Triple

T13386164
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Woburn toxic waste contamination cases E319450 entity
Predicate significantEvent P259 FINISHED
Object civil lawsuit Anderson et al. v. W.R. Grace & Co. et al. E662015 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: civil lawsuit Anderson et al. v. W.R. Grace & Co. et al. | Statement: [Woburn toxic waste contamination cases, significantEvent, civil lawsuit Anderson et al. v. W.R. Grace & Co. et al.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: civil lawsuit Anderson et al. v. W.R. Grace & Co. et al.
Context triple: [Woburn toxic waste contamination cases, significantEvent, civil lawsuit Anderson et al. v. W.R. Grace & Co. et al.]
  • A. Anderson v. Cryovac chosen
    Anderson v. Cryovac is a landmark environmental contamination lawsuit over industrial pollution of drinking water in Woburn, Massachusetts, that became widely known through the book and film "A Civil Action."
  • B. Bar suit
    The Bar suit is Christian Dior’s iconic 1947 tailored jacket-and-skirt ensemble that epitomized the revolutionary “New Look” with its cinched waist and full, mid-calf skirt.
  • C. MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co.
    MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co. is a landmark 1916 New York Court of Appeals case that expanded manufacturers’ liability in negligence to consumers, even without privity of contract.
  • D. Wilkins v. Gaddy
    Wilkins v. Gaddy is a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision clarifying that the core inquiry in Eighth Amendment excessive force claims is the nature of the force used rather than the extent of the inmate’s injury.
  • E. A Civil Action
    A Civil Action is a 1995 non-fiction book by Jonathan Harr, later adapted into a film, that chronicles a landmark environmental pollution lawsuit in Woburn, Massachusetts.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69d806b886bc8190b676e7768b8e01c5 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dadce96d1881909957fdd068a7f55d completed April 11, 2026, 11:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7268f9a908190843481dd313f5a11 completed May 3, 2026, 10:42 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:34 p.m.