Triple

T4981632
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kivalina E111898 entity
Predicate hasLegalCase P3010 FINISHED
Object Kivalina v. ExxonMobil
Kivalina v. ExxonMobil is a landmark U.S. climate change lawsuit in which an Alaskan village sued major energy companies for damages allegedly caused by global warming and resulting coastal erosion.
E484115 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: Kivalina v. ExxonMobil | Statement: [Kivalina, hasLegalCase, Kivalina v. ExxonMobil]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kivalina v. ExxonMobil
Context triple: [Kivalina, hasLegalCase, Kivalina v. ExxonMobil]
  • A. Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.
    Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. is a landmark 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case that limited the extraterritorial application of the Alien Tort Statute in human rights lawsuits against corporations for conduct occurring abroad.
  • B. Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. NRDC
    Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. NRDC is a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case that limited courts’ ability to impose additional procedural requirements on federal agencies beyond those mandated by the Administrative Procedure Act and relevant statutes.
  • C. Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co.
    Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co. was a landmark U.S. class-action sexual harassment lawsuit brought by female mine workers in Minnesota’s Iron Range, recognized as one of the first major cases to address workplace sexual harassment in a blue-collar industry.
  • D. Chiafalo v. Washington
    Chiafalo v. Washington is a 2020 U.S. Supreme Court case that unanimously upheld states’ authority to penalize or replace “faithless electors” who do not vote in line with their state’s popular vote in presidential elections.
  • E. Pennzoil v. Texaco lawsuit
    The Pennzoil v. Texaco lawsuit was a landmark 1980s U.S. civil case in which Pennzoil won a multibillion-dollar judgment against Texaco over interference with its agreement to acquire Getty Oil, reshaping corporate merger practices and tort law.
  • 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: Kivalina v. ExxonMobil
Triple: [Kivalina, hasLegalCase, Kivalina v. ExxonMobil]
Generated description
Kivalina v. ExxonMobil is a landmark U.S. climate change lawsuit in which an Alaskan village sued major energy companies for damages allegedly caused by global warming and resulting coastal erosion.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kivalina v. ExxonMobil
Target entity description: Kivalina v. ExxonMobil is a landmark U.S. climate change lawsuit in which an Alaskan village sued major energy companies for damages allegedly caused by global warming and resulting coastal erosion.
  • A. Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.
    Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. is a landmark 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case that limited the extraterritorial application of the Alien Tort Statute in human rights lawsuits against corporations for conduct occurring abroad.
  • B. Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. NRDC
    Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. NRDC is a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case that limited courts’ ability to impose additional procedural requirements on federal agencies beyond those mandated by the Administrative Procedure Act and relevant statutes.
  • C. Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co.
    Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co. was a landmark U.S. class-action sexual harassment lawsuit brought by female mine workers in Minnesota’s Iron Range, recognized as one of the first major cases to address workplace sexual harassment in a blue-collar industry.
  • D. Chiafalo v. Washington
    Chiafalo v. Washington is a 2020 U.S. Supreme Court case that unanimously upheld states’ authority to penalize or replace “faithless electors” who do not vote in line with their state’s popular vote in presidential elections.
  • E. Pennzoil v. Texaco lawsuit
    The Pennzoil v. Texaco lawsuit was a landmark 1980s U.S. civil case in which Pennzoil won a multibillion-dollar judgment against Texaco over interference with its agreement to acquire Getty Oil, reshaping corporate merger practices and tort law.
  • 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_69bd441adc208190b70a033a0741d01e completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd725310088190a44b5c02658edc52 completed March 20, 2026, 4:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be8a0f90048190998dad99555891c0 completed March 21, 2026, 12:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be8aec16748190922d3b9de523b1ae completed March 21, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be8b80af18819091efdfe242b7b477 completed March 21, 2026, 12:13 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:33 p.m.