Triple

T17480225
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti E425635 entity
Predicate holding P2237 FINISHED
Object The First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting corporate independent expenditures related to ballot initiatives based on the corporate identity of the speaker. NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: The First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting corporate independent expenditures related to ballot initiatives based on the corporate identity of the speaker. | Statement: [First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, holding, The First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting corporate independent expenditures related to ballot initiatives based on the corporate identity of the speaker.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting corporate independent expenditures related to ballot initiatives based on the corporate identity of the speaker.
Context triple: [First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, holding, The First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting corporate independent expenditures related to ballot initiatives based on the corporate identity of the speaker.]
  • A. United States federal campaign finance law
    United States federal campaign finance law is the body of statutes and regulations that governs how money is raised and spent in federal elections, including rules on contributions, disclosures, and political spending by individuals, parties, and organizations.
  • B. McConnell v. Federal Election Commission
    McConnell v. Federal Election Commission is a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court case that largely upheld the constitutionality of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (McCain–Feingold Act), significantly shaping modern campaign finance law.
  • C. Incorporation doctrine
    The Incorporation doctrine is a constitutional principle through which most protections in the U.S. Bill of Rights have been made enforceable against state governments via the Fourteenth Amendment.
  • D. Buckley v. Valeo
    Buckley v. Valeo is a landmark 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision that reshaped campaign finance law by equating certain limits on political spending with restrictions on free speech under the First Amendment.
  • E. McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission
    McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission is a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down aggregate limits on individual contributions to federal political campaigns as a violation of the First Amendment.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting corporate independent expenditures related to ballot initiatives based on the corporate identity of the speaker.
Target entity description: This entity is a constitutional law principle, established in First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, recognizing that corporations have First Amendment protection to spend independently on ballot initiatives regardless of their corporate status.
  • A. United States federal campaign finance law
    United States federal campaign finance law is the body of statutes and regulations that governs how money is raised and spent in federal elections, including rules on contributions, disclosures, and political spending by individuals, parties, and organizations.
  • B. McConnell v. Federal Election Commission
    McConnell v. Federal Election Commission is a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court case that largely upheld the constitutionality of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (McCain–Feingold Act), significantly shaping modern campaign finance law.
  • C. Incorporation doctrine
    The Incorporation doctrine is a constitutional principle through which most protections in the U.S. Bill of Rights have been made enforceable against state governments via the Fourteenth Amendment.
  • D. Buckley v. Valeo
    Buckley v. Valeo is a landmark 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision that reshaped campaign finance law by equating certain limits on political spending with restrictions on free speech under the First Amendment.
  • E. McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission
    McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission is a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down aggregate limits on individual contributions to federal political campaigns as a violation of the First Amendment.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 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_69d889dbc2e88190b18ea6115e819258 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e451bf1e8081909f4d4b8992412e62 completed April 19, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:48 a.m.