Triple

T13232869
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Unocal Corporation E315065 entity
Predicate legalCase P3996 FINISHED
Object Doe v. Unocal Corp.
Doe v. Unocal Corp. is a landmark U.S. human rights lawsuit in which Burmese villagers sued Unocal in federal court for alleged complicity in forced labor and other abuses linked to a gas pipeline project in Myanmar.
E1029617 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: Doe v. Unocal Corp. | Statement: [Unocal Corporation, legalCase, Doe v. Unocal Corp.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Doe v. Unocal Corp.
Context triple: [Unocal Corporation, legalCase, Doe v. Unocal Corp.]
  • A. Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.
    Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. is a landmark 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case that limited the extraterritorial application of the Alien Tort Statute in human rights lawsuits against corporations for conduct occurring abroad.
  • B. Branch v. Texas
    Branch v. Texas is a U.S. Supreme Court case addressing the constitutionality and application of the death penalty in the wake of the landmark Furman v. Georgia decision.
  • C. Ogden v. Saunders
    Ogden v. Saunders is an 1827 U.S. Supreme Court case, known for Justice Bushrod Washington’s opinion addressing the constitutionality of state bankruptcy laws under the Contract Clause.
  • D. Lucas v. Earl
    Lucas v. Earl is a landmark 1930 U.S. Supreme Court tax law case that established the principle that income is taxed to the person who earns it, regardless of contractual arrangements to split or assign that income.
  • E. South Dakota v. Dole
    South Dakota v. Dole is a 1987 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld Congress’s power to condition federal highway funds on states adopting a minimum drinking age of 21, helping define the scope of the federal spending power.
  • 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: Doe v. Unocal Corp.
Triple: [Unocal Corporation, legalCase, Doe v. Unocal Corp.]
Generated description
Doe v. Unocal Corp. is a landmark U.S. human rights lawsuit in which Burmese villagers sued Unocal in federal court for alleged complicity in forced labor and other abuses linked to a gas pipeline project in Myanmar.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Doe v. Unocal Corp.
Target entity description: Doe v. Unocal Corp. is a landmark U.S. human rights lawsuit in which Burmese villagers sued Unocal in federal court for alleged complicity in forced labor and other abuses linked to a gas pipeline project in Myanmar.
  • A. Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.
    Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. is a landmark 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case that limited the extraterritorial application of the Alien Tort Statute in human rights lawsuits against corporations for conduct occurring abroad.
  • B. Branch v. Texas
    Branch v. Texas is a U.S. Supreme Court case addressing the constitutionality and application of the death penalty in the wake of the landmark Furman v. Georgia decision.
  • C. Ogden v. Saunders
    Ogden v. Saunders is an 1827 U.S. Supreme Court case, known for Justice Bushrod Washington’s opinion addressing the constitutionality of state bankruptcy laws under the Contract Clause.
  • D. Lucas v. Earl
    Lucas v. Earl is a landmark 1930 U.S. Supreme Court tax law case that established the principle that income is taxed to the person who earns it, regardless of contractual arrangements to split or assign that income.
  • E. South Dakota v. Dole
    South Dakota v. Dole is a 1987 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld Congress’s power to condition federal highway funds on states adopting a minimum drinking age of 21, helping define the scope of the federal spending power.
  • 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_69d806affc688190a25b6ccc588e9c72 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98d34ff288190bdb550a019b7a470 completed April 10, 2026, 11:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6ff2dca2c81909cab1aa868ad575d completed May 3, 2026, 7:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f70476310c8190b13dc948c1f1ce95 completed May 3, 2026, 8:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f70578047c819089fc3044eceb4eac completed May 3, 2026, 8:21 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:22 p.m.