Triple

T14741337
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Somerset v Stewart E346353 entity
Predicate hasRelatedCase P3137 FINISHED
Object R v Knowles, ex parte Somersett (alternative citation form)
R v Knowles, ex parte Somersett is an alternative citation for the landmark 1772 English court case that effectively declared slavery unsupported by English common law and led to the freeing of James Somerset.
E346353 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: R v Knowles, ex parte Somersett (alternative citation form) | Statement: [Somerset v Stewart, hasRelatedCase, R v Knowles, ex parte Somersett (alternative citation form)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: R v Knowles, ex parte Somersett (alternative citation form)
Context triple: [Somerset v Stewart, hasRelatedCase, R v Knowles, ex parte Somersett (alternative citation form)]
  • A. Somerset v Stewart
    Somerset v Stewart was a landmark 1772 English court case that effectively declared slavery unsupported by English common law, becoming a pivotal moment in the British abolitionist movement.
  • B. Letters to Lord Mansfield
    Letters to Lord Mansfield is a series of polemical writings by Scottish lawyer Andrew Stuart, in which he sharply criticized Lord Mansfield’s conduct in the Douglas Cause, a famous 18th-century legal dispute.
  • C. R (Jackson) v Attorney General
    R (Jackson) v Attorney General is a landmark 2005 House of Lords case that examined the constitutional validity of legislation enacted under the Parliament Acts and explored fundamental principles about the limits of parliamentary sovereignty and the rule of law in the UK.
  • D. Johnson and Graham’s Lessee
    Johnson and Graham’s Lessee is the named party representing private land claimants in the landmark 1823 U.S. Supreme Court case Johnson v. M’Intosh, which established key principles of American property and Native land rights law.
  • E. R v McIlkenny and others
    R v McIlkenny and others is the criminal case in which the men later known as the Birmingham Six were controversially convicted in 1975 for the Birmingham pub bombings, convictions that were ultimately quashed in 1991.
  • 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: R v Knowles, ex parte Somersett (alternative citation form)
Triple: [Somerset v Stewart, hasRelatedCase, R v Knowles, ex parte Somersett (alternative citation form)]
Generated description
R v Knowles, ex parte Somersett is an alternative citation for the landmark 1772 English court case that effectively declared slavery unsupported by English common law and led to the freeing of James Somerset.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: R v Knowles, ex parte Somersett (alternative citation form)
Target entity description: R v Knowles, ex parte Somersett is an alternative citation for the landmark 1772 English court case that effectively declared slavery unsupported by English common law and led to the freeing of James Somerset.
  • A. Somerset v Stewart chosen
    Somerset v Stewart was a landmark 1772 English court case that effectively declared slavery unsupported by English common law, becoming a pivotal moment in the British abolitionist movement.
  • B. Letters to Lord Mansfield
    Letters to Lord Mansfield is a series of polemical writings by Scottish lawyer Andrew Stuart, in which he sharply criticized Lord Mansfield’s conduct in the Douglas Cause, a famous 18th-century legal dispute.
  • C. R (Jackson) v Attorney General
    R (Jackson) v Attorney General is a landmark 2005 House of Lords case that examined the constitutional validity of legislation enacted under the Parliament Acts and explored fundamental principles about the limits of parliamentary sovereignty and the rule of law in the UK.
  • D. Johnson and Graham’s Lessee
    Johnson and Graham’s Lessee is the named party representing private land claimants in the landmark 1823 U.S. Supreme Court case Johnson v. M’Intosh, which established key principles of American property and Native land rights law.
  • E. R v McIlkenny and others
    R v McIlkenny and others is the criminal case in which the men later known as the Birmingham Six were controversially convicted in 1975 for the Birmingham pub bombings, convictions that were ultimately quashed in 1991.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d822e6f1c88190bc494d491a907114 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dec7345680819093e901233a064e48 completed April 14, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fdfb93e94c8190beba605e26d4552c completed May 8, 2026, 3:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fdff025e00819089ad734f74b64f26 completed May 8, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fdff8bdefc8190a4a66c742e1cae83 completed May 8, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:30 a.m.