Triple

T8753203
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Janus v. AFSCME E208010 entity
Predicate petitioner P3132 FINISHED
Object Mark Janus
Mark Janus is an Illinois state employee who became the central figure in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case challenging mandatory public-sector union fees on First Amendment grounds.
 E755432 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: Mark Janus | Statement: [Janus v. AFSCME, petitioner, Mark Janus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mark Janus
Context triple: [Janus v. AFSCME, petitioner, Mark Janus]
  • A. Jack Snyder
    Jack Snyder is a central fictional police detective character from the long-running American soap opera "As the World Turns."
  • B. James Pankow
    James Pankow is an American trombonist, composer, and founding member of the rock band Chicago, known for his influential horn arrangements and songwriting.
  • C. Dan Hughes
    Dan Hughes is an American basketball coach best known for leading the WNBA’s Seattle Storm to a championship and for his long, successful career coaching multiple WNBA franchises.
  • D. Jonathan Corwin
    Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
  • E. Lock Martin
    Lock Martin was an American actor and former doorman best known for playing the towering robot Gort in the classic science fiction film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951).
  • 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: Mark Janus
Triple: [Janus v. AFSCME, petitioner, Mark Janus]
Generated description
Mark Janus is an Illinois state employee who became the central figure in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case challenging mandatory public-sector union fees on First Amendment grounds.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mark Janus
Target entity description: Mark Janus is an Illinois state employee who became the central figure in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case challenging mandatory public-sector union fees on First Amendment grounds.
  • A. Jack Snyder
    Jack Snyder is a central fictional police detective character from the long-running American soap opera "As the World Turns."
  • B. James Pankow
    James Pankow is an American trombonist, composer, and founding member of the rock band Chicago, known for his influential horn arrangements and songwriting.
  • C. Dan Hughes
    Dan Hughes is an American basketball coach best known for leading the WNBA’s Seattle Storm to a championship and for his long, successful career coaching multiple WNBA franchises.
  • D. Jonathan Corwin
    Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
  • E. Lock Martin
    Lock Martin was an American actor and former doorman best known for playing the towering robot Gort in the classic science fiction film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951).
  • 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_69ca835cd6b08190bd7c63db92f53c86 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc5dd714dc8190bccc4d52f988958d completed March 31, 2026, 11:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf4326d8cc8190900f5f91da6ef6c8 completed April 3, 2026, 4:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf4462da648190a621397fa88dd4bd completed April 3, 2026, 4:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf454c4d248190a925b15c23af1a24 completed April 3, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:39 p.m.