Triple

T5299695
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Case E119944 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Ermine Cowles Case
Ermine Cowles Case was an American paleontologist known for his work on Permian and Triassic vertebrate fossils and for helping establish the field of vertebrate paleontology in North America.
E509786 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: Ermine Cowles Case | Statement: [Case, hasNotableBearer, Ermine Cowles Case]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ermine Cowles Case
Context triple: [Case, hasNotableBearer, Ermine Cowles Case]
  • A. Thaw–White murder case
    The Thaw–White murder case was a sensational early 20th-century American scandal in which millionaire Harry K. Thaw fatally shot famed architect Stanford White over White’s relationship with actress Evelyn Nesbit, captivating the public and press with its mix of sex, jealousy, and high society.
  • B. Shadrach Minkins case
    The Shadrach Minkins case was a landmark 1851 legal and political battle in Boston over the capture and rescue of an escaped enslaved man, which galvanized Northern resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act and intensified sectional tensions before the Civil War.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Leopold and Loeb murder trial
    The Leopold and Loeb murder trial was a 1924 American criminal case in which famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow argued against the death penalty for two wealthy University of Chicago students who had committed a highly publicized "thrill killing" of a young boy.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Ermine Cowles Case
Triple: [Case, hasNotableBearer, Ermine Cowles Case]
Generated description
Ermine Cowles Case was an American paleontologist known for his work on Permian and Triassic vertebrate fossils and for helping establish the field of vertebrate paleontology in North America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ermine Cowles Case
Target entity description: Ermine Cowles Case was an American paleontologist known for his work on Permian and Triassic vertebrate fossils and for helping establish the field of vertebrate paleontology in North America.
  • A. Thaw–White murder case
    The Thaw–White murder case was a sensational early 20th-century American scandal in which millionaire Harry K. Thaw fatally shot famed architect Stanford White over White’s relationship with actress Evelyn Nesbit, captivating the public and press with its mix of sex, jealousy, and high society.
  • B. Shadrach Minkins case
    The Shadrach Minkins case was a landmark 1851 legal and political battle in Boston over the capture and rescue of an escaped enslaved man, which galvanized Northern resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act and intensified sectional tensions before the Civil War.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Leopold and Loeb murder trial
    The Leopold and Loeb murder trial was a 1924 American criminal case in which famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow argued against the death penalty for two wealthy University of Chicago students who had committed a highly publicized "thrill killing" of a young boy.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69bd446f22b88190b6a47fb91c68a3e7 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd850877688190a611d6293ca58d94 completed March 20, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf10ec33ac819083d283e960a049af completed March 21, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf11c162f48190bdc56fea62575643 completed March 21, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf1237a644819081b1f1013e23cc66 completed March 21, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:53 p.m.