Triple

T22090958
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Marshall E545909 entity
Predicate portraysEvent P6686 FINISHED
Object State of Connecticut v. Joseph Spell 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: State of Connecticut v. Joseph Spell | Statement: [Marshall, portraysEvent, State of Connecticut v. Joseph Spell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: State of Connecticut v. Joseph Spell
Context triple: [Marshall, portraysEvent, State of Connecticut v. Joseph Spell]
  • A. Palko v. Connecticut
    Palko v. Connecticut is a 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case that helped define the doctrine of selective incorporation by holding that only certain fundamental rights in the Bill of Rights apply to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.
  • B. Spinelli v. United States
    Spinelli v. United States is a 1969 U.S. Supreme Court decision that refined the standards for evaluating probable cause based on informants’ tips under the Fourth Amendment, later modified by the more flexible totality-of-the-circumstances test in Illinois v. Gates.
  • C. Apprendi v. New Jersey
    Apprendi v. New Jersey is a landmark 2000 U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that any fact (other than a prior conviction) that increases a criminal defendant’s sentence beyond the statutory maximum must be submitted to a jury and proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
  • D. United States v. Comstock
    United States v. Comstock is a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld Congress’s authority to civilly commit mentally ill, sexually dangerous federal prisoners beyond their release date under the Constitution’s Necessary and Proper Clause.
  • E. Murdock v. Pennsylvania
    Murdock v. Pennsylvania is a 1943 U.S. Supreme Court case that held it unconstitutional to impose a license tax on the distribution of religious literature, reinforcing First Amendment protections for religious proselytizing.
  • 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: State of Connecticut v. Joseph Spell
Target entity description: State of Connecticut v. Joseph Spell was a 1941 criminal case in which a Black chauffeur was accused of raping his white employer in Connecticut, later famously defended by Thurgood Marshall and dramatized in the film "Marshall."
  • A. Palko v. Connecticut
    Palko v. Connecticut is a 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case that helped define the doctrine of selective incorporation by holding that only certain fundamental rights in the Bill of Rights apply to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.
  • B. Spinelli v. United States
    Spinelli v. United States is a 1969 U.S. Supreme Court decision that refined the standards for evaluating probable cause based on informants’ tips under the Fourth Amendment, later modified by the more flexible totality-of-the-circumstances test in Illinois v. Gates.
  • C. Apprendi v. New Jersey
    Apprendi v. New Jersey is a landmark 2000 U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that any fact (other than a prior conviction) that increases a criminal defendant’s sentence beyond the statutory maximum must be submitted to a jury and proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
  • D. United States v. Comstock
    United States v. Comstock is a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld Congress’s authority to civilly commit mentally ill, sexually dangerous federal prisoners beyond their release date under the Constitution’s Necessary and Proper Clause.
  • E. Murdock v. Pennsylvania
    Murdock v. Pennsylvania is a 1943 U.S. Supreme Court case that held it unconstitutional to impose a license tax on the distribution of religious literature, reinforcing First Amendment protections for religious proselytizing.
  • 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_69e11e36d03c8190a83a1ba802b7231b completed April 16, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f128e53dfc81909858cdad8b09c5fb completed April 28, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:29 p.m.