Triple

T4605181
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co. E100413 entity
Predicate judge P3169 FINISHED
Object Cuthbert W. Pound
Cuthbert W. Pound was an American jurist who served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals and was influential in the development of modern tort law.
E456038 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: Cuthbert W. Pound | Statement: [MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., judge, Cuthbert W. Pound]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cuthbert W. Pound
Context triple: [MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., judge, Cuthbert W. Pound]
  • A. Roscoe Pound
    Roscoe Pound was an influential American legal scholar and educator, best known for developing the theory of sociological jurisprudence and serving as dean of Harvard Law School.
  • B. Christopher Columbus Langdell
    Christopher Columbus Langdell was a 19th-century American legal scholar and dean of Harvard Law School who pioneered the case method of legal education.
  • C. Clarence Irving Lewis
    Clarence Irving Lewis was an influential American philosopher and logician known for his work on modal logic, pragmatism, and the theory of knowledge.
  • D. Omar Pound
    Omar Pound was an American-born writer, editor, and teacher of literature and Islamic studies, known both for his own scholarly work and as the son of poet Ezra Pound.
  • E. James M. Landis
    James M. Landis was an influential American lawyer, legal scholar, and New Deal administrator who helped shape U.S. securities regulation and public administration in the mid-20th century.
  • 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: Cuthbert W. Pound
Triple: [MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., judge, Cuthbert W. Pound]
Generated description
Cuthbert W. Pound was an American jurist who served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals and was influential in the development of modern tort law.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cuthbert W. Pound
Target entity description: Cuthbert W. Pound was an American jurist who served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals and was influential in the development of modern tort law.
  • A. Roscoe Pound
    Roscoe Pound was an influential American legal scholar and educator, best known for developing the theory of sociological jurisprudence and serving as dean of Harvard Law School.
  • B. Christopher Columbus Langdell
    Christopher Columbus Langdell was a 19th-century American legal scholar and dean of Harvard Law School who pioneered the case method of legal education.
  • C. Clarence Irving Lewis
    Clarence Irving Lewis was an influential American philosopher and logician known for his work on modal logic, pragmatism, and the theory of knowledge.
  • D. Omar Pound
    Omar Pound was an American-born writer, editor, and teacher of literature and Islamic studies, known both for his own scholarly work and as the son of poet Ezra Pound.
  • E. James M. Landis
    James M. Landis was an influential American lawyer, legal scholar, and New Deal administrator who helped shape U.S. securities regulation and public administration in the mid-20th century.
  • 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.