Triple

T3981298
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 42 U.S.C. § 1983 E85763 entity
Predicate interpretedBy P1044 FINISHED
Object West v. Atkins, 487 U.S. 42 (1988)
West v. Atkins, 487 U.S. 42 (1988), is a U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that a private physician under contract to provide medical services to state prisoners acts under color of state law for purposes of liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
E403304 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: West v. Atkins, 487 U.S. 42 (1988) | Statement: [42 U.S.C. § 1983, interpretedBy, West v. Atkins, 487 U.S. 42 (1988)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: West v. Atkins, 487 U.S. 42 (1988)
Context triple: [42 U.S.C. § 1983, interpretedBy, West v. Atkins, 487 U.S. 42 (1988)]
  • A. Atkins v. Virginia
    Atkins v. Virginia is a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held executing individuals with intellectual disabilities violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
  • B. Lockett v. Ohio
    Lockett v. Ohio is a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision that significantly expanded the range of mitigating factors a sentencer must be allowed to consider before imposing the death penalty.
  • C. opinion in Atkins v. Virginia
    The opinion in Atkins v. Virginia is a landmark 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision, authored by Justice John Paul Stevens, that held executing individuals with intellectual disabilities violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
  • D. Glossip v. Gross
    Glossip v. Gross is a 2015 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the use of a particular lethal injection drug protocol in executions against Eighth Amendment challenges.
  • E. Skinner v. Oklahoma
    Skinner v. Oklahoma is a landmark 1942 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down a state law mandating the sterilization of certain criminal offenders, recognizing procreation as a fundamental right under the Equal Protection Clause.
  • 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: West v. Atkins, 487 U.S. 42 (1988)
Triple: [42 U.S.C. § 1983, interpretedBy, West v. Atkins, 487 U.S. 42 (1988)]
Generated description
West v. Atkins, 487 U.S. 42 (1988), is a U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that a private physician under contract to provide medical services to state prisoners acts under color of state law for purposes of liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: West v. Atkins, 487 U.S. 42 (1988)
Target entity description: West v. Atkins, 487 U.S. 42 (1988), is a U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that a private physician under contract to provide medical services to state prisoners acts under color of state law for purposes of liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
  • A. Atkins v. Virginia
    Atkins v. Virginia is a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held executing individuals with intellectual disabilities violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
  • B. Lockett v. Ohio
    Lockett v. Ohio is a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision that significantly expanded the range of mitigating factors a sentencer must be allowed to consider before imposing the death penalty.
  • C. opinion in Atkins v. Virginia
    The opinion in Atkins v. Virginia is a landmark 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision, authored by Justice John Paul Stevens, that held executing individuals with intellectual disabilities violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
  • D. Glossip v. Gross
    Glossip v. Gross is a 2015 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the use of a particular lethal injection drug protocol in executions against Eighth Amendment challenges.
  • E. Skinner v. Oklahoma
    Skinner v. Oklahoma is a landmark 1942 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down a state law mandating the sterilization of certain criminal offenders, recognizing procreation as a fundamental right under the Equal Protection Clause.
  • 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.