Triple

T4407532
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Yick Wo v. Hopkins E93770 entity
Predicate plaintiff P660 FINISHED
Object Yick Wo
Yick Wo was a Chinese immigrant in San Francisco whose challenge to discriminatory enforcement of a city ordinance led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Yick Wo v. Hopkins, establishing that laws applied with unequal impact violate the Equal Protection Clause.
E437928 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: Yick Wo | Statement: [Yick Wo v. Hopkins, plaintiff, Yick Wo]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yick Wo
Context triple: [Yick Wo v. Hopkins, plaintiff, Yick Wo]
  • A. Dred Scott
    Dred Scott was an enslaved African American man whose unsuccessful lawsuit for freedom led to the infamous 1857 Supreme Court decision denying citizenship and rights to Black people in the United States.
  • B. Thurgood Jenkins
    Thurgood Jenkins is the bumbling, good-hearted stoner protagonist of the 1998 cannabis comedy film "Half Baked," played by Dave Chappelle.
  • C. William Henry Furman
    William Henry Furman was the defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Furman v. Georgia, which led to a temporary halt of capital punishment nationwide in 1972.
  • D. Homer Plessy
    Homer Plessy was a mixed-race Louisiana shoemaker and civil rights activist best known for challenging racial segregation laws in the landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • E. Thomas Prosser
    Thomas Prosser was a 19th-century British railway architect best known for designing major stations such as York railway station.
  • 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: Yick Wo
Triple: [Yick Wo v. Hopkins, plaintiff, Yick Wo]
Generated description
Yick Wo was a Chinese immigrant in San Francisco whose challenge to discriminatory enforcement of a city ordinance led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Yick Wo v. Hopkins, establishing that laws applied with unequal impact violate the Equal Protection Clause.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yick Wo
Target entity description: Yick Wo was a Chinese immigrant in San Francisco whose challenge to discriminatory enforcement of a city ordinance led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Yick Wo v. Hopkins, establishing that laws applied with unequal impact violate the Equal Protection Clause.
  • A. Dred Scott
    Dred Scott was an enslaved African American man whose unsuccessful lawsuit for freedom led to the infamous 1857 Supreme Court decision denying citizenship and rights to Black people in the United States.
  • B. Thurgood Jenkins
    Thurgood Jenkins is the bumbling, good-hearted stoner protagonist of the 1998 cannabis comedy film "Half Baked," played by Dave Chappelle.
  • C. William Henry Furman
    William Henry Furman was the defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Furman v. Georgia, which led to a temporary halt of capital punishment nationwide in 1972.
  • D. Homer Plessy
    Homer Plessy was a mixed-race Louisiana shoemaker and civil rights activist best known for challenging racial segregation laws in the landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • E. Thomas Prosser
    Thomas Prosser was a 19th-century British railway architect best known for designing major stations such as York railway station.
  • 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_69b345158c748190a2c040fce2da9980 completed March 12, 2026, 10:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3548b1ca08190b3136867c7098d86 completed March 13, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5f609f7f881909d12735f4028a108 completed March 14, 2026, 11:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5f689da008190ae5bd42af1f95bfa completed March 15, 2026, midnight
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5f72f5dac819081f98d835c467aca completed March 15, 2026, 12:02 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:28 p.m.