Yates v. United States
    Yates v. United States is a 1957 U.S. Supreme Court decision that significantly narrowed the application of the Smith Act by distinguishing between the advocacy of abstract doctrine and the advocacy of concrete action to overthrow the government.
  • D. Gall v. United States
    Gall v. United States is a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision that clarified federal sentencing discretion by holding that appellate courts must review all sentences, including those outside the Sentencing Guidelines, under a deferential abuse-of-discretion standard.
  • E. Herring v. United States
    Herring v. United States is a 2009 U.S. Supreme Court case that further limited the application of the exclusionary rule by holding that evidence need not be suppressed when obtained through isolated police negligence rather than deliberate or reckless misconduct.
  • 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_69d6aae6b14c81908dc5a74bad7591f9 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d89549c870819086e16e9110bbad87 completed April 10, 2026, 6:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e8a7dd83d48190b281a6fcfc3e4087 completed April 22, 2026, 10:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e8af93e07c8190aecb040cac6db146 completed April 22, 2026, 11:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ee5b254a2081909cba97a6ecb10601 completed April 26, 2026, 6:36 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:38 p.m.