Triple

T18172935
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Napster E435076 entity
Predicate notableCourtCase P17092 FINISHED
Object A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc. 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: A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc. | Statement: [Napster, notableCourtCase, A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.
Context triple: [Napster, notableCourtCase, A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.]
  • A. Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc.
    Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc. is a landmark 1991 U.S. copyright case that effectively transformed the legal treatment of digital sampling in hip-hop and popular music by ruling against Biz Markie for unauthorized use of a Gilbert O’Sullivan song.
  • B. Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc.
    Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc. is a landmark U.S. copyright and trademark case in which the Ninth Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Alex Kozinski, held that the song "Barbie Girl" was protected parody and did not infringe Mattel’s rights in the Barbie doll.
  • C. Limelight Networks, Inc. v. Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Limelight Networks, Inc. v. Akamai Technologies, Inc. is a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court patent case that clarified the standards for induced infringement in the context of divided online method patents.
  • D. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. v. Aereo, Inc.
    American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. v. Aereo, Inc. is a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court case that held Aereo’s internet-based television streaming service violated broadcasters’ public performance rights under copyright law.
  • E. United States v. Microsoft Corp.
    United States v. Microsoft Corp. was a major U.S. antitrust lawsuit in the late 1990s and early 2000s that challenged Microsoft's dominance in the personal computer operating systems market, particularly its practices related to bundling Internet Explorer with Windows.
  • 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: A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.
Target entity description: A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc. is a landmark U.S. copyright infringement case in which major record labels successfully sued the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Napster, helping to define the legal limits of online music sharing and digital piracy.
  • A. Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc.
    Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc. is a landmark 1991 U.S. copyright case that effectively transformed the legal treatment of digital sampling in hip-hop and popular music by ruling against Biz Markie for unauthorized use of a Gilbert O’Sullivan song.
  • B. Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc.
    Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc. is a landmark U.S. copyright and trademark case in which the Ninth Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Alex Kozinski, held that the song "Barbie Girl" was protected parody and did not infringe Mattel’s rights in the Barbie doll.
  • C. Limelight Networks, Inc. v. Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Limelight Networks, Inc. v. Akamai Technologies, Inc. is a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court patent case that clarified the standards for induced infringement in the context of divided online method patents.
  • D. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. v. Aereo, Inc.
    American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. v. Aereo, Inc. is a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court case that held Aereo’s internet-based television streaming service violated broadcasters’ public performance rights under copyright law.
  • E. United States v. Microsoft Corp.
    United States v. Microsoft Corp. was a major U.S. antitrust lawsuit in the late 1990s and early 2000s that challenged Microsoft's dominance in the personal computer operating systems market, particularly its practices related to bundling Internet Explorer with Windows.
  • 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_69d8b90b7a188190b3fc7b8d4a6cd20a completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4df56d0a88190af3f407d2a3bb74f completed April 19, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:30 a.m.