Triple

T16579231
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States E402794 entity
Predicate party P1790 FINISHED
Object Silverthorne Lumber Company
Silverthorne Lumber Company was a U.S. lumber business best known as the defendant in the landmark Supreme Court case Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States, which helped establish the “fruit of the poisonous tree” doctrine in American criminal procedure.
E1220842 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: Silverthorne Lumber Company | Statement: [Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States, party, Silverthorne Lumber Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Silverthorne Lumber Company
Context triple: [Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States, party, Silverthorne Lumber Company]
  • A. Northern Lumber Company
    Northern Lumber Company was a historic American timber and lumber firm connected to prominent lumber baron Frederick Weyerhaeuser and the broader Upper Midwest logging industry.
  • B. Darby Lumber Company
    Darby Lumber Company was a Georgia lumber manufacturer that served as the private business defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Darby, which expanded federal power under the Commerce Clause.
  • C. Pine Tree Lumber Company
    Pine Tree Lumber Company was a major Midwestern lumber firm in the late 19th and early 20th centuries closely tied to timber magnate Frederick Weyerhaeuser’s expanding wood-products empire.
  • D. Pope & Talbot lumber company
    Pope & Talbot lumber company was a prominent American lumber and shipping firm that operated major sawmills and timber operations in the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia from the 19th century into the late 20th century.
  • E. Mississippi River Logging Company
    The Mississippi River Logging Company was a major 19th-century American lumber enterprise that played a key role in harvesting and transporting timber along the upper Mississippi River.
  • 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: Silverthorne Lumber Company
Triple: [Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States, party, Silverthorne Lumber Company]
Generated description
Silverthorne Lumber Company was a U.S. lumber business best known as the defendant in the landmark Supreme Court case Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States, which helped establish the “fruit of the poisonous tree” doctrine in American criminal procedure.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Silverthorne Lumber Company
Target entity description: Silverthorne Lumber Company was a U.S. lumber business best known as the defendant in the landmark Supreme Court case Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States, which helped establish the “fruit of the poisonous tree” doctrine in American criminal procedure.
  • A. Northern Lumber Company
    Northern Lumber Company was a historic American timber and lumber firm connected to prominent lumber baron Frederick Weyerhaeuser and the broader Upper Midwest logging industry.
  • B. Darby Lumber Company
    Darby Lumber Company was a Georgia lumber manufacturer that served as the private business defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Darby, which expanded federal power under the Commerce Clause.
  • C. Pine Tree Lumber Company
    Pine Tree Lumber Company was a major Midwestern lumber firm in the late 19th and early 20th centuries closely tied to timber magnate Frederick Weyerhaeuser’s expanding wood-products empire.
  • D. Pope & Talbot lumber company
    Pope & Talbot lumber company was a prominent American lumber and shipping firm that operated major sawmills and timber operations in the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia from the 19th century into the late 20th century.
  • E. Mississippi River Logging Company
    The Mississippi River Logging Company was a major 19th-century American lumber enterprise that played a key role in harvesting and transporting timber along the upper Mississippi River.
  • 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_69d88387363c8190a97a0c942130de97 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3595f9be88190b01ba628ecf1103d completed April 18, 2026, 10:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a006eee7e4881908a529717bc449078 completed May 10, 2026, 11:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a006f9043b8819086143b2ec0cf1657 completed May 10, 2026, 11:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00701fc1848190b3248a70b462eab1 completed May 10, 2026, 11:46 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:16 a.m.