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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.