Triple

T3981296
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 42 U.S.C. § 1983 E85763 entity
Predicate interpretedBy P1044 FINISHED
Object Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978)
Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978), is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that established when local governments can be sued as “persons” for constitutional violations under federal civil rights law.
E403302 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: Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978) | Statement: [42 U.S.C. § 1983, interpretedBy, Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978)
Context triple: [42 U.S.C. § 1983, interpretedBy, Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978)]
  • A. Frontiero v. Richardson
    Frontiero v. Richardson is a landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case that advanced gender equality by striking down federal benefit rules that discriminated against female military service members.
  • B. McDonald v. Smith
    McDonald v. Smith is a 1985 U.S. Supreme Court case that held the First Amendment’s Petition Clause does not grant absolute immunity from libel suits for statements made in petitions to government officials.
  • C. South Dakota v. Dole
    South Dakota v. Dole is a 1987 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld Congress’s power to condition federal highway funds on states adopting a minimum drinking age of 21, helping define the scope of the federal spending power.
  • D. Katzenbach v. Morgan
    Katzenbach v. Morgan is a 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld Congress’s power under the Fourteenth Amendment to prohibit certain state voting restrictions, reinforcing federal authority to protect voting rights.
  • E. National League of Cities v. Usery
    National League of Cities v. Usery was a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court case that temporarily limited Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause by holding that federal wage and hour regulations could not be applied to traditional state government functions.
  • 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: Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978)
Triple: [42 U.S.C. § 1983, interpretedBy, Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978)]
Generated description
Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978), is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that established when local governments can be sued as “persons” for constitutional violations under federal civil rights law.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978)
Target entity description: Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978), is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that established when local governments can be sued as “persons” for constitutional violations under federal civil rights law.
  • A. Frontiero v. Richardson
    Frontiero v. Richardson is a landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case that advanced gender equality by striking down federal benefit rules that discriminated against female military service members.
  • B. McDonald v. Smith
    McDonald v. Smith is a 1985 U.S. Supreme Court case that held the First Amendment’s Petition Clause does not grant absolute immunity from libel suits for statements made in petitions to government officials.
  • C. South Dakota v. Dole
    South Dakota v. Dole is a 1987 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld Congress’s power to condition federal highway funds on states adopting a minimum drinking age of 21, helping define the scope of the federal spending power.
  • D. Katzenbach v. Morgan
    Katzenbach v. Morgan is a 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld Congress’s power under the Fourteenth Amendment to prohibit certain state voting restrictions, reinforcing federal authority to protect voting rights.
  • E. National League of Cities v. Usery
    National League of Cities v. Usery was a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court case that temporarily limited Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause by holding that federal wage and hour regulations could not be applied to traditional state government functions.
  • 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_69aed93908348190a26c8aaf4fab3e86 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aef9db804c8190ad96656cb7b1a4fe completed March 9, 2026, 4:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b54021ae388190a9518ea85b760736 completed March 14, 2026, 11:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b541340dbc819081538517267f390f completed March 14, 2026, 11:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b54193105c81909e2a4e368aae36e8 completed March 14, 2026, 11:08 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:33 p.m.