Triple

T3830422
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Romer v. Evans E90996 entity
Predicate holding P2237 FINISHED
Object Colorado Amendment 2 violates the Equal Protection Clause
Colorado Amendment 2 violates the Equal Protection Clause is the central constitutional holding in Romer v. Evans, where the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Colorado measure that barred legal protections for gay, lesbian, and bisexual people.
E390637 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: Colorado Amendment 2 violates the Equal Protection Clause | Statement: [Romer v. Evans, holding, Colorado Amendment 2 violates the Equal Protection Clause]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colorado Amendment 2 violates the Equal Protection Clause
Context triple: [Romer v. Evans, holding, Colorado Amendment 2 violates the Equal Protection Clause]
  • A. Colorado Department of State v. Baca
    Colorado Department of State v. Baca is a U.S. federal court case addressing whether states can remove or sanction presidential electors who refuse to vote in accordance with their state's popular vote in the Electoral College.
  • B. Wolf v. Colorado
    Wolf v. Colorado was a 1949 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held the Fourth Amendment’s exclusionary rule did not apply to the states, a position later reversed by Mapp v. Ohio.
  • C. Equal Protection Clause
    The Equal Protection Clause is a key constitutional provision that prohibits states from denying any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, forming the basis for many landmark civil rights decisions in the United States.
  • D. Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission
    Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission is a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled, on narrow grounds, that Colorado officials had shown unconstitutional hostility toward a baker’s religious beliefs when enforcing anti-discrimination laws against his refusal to create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
  • E. City of Boerne v. Flores
    City of Boerne v. Flores is a 1997 U.S. Supreme Court case that curtailed Congress’s power under the Fourteenth Amendment and held that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act could not be applied to the states.
  • 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: Colorado Amendment 2 violates the Equal Protection Clause
Triple: [Romer v. Evans, holding, Colorado Amendment 2 violates the Equal Protection Clause]
Generated description
Colorado Amendment 2 violates the Equal Protection Clause is the central constitutional holding in Romer v. Evans, where the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Colorado measure that barred legal protections for gay, lesbian, and bisexual people.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colorado Amendment 2 violates the Equal Protection Clause
Target entity description: Colorado Amendment 2 violates the Equal Protection Clause is the central constitutional holding in Romer v. Evans, where the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Colorado measure that barred legal protections for gay, lesbian, and bisexual people.
  • A. Colorado Department of State v. Baca
    Colorado Department of State v. Baca is a U.S. federal court case addressing whether states can remove or sanction presidential electors who refuse to vote in accordance with their state's popular vote in the Electoral College.
  • B. Wolf v. Colorado
    Wolf v. Colorado was a 1949 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held the Fourth Amendment’s exclusionary rule did not apply to the states, a position later reversed by Mapp v. Ohio.
  • C. Equal Protection Clause
    The Equal Protection Clause is a key constitutional provision that prohibits states from denying any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, forming the basis for many landmark civil rights decisions in the United States.
  • D. Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission
    Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission is a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled, on narrow grounds, that Colorado officials had shown unconstitutional hostility toward a baker’s religious beliefs when enforcing anti-discrimination laws against his refusal to create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
  • E. City of Boerne v. Flores
    City of Boerne v. Flores is a 1997 U.S. Supreme Court case that curtailed Congress’s power under the Fourteenth Amendment and held that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act could not be applied to the states.
  • 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_69aed960b538819096561c8ed448dec9 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeeb8459f881908a2c91bb07e381ef completed March 9, 2026, 3:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4fb5628c481909c3b5ac59473a9cc completed March 14, 2026, 6:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4fc08d65081908953482b10fa5611 completed March 14, 2026, 6:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4fc7d8cf081909c4447818b5363c5 completed March 14, 2026, 6:13 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:17 p.m.