Triple

T18654982
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Helen Palsgraf E456036 entity
Predicate injuredIn P58567 FINISHED
Object Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. — NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. | Statement: [Helen Palsgraf, injuredIn, Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co.
Context triple: [Helen Palsgraf, injuredIn, Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co.]
  • A. Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. chosen
    Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. is a landmark 1928 New York Court of Appeals case, authored by Judge Benjamin Cardozo, that established the modern American doctrine of proximate cause and foreseeability in negligence law.
  • B. Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins
    Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins is a landmark 1938 U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended the practice of federal general common law and required federal courts in diversity cases to apply state substantive law.
  • C. New York Central Railroad Co. v. Winfield
    New York Central Railroad Co. v. Winfield is a 1917 U.S. Supreme Court decision that clarified the scope of federal authority over railroad worker injury claims under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, limiting the application of state workers’ compensation laws in such cases.
  • D. Norman v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.
    Norman v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. is a 1935 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the federal government's power to invalidate gold clauses in contracts and affirmed broad congressional authority over monetary policy under the Coinage Clause.
  • E. United States v. Carroll Towing Co.
    United States v. Carroll Towing Co. is a landmark 1947 U.S. federal court case famous for Judge Learned Hand’s formulation of the “Hand formula” for determining negligence in tort law.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

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_69d8d38ea1e88190997e9b231190ba6f completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e55084012881909b9dd60565011c86 completed April 19, 2026, 10 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:47 a.m.