Triple

T8067886
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alex Kozinski E188290 entity
Predicate notableCaseInvolvement P17092 FINISHED
Object United States v. Gementera
United States v. Gementera is a federal appellate case known for upholding a controversial shaming-based condition of supervised release imposed on a mail thief, raising significant debate about the limits of creative sentencing under the Eighth Amendment.
E709612 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: United States v. Gementera | Statement: [Alex Kozinski, notableCaseInvolvement, United States v. Gementera]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States v. Gementera
Context triple: [Alex Kozinski, notableCaseInvolvement, United States v. Gementera]
  • A. United States v. Gardner
    United States v. Gardner is a federal court case that examined the scope of Congress’s authority over federal lands under the U.S. Constitution’s Property Clause.
  • B. United States v. Eichman
    United States v. Eichman is a 1990 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down a federal law banning flag desecration as unconstitutional under the First Amendment’s protection of free speech.
  • C. United States v. Bajakajian
    United States v. Bajakajian is a 1998 U.S. Supreme Court case that held, for the first time, that a criminal forfeiture could violate the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause if it is grossly disproportionate to the gravity of the offense.
  • D. United States v. Guest
    United States v. Guest is a 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case that held the federal government can prosecute private conspiracies to interfere with constitutional rights, particularly the right to travel, under certain circumstances.
  • E. United States v. Giordano
    United States v. Giordano is a U.S. Supreme Court case that clarified the strict procedural requirements for federal wiretap authorizations and limited who may approve such surveillance orders.
  • 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: United States v. Gementera
Triple: [Alex Kozinski, notableCaseInvolvement, United States v. Gementera]
Generated description
United States v. Gementera is a federal appellate case known for upholding a controversial shaming-based condition of supervised release imposed on a mail thief, raising significant debate about the limits of creative sentencing under the Eighth Amendment.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States v. Gementera
Target entity description: United States v. Gementera is a federal appellate case known for upholding a controversial shaming-based condition of supervised release imposed on a mail thief, raising significant debate about the limits of creative sentencing under the Eighth Amendment.
  • A. United States v. Gardner
    United States v. Gardner is a federal court case that examined the scope of Congress’s authority over federal lands under the U.S. Constitution’s Property Clause.
  • B. United States v. Eichman
    United States v. Eichman is a 1990 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down a federal law banning flag desecration as unconstitutional under the First Amendment’s protection of free speech.
  • C. United States v. Bajakajian
    United States v. Bajakajian is a 1998 U.S. Supreme Court case that held, for the first time, that a criminal forfeiture could violate the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause if it is grossly disproportionate to the gravity of the offense.
  • D. United States v. Guest
    United States v. Guest is a 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case that held the federal government can prosecute private conspiracies to interfere with constitutional rights, particularly the right to travel, under certain circumstances.
  • E. United States v. Giordano
    United States v. Giordano is a U.S. Supreme Court case that clarified the strict procedural requirements for federal wiretap authorizations and limited who may approve such surveillance orders.
  • 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_69ca82b42674819086840efea12478e5 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb3ff8a4fc8190a97fc7111ca7ec4d completed March 31, 2026, 3:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cc63e587908190980f1f026f4aa153 completed April 1, 2026, 12:16 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc651c5f788190908c6d84c58cba0f completed April 1, 2026, 12:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc6649d2348190996802140b455348 completed April 1, 2026, 12:26 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:27 p.m.