Triple

T15885640
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Marshall Court E385185 entity
Predicate significantCase P4528 FINISHED
Object Sturges v. Crowninshield
Sturges v. Crowninshield was an 1819 U.S. Supreme Court decision that limited state power over bankruptcy laws by holding that state insolvency statutes could not retroactively discharge debts.
E1181145 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: Sturges v. Crowninshield | Statement: [Marshall Court, significantCase, Sturges v. Crowninshield]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sturges v. Crowninshield
Context triple: [Marshall Court, significantCase, Sturges v. Crowninshield]
  • A. Calder v. Bull
    Calder v. Bull is an 1798 U.S. Supreme Court decision that defined the limited scope of the Constitution’s Ex Post Facto Clause, holding that it applies only to criminal, not civil, laws.
  • B. Strader v. Graham
    Strader v. Graham was an 1851 U.S. Supreme Court case that limited the reach of free-state laws over enslaved people who had traveled into free territory, foreshadowing the reasoning later used in Dred Scott v. Sandford.
  • C. Shaw v. Hunt
    Shaw v. Hunt is a 1996 U.S. Supreme Court case that further developed the Court’s racial gerrymandering jurisprudence by applying and extending the principles first articulated in Shaw v. Reno.
  • D. Downes v. Bidwell
    Downes v. Bidwell is a 1901 U.S. Supreme Court case that helped establish the "Insular Cases" doctrine, holding that full constitutional rights do not automatically extend to all territories under American control.
  • E. Briggs v. Elliott
    Briggs v. Elliott was a landmark federal court case from South Carolina challenging racial segregation in public schools, and it became one of the key cases consolidated into Brown v. Board of Education.
  • 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: Sturges v. Crowninshield
Triple: [Marshall Court, significantCase, Sturges v. Crowninshield]
Generated description
Sturges v. Crowninshield was an 1819 U.S. Supreme Court decision that limited state power over bankruptcy laws by holding that state insolvency statutes could not retroactively discharge debts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sturges v. Crowninshield
Target entity description: Sturges v. Crowninshield was an 1819 U.S. Supreme Court decision that limited state power over bankruptcy laws by holding that state insolvency statutes could not retroactively discharge debts.
  • A. Calder v. Bull
    Calder v. Bull is an 1798 U.S. Supreme Court decision that defined the limited scope of the Constitution’s Ex Post Facto Clause, holding that it applies only to criminal, not civil, laws.
  • B. Strader v. Graham
    Strader v. Graham was an 1851 U.S. Supreme Court case that limited the reach of free-state laws over enslaved people who had traveled into free territory, foreshadowing the reasoning later used in Dred Scott v. Sandford.
  • C. Shaw v. Hunt
    Shaw v. Hunt is a 1996 U.S. Supreme Court case that further developed the Court’s racial gerrymandering jurisprudence by applying and extending the principles first articulated in Shaw v. Reno.
  • D. Downes v. Bidwell
    Downes v. Bidwell is a 1901 U.S. Supreme Court case that helped establish the "Insular Cases" doctrine, holding that full constitutional rights do not automatically extend to all territories under American control.
  • E. Briggs v. Elliott
    Briggs v. Elliott was a landmark federal court case from South Carolina challenging racial segregation in public schools, and it became one of the key cases consolidated into Brown v. Board of Education.
  • 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_69d86da5b800819083a31be937d738b0 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e1561a68d8819099e60e2f1f0db07a completed April 16, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffa95651f88190a9aac72a667b999f completed May 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffaa07df788190bae67f3d9a800331 completed May 9, 2026, 9:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffaaa92a648190a09829ef3197223c completed May 9, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:51 a.m.