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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.