Triple

T7702819
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Exxon Valdez oil spill E174539 entity
Predicate legalOutcome P2931 FINISHED
Object US Supreme Court case Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker
Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker is a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court decision that significantly limited punitive damages awarded against Exxon for the Exxon Valdez oil spill, shaping modern maritime and punitive damages law.
E682976 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: US Supreme Court case Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker | Statement: [Exxon Valdez oil spill, legalOutcome, US Supreme Court case Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: US Supreme Court case Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker
Context triple: [Exxon Valdez oil spill, legalOutcome, US Supreme Court case Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker]
  • A. Pennzoil v. Texaco lawsuit
    The Pennzoil v. Texaco lawsuit was a landmark 1980s U.S. civil case in which Pennzoil won a multibillion-dollar judgment against Texaco over interference with its agreement to acquire Getty Oil, reshaping corporate merger practices and tort law.
  • B. Kivalina v. ExxonMobil
    Kivalina v. ExxonMobil is a landmark U.S. climate change lawsuit in which an Alaskan village sued major energy companies for damages allegedly caused by global warming and resulting coastal erosion.
  • C. SEC v. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co.
    SEC v. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. is a landmark U.S. securities law case that broadly defined insider trading liability and the disclosure obligations of publicly traded companies under federal law.
  • D. Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.
    Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. is a landmark 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case that limited the extraterritorial application of the Alien Tort Statute in human rights lawsuits against corporations for conduct occurring abroad.
  • E. Supreme Court case Yakus v. United States
    Yakus v. United States is a 1944 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld wartime price controls and affirmed broad congressional delegation of authority to administrative agencies.
  • 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: US Supreme Court case Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker
Triple: [Exxon Valdez oil spill, legalOutcome, US Supreme Court case Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker]
Generated description
Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker is a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court decision that significantly limited punitive damages awarded against Exxon for the Exxon Valdez oil spill, shaping modern maritime and punitive damages law.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: US Supreme Court case Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker
Target entity description: Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker is a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court decision that significantly limited punitive damages awarded against Exxon for the Exxon Valdez oil spill, shaping modern maritime and punitive damages law.
  • A. Pennzoil v. Texaco lawsuit
    The Pennzoil v. Texaco lawsuit was a landmark 1980s U.S. civil case in which Pennzoil won a multibillion-dollar judgment against Texaco over interference with its agreement to acquire Getty Oil, reshaping corporate merger practices and tort law.
  • B. Kivalina v. ExxonMobil
    Kivalina v. ExxonMobil is a landmark U.S. climate change lawsuit in which an Alaskan village sued major energy companies for damages allegedly caused by global warming and resulting coastal erosion.
  • C. SEC v. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co.
    SEC v. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. is a landmark U.S. securities law case that broadly defined insider trading liability and the disclosure obligations of publicly traded companies under federal law.
  • D. Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.
    Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. is a landmark 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case that limited the extraterritorial application of the Alien Tort Statute in human rights lawsuits against corporations for conduct occurring abroad.
  • E. Supreme Court case Yakus v. United States
    Yakus v. United States is a 1944 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld wartime price controls and affirmed broad congressional delegation of authority to administrative agencies.
  • 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_69c6995a72cc8190998e56daa6f8e453 completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c7028bcb2c8190baa4e4b14abe2cc5 completed March 27, 2026, 10:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8acbc2024819083576f5a11c1e3a8 completed March 29, 2026, 4:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8adeb3948819087404b0d7d7e619e completed March 29, 2026, 4:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8aedede388190b8eb79cea223c31c completed March 29, 2026, 4:47 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 4:03 p.m.