Triple

T7476322
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McDonald v. Smith E176640 entity
Predicate majorityOpinionJoinedBy P76465 FINISHED
Object William J. Brennan Jr. E24165 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: William J. Brennan Jr. | Statement: [McDonald v. Smith, majorityOpinionJoinedBy, William J. Brennan Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William J. Brennan Jr.
Context triple: [McDonald v. Smith, majorityOpinionJoinedBy, William J. Brennan Jr.]
  • A. William J. Brennan Jr. chosen
    William J. Brennan Jr. was a long-serving associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his influential liberal opinions expanding civil rights and civil liberties.
  • B. Harry A. Blackmun
    Harry A. Blackmun was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, best known for authoring the landmark abortion rights decision in Roe v. Wade.
  • C. William Douglas
    William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and influential landowner known for his political roles and extravagant lifestyle.
  • D. Abe Fortas
    Abe Fortas was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and was a close adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson.
  • E. William O. Douglas
    William O. Douglas was a long-serving U.S. Supreme Court Justice known for his strong civil libertarian views and expansive interpretation of individual rights under the Constitution.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: majorityOpinionJoinedBy
Context triple: [McDonald v. Smith, majorityOpinionJoinedBy, William J. Brennan Jr.]
  • A. majorityOpinion
    Indicates that a particular opinion is held by more than half of the relevant group or decision-making body.
  • B. hasMajorityOpinionBy
    Indicates that a majority of the relevant group or decision-making body holds or supports the opinion expressed by the referenced entity.
  • C. authorOfMajorityOpinion
    Indicates that the subject is the primary judge or justice who wrote the court’s majority opinion in a given case.
  • D. pluralityOpinionBy
    Indicates that the referenced opinion is the controlling or majority view issued by a decision-making body, as opposed to concurring or dissenting opinions.
  • E. concurringJustice
    Indicates that a justice agrees with the court’s judgment or outcome but writes or joins a separate concurring opinion expressing different or additional reasoning.
  • 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_69c69f236ce08190a04d7679f03b29b2 completed March 27, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f4ee23d081908e05658a651661fc completed March 27, 2026, 9:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c98bdf24bc81909b8d3f519d48ce98 completed March 29, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69c6f03d967081908a8e696ff9693b90 completed March 27, 2026, 9:01 p.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69c6f105e320819091db3cdb1f1351f0 completed March 27, 2026, 9:05 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:41 p.m.