Triple

T15157191
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Railway Express Agency v. New York E362107 entity
Predicate relatedCase P3137 FINISHED
Object Williamson v. Lee Optical Co.
Williamson v. Lee Optical Co. is a 1955 U.S. Supreme Court case that became a leading precedent for the highly deferential rational basis review of economic regulation under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses.
E1140389 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: Williamson v. Lee Optical Co. | Statement: [Railway Express Agency v. New York, relatedCase, Williamson v. Lee Optical Co.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Williamson v. Lee Optical Co.
Context triple: [Railway Express Agency v. New York, relatedCase, Williamson v. Lee Optical Co.]
  • A. Sibbach v. Wilson & Co.
    Sibbach v. Wilson & Co. is a 1941 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the validity of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure under the Rules Enabling Act and helped define the scope of federal procedural rulemaking.
  • B. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer
    Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer is a landmark 1952 U.S. Supreme Court case that limited presidential power by ruling that President Truman lacked authority to seize steel mills during the Korean War without congressional approval.
  • C. Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. v. Williams
    Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. v. Williams is a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court case that narrowly interpreted the definition of "disability" under the Americans with Disabilities Act, prompting Congress to later broaden that definition through the ADA Amendments Act of 2008.
  • D. District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co.
    District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. is a 1953 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the enforceability of an 1872 D.C. civil rights law prohibiting racial discrimination in restaurants.
  • E. Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting
    Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting is a 2011 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld an Arizona law allowing the state to revoke business licenses of employers who knowingly hire unauthorized immigrants, ruling that it was not preempted by federal immigration law.
  • 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: Williamson v. Lee Optical Co.
Triple: [Railway Express Agency v. New York, relatedCase, Williamson v. Lee Optical Co.]
Generated description
Williamson v. Lee Optical Co. is a 1955 U.S. Supreme Court case that became a leading precedent for the highly deferential rational basis review of economic regulation under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Williamson v. Lee Optical Co.
Target entity description: Williamson v. Lee Optical Co. is a 1955 U.S. Supreme Court case that became a leading precedent for the highly deferential rational basis review of economic regulation under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses.
  • A. Sibbach v. Wilson & Co.
    Sibbach v. Wilson & Co. is a 1941 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the validity of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure under the Rules Enabling Act and helped define the scope of federal procedural rulemaking.
  • B. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer
    Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer is a landmark 1952 U.S. Supreme Court case that limited presidential power by ruling that President Truman lacked authority to seize steel mills during the Korean War without congressional approval.
  • C. Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. v. Williams
    Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. v. Williams is a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court case that narrowly interpreted the definition of "disability" under the Americans with Disabilities Act, prompting Congress to later broaden that definition through the ADA Amendments Act of 2008.
  • D. District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co.
    District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. is a 1953 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the enforceability of an 1872 D.C. civil rights law prohibiting racial discrimination in restaurants.
  • E. Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting
    Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting is a 2011 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld an Arizona law allowing the state to revoke business licenses of employers who knowingly hire unauthorized immigrants, ruling that it was not preempted by federal immigration 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_69d85a0759908190b8a051d2e2a1cbe6 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e0060c62b08190bcdbd912d011d1ba completed April 15, 2026, 9:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69febff87b6c819097f5cc99b2d75fb6 completed May 9, 2026, 5:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fec1c2ce5c81909e2df69e4cf80344 completed May 9, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fec25d50548190a056d6bb1297e780 completed May 9, 2026, 5:13 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:08 a.m.