Triple

T2538923
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Roger B. Taney Court E56335 entity
Predicate notableCase P4 FINISHED
Object Ex parte Merryman
Ex parte Merryman was an 1861 U.S. federal court case in which Chief Justice Roger B. Taney challenged President Abraham Lincoln’s authority to suspend the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War.
E276818 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: Ex parte Merryman | Statement: [Roger B. Taney Court, notableCase, Ex parte Merryman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ex parte Merryman
Context triple: [Roger B. Taney Court, notableCase, Ex parte Merryman]
  • A. United States v. Cruikshank
    United States v. Cruikshank was an 1876 U.S. Supreme Court decision that severely limited federal enforcement of civil rights protections, especially against racially motivated violence in the Reconstruction-era South.
  • B. Paul v. Virginia
    Paul v. Virginia is an 1869 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held corporations are not “citizens” under the Constitution’s Privileges and Immunities Clause, allowing states to regulate foreign insurance companies.
  • C. Morgan v. Virginia
    Morgan v. Virginia was a 1946 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down state laws mandating racial segregation on interstate buses, laying important groundwork for later civil rights actions.
  • D. Ableman v. Booth
    Ableman v. Booth was an 1859 U.S. Supreme Court case that affirmed federal supremacy over state courts in enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act before the Civil War.
  • E. Dissent in the Prize Cases (1863)
    Dissent in the Prize Cases (1863) is a notable Supreme Court opinion in which Justice Samuel Nelson argued against the majority’s validation of President Lincoln’s Civil War blockade powers.
  • 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: Ex parte Merryman
Triple: [Roger B. Taney Court, notableCase, Ex parte Merryman]
Generated description
Ex parte Merryman was an 1861 U.S. federal court case in which Chief Justice Roger B. Taney challenged President Abraham Lincoln’s authority to suspend the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ex parte Merryman
Target entity description: Ex parte Merryman was an 1861 U.S. federal court case in which Chief Justice Roger B. Taney challenged President Abraham Lincoln’s authority to suspend the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War.
  • A. United States v. Cruikshank
    United States v. Cruikshank was an 1876 U.S. Supreme Court decision that severely limited federal enforcement of civil rights protections, especially against racially motivated violence in the Reconstruction-era South.
  • B. Paul v. Virginia
    Paul v. Virginia is an 1869 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held corporations are not “citizens” under the Constitution’s Privileges and Immunities Clause, allowing states to regulate foreign insurance companies.
  • C. Morgan v. Virginia
    Morgan v. Virginia was a 1946 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down state laws mandating racial segregation on interstate buses, laying important groundwork for later civil rights actions.
  • D. Ableman v. Booth
    Ableman v. Booth was an 1859 U.S. Supreme Court case that affirmed federal supremacy over state courts in enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act before the Civil War.
  • E. Dissent in the Prize Cases (1863)
    Dissent in the Prize Cases (1863) is a notable Supreme Court opinion in which Justice Samuel Nelson argued against the majority’s validation of President Lincoln’s Civil War blockade powers.
  • 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_69ab4a49b6508190bc467fbef4bac334 completed March 6, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd29b44448190ba4f82b0c1425f21 completed March 7, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af5cfc54cc8190bb43b54f873ffa63 completed March 9, 2026, 11:51 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af5dd89fe48190a99b2bea591818cd completed March 9, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af5e8583408190862ba4e13bf81cbd completed March 9, 2026, 11:57 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.