Triple

T9165611
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edward Bates E219946 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Bates Opinion on Citizenship (1862)
Bates Opinion on Citizenship (1862) is a landmark legal opinion by U.S. Attorney General Edward Bates that clarified the national citizenship status of free African Americans during the Civil War era.
E782533 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: Bates Opinion on Citizenship (1862) | Statement: [Edward Bates, notableWork, Bates Opinion on Citizenship (1862)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bates Opinion on Citizenship (1862)
Context triple: [Edward Bates, notableWork, Bates Opinion on Citizenship (1862)]
  • A. Dissent in the Prize Cases (1863)
    Dissent in the Prize Cases (1863) is a notable Supreme Court opinion in which Justice Samuel Nelson argued against the majority’s validation of President Lincoln’s Civil War blockade powers.
  • B. Insular Cases
    The Insular Cases are a series of early 20th-century U.S. Supreme Court decisions that defined the constitutional status and rights of residents in American overseas territories.
  • C. Minor v. Happersett
    Minor v. Happersett was an 1875 U.S. Supreme Court case that held the Constitution did not grant women the right to vote, rejecting the argument that suffrage was a privilege of national citizenship.
  • D. Ableman v. Booth
    Ableman v. Booth was an 1859 U.S. Supreme Court case that affirmed federal supremacy over state courts in enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act before the Civil War.
  • E. United States v. Kagama
    United States v. Kagama is an 1886 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld federal authority over crimes committed by Native Americans on reservations, reinforcing congressional power in Indian affairs.
  • 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: Bates Opinion on Citizenship (1862)
Triple: [Edward Bates, notableWork, Bates Opinion on Citizenship (1862)]
Generated description
Bates Opinion on Citizenship (1862) is a landmark legal opinion by U.S. Attorney General Edward Bates that clarified the national citizenship status of free African Americans during the Civil War era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bates Opinion on Citizenship (1862)
Target entity description: Bates Opinion on Citizenship (1862) is a landmark legal opinion by U.S. Attorney General Edward Bates that clarified the national citizenship status of free African Americans during the Civil War era.
  • A. Dissent in the Prize Cases (1863)
    Dissent in the Prize Cases (1863) is a notable Supreme Court opinion in which Justice Samuel Nelson argued against the majority’s validation of President Lincoln’s Civil War blockade powers.
  • B. Insular Cases
    The Insular Cases are a series of early 20th-century U.S. Supreme Court decisions that defined the constitutional status and rights of residents in American overseas territories.
  • C. Minor v. Happersett
    Minor v. Happersett was an 1875 U.S. Supreme Court case that held the Constitution did not grant women the right to vote, rejecting the argument that suffrage was a privilege of national citizenship.
  • D. Ableman v. Booth
    Ableman v. Booth was an 1859 U.S. Supreme Court case that affirmed federal supremacy over state courts in enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act before the Civil War.
  • E. United States v. Kagama
    United States v. Kagama is an 1886 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld federal authority over crimes committed by Native Americans on reservations, reinforcing congressional power in Indian affairs.
  • 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_69ca83e3633c81908688a9fa2306ba99 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ccaa3055048190870211449c78fc4e completed April 1, 2026, 5:16 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d05484c2688190a5c64b5b54bedbb5 completed April 4, 2026, midnight
NEDg Description generation batch_69d0572b4d748190af34f7157aa4d7cd completed April 4, 2026, 12:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d057901d148190b663b36cc1dc3862 completed April 4, 2026, 12:13 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:22 p.m.