Triple

T6406088
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject District of Columbia v. Heller E127580 entity
Predicate plaintiff P660 FINISHED
Object Dick Anthony Heller
Dick Anthony Heller is a Washington, D.C. special police officer best known for successfully challenging the District of Columbia’s handgun ban in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that affirmed an individual right to possess firearms under the Second Amendment.
E591011 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: Dick Anthony Heller | Statement: [District of Columbia v. Heller, plaintiff, Dick Anthony Heller]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dick Anthony Heller
Context triple: [District of Columbia v. Heller, plaintiff, Dick Anthony Heller]
  • A. Gregory C. Johnson
    Gregory C. Johnson is a NASA astronaut and former U.S. Navy test pilot who served as the pilot of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, STS-125.
  • B. Joshua W. Sill
    Joshua W. Sill was a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War, remembered for his leadership and death at the Battle of Stones River.
  • C. Roy Andrew Miller
    Roy Andrew Miller was an American linguist renowned for his influential and controversial work on the proposed Altaic language family and for his broader contributions to East Asian linguistics.
  • D. Lewis Powell
    Lewis Powell was a Confederate sympathizer and member of John Wilkes Booth’s plot who attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William H. Seward on the night Abraham Lincoln was killed.
  • E. David Huddleston
    David Huddleston was an American character actor best known for his memorable supporting roles in film and television, including the title role in the cult classic comedy "The Big Lebowski."
  • 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: Dick Anthony Heller
Triple: [District of Columbia v. Heller, plaintiff, Dick Anthony Heller]
Generated description
Dick Anthony Heller is a Washington, D.C. special police officer best known for successfully challenging the District of Columbia’s handgun ban in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that affirmed an individual right to possess firearms under the Second Amendment.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dick Anthony Heller
Target entity description: Dick Anthony Heller is a Washington, D.C. special police officer best known for successfully challenging the District of Columbia’s handgun ban in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that affirmed an individual right to possess firearms under the Second Amendment.
  • A. Gregory C. Johnson
    Gregory C. Johnson is a NASA astronaut and former U.S. Navy test pilot who served as the pilot of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, STS-125.
  • B. Joshua W. Sill
    Joshua W. Sill was a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War, remembered for his leadership and death at the Battle of Stones River.
  • C. Roy Andrew Miller
    Roy Andrew Miller was an American linguist renowned for his influential and controversial work on the proposed Altaic language family and for his broader contributions to East Asian linguistics.
  • D. Lewis Powell
    Lewis Powell was a Confederate sympathizer and member of John Wilkes Booth’s plot who attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William H. Seward on the night Abraham Lincoln was killed.
  • E. David Huddleston
    David Huddleston was an American character actor best known for his memorable supporting roles in film and television, including the title role in the cult classic comedy "The Big Lebowski."
  • 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_69c0083723d88190b1e37b19df162c08 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c068b22c74819092228010708aec6b completed March 22, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c638af5450819089d0b68721eaea4d completed March 27, 2026, 7:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c63b6213a881908c6c87c4672b8f3b completed March 27, 2026, 8:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c63c5f7d508190bd263822cea1b782 completed March 27, 2026, 8:14 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:41 p.m.