Triple

T2265426
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Samuel Nelson E50131 entity
Predicate precededInOfficeBy P2999 FINISHED
Object Smith Thompson (as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court)
Smith Thompson was a 19th-century American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court after previously holding positions such as U.S. Secretary of the Navy and Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court.
E251556 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: Smith Thompson (as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) | Statement: [Samuel Nelson, precededInOfficeBy, Smith Thompson (as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Smith Thompson (as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court)
Context triple: [Samuel Nelson, precededInOfficeBy, Smith Thompson (as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court)]
  • A. Edward T. Sanford (on the U.S. Supreme Court)
    Edward T. Sanford was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by President Warren G. Harding and serving from 1923 until his death in 1930.
  • B. Potter Stewart
    Potter Stewart was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, known for his influential opinions on civil liberties, criminal justice, and obscenity law during the mid-20th century.
  • C. Lewis F. Powell Jr.
    Lewis F. Powell Jr. was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1972–1987) known as a pivotal moderate whose swing votes shaped landmark decisions on issues such as abortion, affirmative action, and the death penalty.
  • D. Justice George Sutherland
    Justice George Sutherland was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his conservative jurisprudence and influential role in the Court’s early 20th-century decisions limiting federal power.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Smith Thompson (as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court)
Triple: [Samuel Nelson, precededInOfficeBy, Smith Thompson (as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court)]
Generated description
Smith Thompson was a 19th-century American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court after previously holding positions such as U.S. Secretary of the Navy and Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Smith Thompson (as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court)
Target entity description: Smith Thompson was a 19th-century American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court after previously holding positions such as U.S. Secretary of the Navy and Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court.
  • A. Edward T. Sanford (on the U.S. Supreme Court)
    Edward T. Sanford was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by President Warren G. Harding and serving from 1923 until his death in 1930.
  • B. Potter Stewart
    Potter Stewart was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, known for his influential opinions on civil liberties, criminal justice, and obscenity law during the mid-20th century.
  • C. Lewis F. Powell Jr.
    Lewis F. Powell Jr. was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1972–1987) known as a pivotal moderate whose swing votes shaped landmark decisions on issues such as abortion, affirmative action, and the death penalty.
  • D. Justice George Sutherland
    Justice George Sutherland was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his conservative jurisprudence and influential role in the Court’s early 20th-century decisions limiting federal power.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69a88b01e0048190ba96431b5f990ba9 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc18fff0c8190acd73d8db8a41cff completed March 7, 2026, 6:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae71d243608190bbfe5784fa06e26b completed March 9, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae728e46608190b4192519c705bc32 completed March 9, 2026, 7:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae72ff572081909b7c4aebb9e26180 completed March 9, 2026, 7:13 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:48 p.m.