Triple
T14337040
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | A Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts |
E355491
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Christopher Columbus Langdell |
E71908
|
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: Christopher Columbus Langdell | Statement: [A Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts, author, Christopher Columbus Langdell]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Christopher Columbus Langdell Context triple: [A Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts, author, Christopher Columbus Langdell]
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A.
Christopher Columbus Langdell
chosen
Christopher Columbus Langdell was a 19th-century American legal scholar and dean of Harvard Law School who pioneered the case method of legal education.
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B.
Cuthbert W. Pound
Cuthbert W. Pound was an American jurist who served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals and was influential in the development of modern tort law.
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C.
William P. Frye
William P. Frye was an American politician and long-serving U.S. Senator from Maine who played a prominent role in late 19th- and early 20th-century national politics.
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D.
William Dummer Powell
William Dummer Powell was a prominent early Canadian jurist who served as Chief Justice of Upper Canada in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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E.
John Henry Boalt
John Henry Boalt was a 19th-century American lawyer and judge in California whose name later became controversial due to his openly racist views, prompting modern efforts to remove his name from institutions.
- 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_69d8278fa2108190bc0d0e7939c1eb03 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69de8c2241e48190a0c626b3d741966a |
completed | April 14, 2026, 6:49 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fd5508da0c8190a8ea44ca737cf352 |
completed | May 8, 2026, 3:14 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:14 a.m.