Triple

T16151461
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney E391917 entity
Predicate challengedLaw P10247 FINISHED
Object Massachusetts veterans’ preference statute for civil service positions
The Massachusetts veterans’ preference statute for civil service positions was a state law that gave hiring priority to military veterans for public jobs, ultimately challenged as discriminatory against women in the U.S. Supreme Court case Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney.
E391917 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: Massachusetts veterans’ preference statute for civil service positions | Statement: [Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney, challengedLaw, Massachusetts veterans’ preference statute for civil service positions]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Massachusetts veterans’ preference statute for civil service positions
Context triple: [Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney, challengedLaw, Massachusetts veterans’ preference statute for civil service positions]
  • A. Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney
    Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney is a 1979 U.S. Supreme Court case that clarified the standard for proving unconstitutional sex discrimination by requiring a showing of discriminatory intent rather than merely discriminatory impact.
  • B. Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
    The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service was a 1933 Nazi statute that purged Jews and political opponents from Germany’s civil service, marking an early legal step in the regime’s systematic persecution and exclusion policies.
  • C. United States veterans benefits legislation
    United States veterans benefits legislation comprises federal laws that provide and regulate compensation, healthcare, education, housing, and other support services for military veterans and their families.
  • D. Veterans’ Judicial Review Act
    The Veterans’ Judicial Review Act is a landmark 1988 U.S. law that first granted veterans the right to judicial review of Department of Veterans Affairs benefits decisions by creating an independent federal court system for their appeals.
  • E. Massachusetts state veterans homes system
    The Massachusetts state veterans homes system is a network of state-run long-term care and residential facilities that provide medical, nursing, and supportive services to eligible military veterans in Massachusetts.
  • 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: Massachusetts veterans’ preference statute for civil service positions
Triple: [Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney, challengedLaw, Massachusetts veterans’ preference statute for civil service positions]
Generated description
The Massachusetts veterans’ preference statute for civil service positions was a state law that gave hiring priority to military veterans for public jobs, ultimately challenged as discriminatory against women in the U.S. Supreme Court case Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Massachusetts veterans’ preference statute for civil service positions
Target entity description: The Massachusetts veterans’ preference statute for civil service positions was a state law that gave hiring priority to military veterans for public jobs, ultimately challenged as discriminatory against women in the U.S. Supreme Court case Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney.
  • A. Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney chosen
    Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts v. Feeney is a 1979 U.S. Supreme Court case that clarified the standard for proving unconstitutional sex discrimination by requiring a showing of discriminatory intent rather than merely discriminatory impact.
  • B. Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
    The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service was a 1933 Nazi statute that purged Jews and political opponents from Germany’s civil service, marking an early legal step in the regime’s systematic persecution and exclusion policies.
  • C. United States veterans benefits legislation
    United States veterans benefits legislation comprises federal laws that provide and regulate compensation, healthcare, education, housing, and other support services for military veterans and their families.
  • D. Veterans’ Judicial Review Act
    The Veterans’ Judicial Review Act is a landmark 1988 U.S. law that first granted veterans the right to judicial review of Department of Veterans Affairs benefits decisions by creating an independent federal court system for their appeals.
  • E. Massachusetts state veterans homes system
    The Massachusetts state veterans homes system is a network of state-run long-term care and residential facilities that provide medical, nursing, and supportive services to eligible military veterans in Massachusetts.
  • 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_69d87f1c65e48190aa2b4c472e9bafc4 completed April 10, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e21d981950819087fdacc7879dca97 completed April 17, 2026, 11:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fff7a9ebf08190aa21cdff051f4ba2 completed May 10, 2026, 3:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fff86a556c819096bc008e1ca76e8c completed May 10, 2026, 3:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fff926120081909f1042bf3a16ea10 completed May 10, 2026, 3:19 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:01 a.m.