Triple

T6737225
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject United States Supreme Court cases of the Hughes Court E153985 entity
Predicate includesCase P1393 FINISHED
Object Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins
Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins is a landmark 1938 U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended the practice of federal general common law and required federal courts in diversity cases to apply state substantive law.
E615011 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: Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins | Statement: [United States Supreme Court cases of the Hughes Court, includesCase, Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins
Context triple: [United States Supreme Court cases of the Hughes Court, includesCase, Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins]
  • A. Railway Express Agency v. New York
    Railway Express Agency v. New York is a 1949 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld a New York City traffic regulation restricting advertising on vehicles against an Equal Protection Clause challenge.
  • B. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co. v. Chicago
    Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co. v. Chicago is an 1897 U.S. Supreme Court case that marked a key step in applying federal constitutional protections—particularly just compensation for takings—to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.
  • C. Lochner v. New York
    Lochner v. New York is a landmark 1905 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down a state labor regulation and became emblematic of the era in which the Court used substantive due process to protect economic liberty and limit government regulation of business.
  • D. Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co.
    Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. is a landmark 1928 New York Court of Appeals case, authored by Judge Benjamin Cardozo, that established the modern American doctrine of proximate cause and foreseeability in negligence law.
  • E. Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co.
    Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co. is a 1916 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the federal income tax and clarified the scope and constitutionality of the Sixteenth Amendment.
  • 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: Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins
Triple: [United States Supreme Court cases of the Hughes Court, includesCase, Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins]
Generated description
Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins is a landmark 1938 U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended the practice of federal general common law and required federal courts in diversity cases to apply state substantive law.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins
Target entity description: Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins is a landmark 1938 U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended the practice of federal general common law and required federal courts in diversity cases to apply state substantive law.
  • A. Railway Express Agency v. New York
    Railway Express Agency v. New York is a 1949 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld a New York City traffic regulation restricting advertising on vehicles against an Equal Protection Clause challenge.
  • B. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co. v. Chicago
    Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co. v. Chicago is an 1897 U.S. Supreme Court case that marked a key step in applying federal constitutional protections—particularly just compensation for takings—to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.
  • C. Lochner v. New York
    Lochner v. New York is a landmark 1905 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down a state labor regulation and became emblematic of the era in which the Court used substantive due process to protect economic liberty and limit government regulation of business.
  • D. Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co.
    Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. is a landmark 1928 New York Court of Appeals case, authored by Judge Benjamin Cardozo, that established the modern American doctrine of proximate cause and foreseeability in negligence law.
  • E. Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co.
    Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co. is a 1916 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the federal income tax and clarified the scope and constitutionality of the Sixteenth Amendment.
  • 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_69c6880d84d8819095d19de2295f26ac completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d1850a288190aa7e647fefbb0ede completed March 27, 2026, 6:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c70b0b97248190bf6bac160fe3d45b completed March 27, 2026, 10:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c70bb0714c819094e80a2dfc960c99 completed March 27, 2026, 10:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c70c51e0148190be64afb56690b34f completed March 27, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:10 p.m.