Triple
T13386191
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Woburn toxic waste contamination cases |
E319450
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableLawyer |
P109714
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Jan Schlichtmann |
E690711
|
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: Jan Schlichtmann | Statement: [Woburn toxic waste contamination cases, notableLawyer, Jan Schlichtmann]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jan Schlichtmann Context triple: [Woburn toxic waste contamination cases, notableLawyer, Jan Schlichtmann]
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A.
Jan Schlichtmann
chosen
Jan Schlichtmann is a real-life American lawyer best known for his high-profile environmental pollution lawsuit against major corporations, which was dramatized in the book and film "A Civil Action."
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B.
Benno Levin
Benno Levin is a mysterious, mentally unstable stalker and would-be assassin who obsessively pursues billionaire asset manager Eric Packer in Don DeLillo’s novel "Cosmopolis."
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C.
Mendel Rosenblum
Mendel Rosenblum is a computer scientist and Stanford professor best known as a co-founder and chief architect of VMware and a pioneer in virtualization technology.
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D.
Leon Schiller
Leon Schiller was a prominent Polish theater and film director, critic, and theoretician, regarded as one of the key figures in 20th-century Polish performing arts.
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E.
Uriel Weinreich
Uriel Weinreich was a prominent linguist known for his pioneering work in Yiddish studies, language contact, and sociolinguistics.
- 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: notableLawyer Context triple: [Woburn toxic waste contamination cases, notableLawyer, Jan Schlichtmann]
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A.
notableProsecutor
Indicates that the person served as a prosecutor in a way that is widely recognized as significant or noteworthy.
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B.
notableLegalWork
Indicates that an entity is recognized for significant contributions, cases, or achievements within the field of law.
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C.
notableCaseContext
Indicates that an entity is associated with a particular contextual detail, circumstance, or background information relevant to a notable case or instance.
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D.
defenseAttorneyInNotableTrial
Indicates that a person served as the defense attorney representing a party in a legally or historically notable trial.
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E.
notableAreaOfLaw
Indicates that a person or entity is particularly recognized or distinguished in a specific field or area of 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_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_69f76b9ec6848190b8e986d849756050 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 3:37 p.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69d9a03189908190a784a2755f8d81e1 |
completed | April 11, 2026, 1:13 a.m. |
| PDg | Predicate description generation | batch_69dadcce5a808190847f2a7833b67a5a |
completed | April 11, 2026, 11:44 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:34 p.m.