Triple

T6724453
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Native American sovereignty E153476 entity
Predicate historicallyArticulatedIn P73367 FINISHED
Object Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe (1978)
Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe (1978) is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that held tribal courts lack criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians, significantly limiting Native American sovereignty and self-governance in criminal matters.
E613634 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: Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe (1978) | Statement: [Native American sovereignty, historicallyArticulatedIn, Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe (1978)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe (1978)
Context triple: [Native American sovereignty, historicallyArticulatedIn, Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe (1978)]
  • A. Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States
    Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States is a 1955 U.S. Supreme Court case that denied compensable property rights to an Alaska Native group by relying on the Doctrine of Discovery to limit Indigenous land claims.
  • B. Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation
    Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation is a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court denied the Oneida Indian Nation sovereign authority over reacquired ancestral lands, emphasizing equitable doctrines and long-standing non-Indian governance.
  • C. United States v. Washington
    United States v. Washington is a landmark federal court case that affirmed and clarified Pacific Northwest Native American tribes’ treaty fishing rights, significantly shaping U.S. Indian law and natural resource management.
  • D. International Shoe Co. v. Washington
    International Shoe Co. v. Washington is a landmark 1945 U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the modern "minimum contacts" standard for determining when a state may exercise personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant.
  • E. Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.
    Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. is a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case that held federal law preempts Arizona’s requirement that prospective voters provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering using the federal form.
  • 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: Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe (1978)
Triple: [Native American sovereignty, historicallyArticulatedIn, Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe (1978)]
Generated description
Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe (1978) is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that held tribal courts lack criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians, significantly limiting Native American sovereignty and self-governance in criminal matters.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe (1978)
Target entity description: Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe (1978) is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that held tribal courts lack criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians, significantly limiting Native American sovereignty and self-governance in criminal matters.
  • A. Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States
    Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States is a 1955 U.S. Supreme Court case that denied compensable property rights to an Alaska Native group by relying on the Doctrine of Discovery to limit Indigenous land claims.
  • B. Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation
    Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation is a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court denied the Oneida Indian Nation sovereign authority over reacquired ancestral lands, emphasizing equitable doctrines and long-standing non-Indian governance.
  • C. United States v. Washington
    United States v. Washington is a landmark federal court case that affirmed and clarified Pacific Northwest Native American tribes’ treaty fishing rights, significantly shaping U.S. Indian law and natural resource management.
  • D. International Shoe Co. v. Washington
    International Shoe Co. v. Washington is a landmark 1945 U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the modern "minimum contacts" standard for determining when a state may exercise personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state defendant.
  • E. Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.
    Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. is a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case that held federal law preempts Arizona’s requirement that prospective voters provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering using the federal form.
  • 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_69c6880afb988190ad88011b48ecfcba completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d7c94bac8190ae4b236d1b04bec9 completed March 27, 2026, 7:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c700a34e248190ba9d73437b19a96d completed March 27, 2026, 10:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c703ad7e0c81908da32c96806f3b07 completed March 27, 2026, 10:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7042f23408190b06faafcb3251276 completed March 27, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:08 p.m.