Triple
T18654990
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Helen Palsgraf |
E456036
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entity |
| Predicate | caseCitation |
P771
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FINISHED |
| Object | Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co., 248 N.Y. 339 (1928) |
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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 R.R. Co., 248 N.Y. 339 (1928) | Statement: [Helen Palsgraf, caseCitation, Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co., 248 N.Y. 339 (1928)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co., 248 N.Y. 339 (1928) Context triple: [Helen Palsgraf, caseCitation, Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co., 248 N.Y. 339 (1928)]
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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.
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B.
Railway Express Agency v. New York
Railway Express Agency v. New York is a 1949 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld a New York City traffic regulation restricting advertising on vehicles against an Equal Protection Clause challenge.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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E.
Robinson v. Memphis & Charleston Railroad Company
Robinson v. Memphis & Charleston Railroad Company was one of the 1883 U.S. Supreme Court decisions collectively known as the Civil Rights Cases, which limited federal enforcement of civil rights protections against private discrimination.
- 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.