Triple

T13759117
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Stone v. Mississippi E330552 entity
Predicate holding P2237 FINISHED
Object The Contract Clause does not prevent a state from exercising its police power to suppress lotteries.
The Contract Clause does not prevent a state from exercising its police power to suppress lotteries is a constitutional principle, articulated in Stone v. Mississippi, that allows states to prohibit lotteries despite prior contractual or charter rights.
E1059246 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: The Contract Clause does not prevent a state from exercising its police power to suppress lotteries. | Statement: [Stone v. Mississippi, holding, The Contract Clause does not prevent a state from exercising its police power to suppress lotteries.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Contract Clause does not prevent a state from exercising its police power to suppress lotteries.
Context triple: [Stone v. Mississippi, holding, The Contract Clause does not prevent a state from exercising its police power to suppress lotteries.]
  • A. Ex Post Facto Clause
    The Ex Post Facto Clause is a constitutional prohibition that prevents governments from retroactively criminalizing conduct or increasing punishments after the fact.
  • B. Supremacy Clause
    The Supremacy Clause is a provision in the U.S. Constitution that establishes federal law and the Constitution as the highest law of the land, overriding conflicting state laws.
  • C. the Exceptions and Regulations Clause
    The Exceptions and Regulations Clause is a provision in the U.S. Constitution that grants Congress authority to limit and shape the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.
  • D. The Fifth Amendment Takings Clause does not apply to the states
    The Fifth Amendment Takings Clause does not apply to the states is the constitutional principle, established in the 1833 Supreme Court case Barron v. Baltimore, that the federal Bill of Rights’ just-compensation requirement originally restricted only the federal government and not state or local governments.
  • E. Interstate Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution
    The Interstate Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution is a provision in Article I, Section 8 that grants Congress the power to regulate trade and commerce among the several states, forming a key basis for federal regulatory authority.
  • 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: The Contract Clause does not prevent a state from exercising its police power to suppress lotteries.
Triple: [Stone v. Mississippi, holding, The Contract Clause does not prevent a state from exercising its police power to suppress lotteries.]
Generated description
The Contract Clause does not prevent a state from exercising its police power to suppress lotteries is a constitutional principle, articulated in Stone v. Mississippi, that allows states to prohibit lotteries despite prior contractual or charter rights.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Contract Clause does not prevent a state from exercising its police power to suppress lotteries.
Target entity description: The Contract Clause does not prevent a state from exercising its police power to suppress lotteries is a constitutional principle, articulated in Stone v. Mississippi, that allows states to prohibit lotteries despite prior contractual or charter rights.
  • A. Ex Post Facto Clause
    The Ex Post Facto Clause is a constitutional prohibition that prevents governments from retroactively criminalizing conduct or increasing punishments after the fact.
  • B. Supremacy Clause
    The Supremacy Clause is a provision in the U.S. Constitution that establishes federal law and the Constitution as the highest law of the land, overriding conflicting state laws.
  • C. the Exceptions and Regulations Clause
    The Exceptions and Regulations Clause is a provision in the U.S. Constitution that grants Congress authority to limit and shape the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.
  • D. The Fifth Amendment Takings Clause does not apply to the states
    The Fifth Amendment Takings Clause does not apply to the states is the constitutional principle, established in the 1833 Supreme Court case Barron v. Baltimore, that the federal Bill of Rights’ just-compensation requirement originally restricted only the federal government and not state or local governments.
  • E. Interstate Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution
    The Interstate Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution is a provision in Article I, Section 8 that grants Congress the power to regulate trade and commerce among the several states, forming a key basis for federal regulatory authority.
  • 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_69d81c573f288190aa2403d484fa3d49 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de0223ab9081909db05334860405e0 completed April 14, 2026, 9 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7a85dfa6881908da90886db4aa1bb completed May 3, 2026, 7:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7a994cd688190a077a4854c5c71c9 completed May 3, 2026, 8:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7aa32b8c8819088bbc9e478c21c06 completed May 3, 2026, 8:04 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:09 p.m.