Triple

T4605111
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. E100412 entity
Predicate plaintiff P660 FINISHED
Object Helen Palsgraf
Helen Palsgraf was the injured passenger at the center of the landmark 1928 New York tort law case that reshaped the doctrine of proximate cause in American negligence jurisprudence.
E456036 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: Helen Palsgraf | Statement: [Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., plaintiff, Helen Palsgraf]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Helen Palsgraf
Context triple: [Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., plaintiff, Helen Palsgraf]
  • A. Dollree Mapp
    Dollree Mapp was the Cleveland woman whose challenge to an unlawful police search led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Mapp v. Ohio, which applied the exclusionary rule to the states.
  • B. Isabel Sanford
    Isabel Sanford was an American actress best known for her Emmy-winning role as Louise "Weezy" Jefferson on the groundbreaking sitcom The Jeffersons.
  • C. Christine Grady
    Christine Grady is an American nurse-bioethicist who heads the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and is known for her work on clinical research ethics.
  • D. Mary Corey
    Mary Corey was a woman from colonial Salem, Massachusetts, remembered primarily as one of the victims associated with the Salem witch trials era.
  • E. Ellen Harding Casey
    Ellen Harding Casey was the wife of former Pennsylvania governor Robert P. Casey and served as the state's First Lady, known for her involvement in public and charitable activities.
  • 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: Helen Palsgraf
Triple: [Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., plaintiff, Helen Palsgraf]
Generated description
Helen Palsgraf was the injured passenger at the center of the landmark 1928 New York tort law case that reshaped the doctrine of proximate cause in American negligence jurisprudence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Helen Palsgraf
Target entity description: Helen Palsgraf was the injured passenger at the center of the landmark 1928 New York tort law case that reshaped the doctrine of proximate cause in American negligence jurisprudence.
  • A. Dollree Mapp
    Dollree Mapp was the Cleveland woman whose challenge to an unlawful police search led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Mapp v. Ohio, which applied the exclusionary rule to the states.
  • B. Isabel Sanford
    Isabel Sanford was an American actress best known for her Emmy-winning role as Louise "Weezy" Jefferson on the groundbreaking sitcom The Jeffersons.
  • C. Christine Grady
    Christine Grady is an American nurse-bioethicist who heads the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and is known for her work on clinical research ethics.
  • D. Mary Corey
    Mary Corey was a woman from colonial Salem, Massachusetts, remembered primarily as one of the victims associated with the Salem witch trials era.
  • E. Ellen Harding Casey
    Ellen Harding Casey was the wife of former Pennsylvania governor Robert P. Casey and served as the state's First Lady, known for her involvement in public and charitable activities.
  • 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_69bd43cce1e08190a07d53af6a9b6c24 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd5999f9c88190a43309573df61159 completed March 20, 2026, 2:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdfa6d24808190a4edc426b8b719cd completed March 21, 2026, 1:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdfbea628c81908f96e706d650ef9f completed March 21, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdfc97fc54819093e0cff18a40bde2 completed March 21, 2026, 2:04 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:12 p.m.