Triple
T7476330
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | McDonald v. Smith |
E176640
|
entity |
| Predicate | concurrenceBy |
P4516
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Lewis F. Powell Jr. |
E23255
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Lewis F. Powell Jr. | Statement: [McDonald v. Smith, concurrenceBy, Lewis F. Powell Jr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lewis F. Powell Jr. Context triple: [McDonald v. Smith, concurrenceBy, Lewis F. Powell Jr.]
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A.
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
chosen
Lewis F. Powell Jr. was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1972–1987) known as a pivotal moderate whose swing votes shaped landmark decisions on issues such as abortion, affirmative action, and the death penalty.
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B.
Lewis Thornton Powell
Lewis Thornton Powell was an American Confederate soldier and conspirator in the assassination plot against U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, best known for his failed attempt to murder Secretary of State William H. Seward.
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C.
Paul G. Kirk
Paul G. Kirk is an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as interim U.S. Senator from Massachusetts following the death of Edward M. Kennedy.
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D.
Justice George Sutherland
Justice George Sutherland was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his conservative jurisprudence and influential role in the Court’s early 20th-century decisions limiting federal power.
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E.
Justice Stanley Reed
Justice Stanley Reed was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1938–1957) known for his generally moderate to conservative jurisprudence during the New Deal and early Cold War eras.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69c8eef3b7a88190bb42b5f93ce2daba |
completed | March 29, 2026, 9:20 a.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:41 p.m.