Triple
T1228117
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | De Canas v. Bica |
E26372
|
entity |
| Predicate | authorOfMajorityOpinion |
P24731
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William J. Brennan Jr. |
E24165
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: William J. Brennan Jr. | Statement: [De Canas v. Bica, authorOfMajorityOpinion, William J. Brennan Jr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William J. Brennan Jr. Context triple: [De Canas v. Bica, authorOfMajorityOpinion, William J. Brennan Jr.]
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A.
William J. Brennan Jr.
chosen
William J. Brennan Jr. was a long-serving associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his influential liberal opinions expanding civil rights and civil liberties.
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B.
Harry A. Blackmun
Harry A. Blackmun was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, best known for authoring the landmark abortion rights decision in Roe v. Wade.
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C.
Abe Fortas
Abe Fortas was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and was a close adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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D.
William O. Douglas
William O. Douglas was a long-serving U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his strong civil libertarian views and expansive interpretation of individual rights under the Constitution.
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E.
Justice Stanley Reed
Justice Stanley Reed was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1938–1957) known for his generally moderate to conservative jurisprudence during the New Deal and early Cold War eras.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: authorOfMajorityOpinion Context triple: [De Canas v. Bica, authorOfMajorityOpinion, William J. Brennan Jr.]
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A.
hasMajorityOpinionBy
Indicates that a majority of the relevant group or decision-making body holds or supports the opinion expressed by the referenced entity.
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B.
concurringJustice
Indicates that a justice agrees with the court’s judgment or outcome but writes or joins a separate concurring opinion expressing different or additional reasoning.
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C.
majorityJustices
Indicates that the referenced justices constitute more than half of the members of the relevant court or judicial panel in a given decision or context.
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D.
hasDissentingJustice
Indicates that within a judicial decision or ruling, there exists at least one justice who formally disagrees with the majority opinion.
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E.
pluralityOpinionBy
Indicates that the referenced opinion is the controlling or majority view issued by a decision-making body, as opposed to concurring or dissenting opinions.
- 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_69a49484688c8190a1bf285eb396a8b6 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4be3c5d4c819087f9e9e37204c3be |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:31 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b24a7f3c5c8190b742a45a50c74ca8 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 5:09 a.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69a4bb65d61c8190bf0424ea0019a98b |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:19 p.m. |
| PDg | Predicate description generation | batch_69a4bbf83584819088c69366f58586cc |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:21 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.