Triple

T2223956
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Marshall Harlan E48604 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object John Maynard Harlan
John Maynard Harlan was an American lawyer and civic leader in Chicago, known for his work in municipal reform and as the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan.
E342013 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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: John Maynard Harlan | Statement: [John Marshall Harlan, child, John Maynard Harlan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Maynard Harlan
Context triple: [John Marshall Harlan, child, John Maynard Harlan]
  • A. John Marshall Harlan
    John Marshall Harlan was a U.S. Supreme Court justice best known for his powerful lone dissents in civil rights cases, particularly his opposition to racial segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • B. John M. Harlan II
    John M. Harlan II was a prominent mid-20th-century U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his influential opinions on civil rights, due process, and a restrained, precedent-focused approach to constitutional interpretation.
  • C. Justice Owen J. Roberts
    Justice Owen J. Roberts was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1930–1945) known for his pivotal swing votes during the New Deal era.
  • D. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was a long-serving U.S. Supreme Court Justice and influential legal thinker known for his contributions to American common law and free speech jurisprudence.
  • E. Hugo L. Black
    Hugo L. Black was a long-serving U.S. Supreme Court justice known for his strong advocacy of civil liberties and broad interpretation of the Constitution, particularly the First Amendment.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: John Maynard Harlan
Triple: [John Marshall Harlan, child, John Maynard Harlan]
Generated description
John Maynard Harlan was an American lawyer and civic leader in Chicago, known for his work in municipal reform and as the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Maynard Harlan
Target entity description: John Maynard Harlan was an American lawyer and civic leader in Chicago, known for his work in municipal reform and as the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan.
  • A. John Marshall Harlan
    John Marshall Harlan was a U.S. Supreme Court justice best known for his powerful lone dissents in civil rights cases, particularly his opposition to racial segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • B. John M. Harlan II
    John M. Harlan II was a prominent mid-20th-century U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his influential opinions on civil rights, due process, and a restrained, precedent-focused approach to constitutional interpretation.
  • C. Justice Owen J. Roberts
    Justice Owen J. Roberts was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1930–1945) known for his pivotal swing votes during the New Deal era.
  • D. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was a long-serving U.S. Supreme Court Justice and influential legal thinker known for his contributions to American common law and free speech jurisprudence.
  • E. Hugo L. Black
    Hugo L. Black was a long-serving U.S. Supreme Court justice known for his strong advocacy of civil liberties and broad interpretation of the Constitution, particularly the First Amendment.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69a88aa51b388190949868ec9766e587 completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc03ec3788190b5ae32201364f7ab completed March 7, 2026, 6:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b28da24fe88190aabe2bcc520a35dc completed March 12, 2026, 9:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b28f6d8a948190b9aac1b90de472d6 completed March 12, 2026, 10:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2c08b196881908e72596d54ab8873 completed March 12, 2026, 1:32 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.