Triple

T14337067
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts E355491 entity
Predicate associatedWithPerson P37 FINISHED
Object Christopher Columbus Langdell E71908 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Christopher Columbus Langdell | Statement: [A Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts, associatedWithPerson, Christopher Columbus Langdell]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Christopher Columbus Langdell
Context triple: [A Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts, associatedWithPerson, Christopher Columbus Langdell]
  • A. Christopher Columbus Langdell chosen
    Christopher Columbus Langdell was a 19th-century American legal scholar and dean of Harvard Law School who pioneered the case method of legal education.
  • B. Cuthbert W. Pound
    Cuthbert W. Pound was an American jurist who served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals and was influential in the development of modern tort law.
  • C. William P. Frye
    William P. Frye was an American politician and long-serving U.S. Senator from Maine who played a prominent role in late 19th- and early 20th-century national politics.
  • D. William Dummer Powell
    William Dummer Powell was a prominent early Canadian jurist who served as Chief Justice of Upper Canada in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • E. John Henry Boalt
    John Henry Boalt was a 19th-century American lawyer and judge in California whose name later became controversial due to his openly racist views, prompting modern efforts to remove his name from institutions.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d8278fa2108190bc0d0e7939c1eb03 elicitation completed
NER batch_69de8c2241e48190a0c626b3d741966a ner completed
NED1 batch_69fd5bbb672c8190b25f7046500c56e2 ned_source_triple completed
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:14 a.m.