Triple

T1445137
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Subtitle C E31159 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object United States environmental law
United States environmental law is the body of federal statutes, regulations, and case law that governs the protection of air, water, land, wildlife, and public health from environmental harm.
 E165699 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 environmental law | Statement: [Subtitle C, partOf, United States environmental law]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: United States environmental law
Context triple: [Subtitle C, partOf, United States environmental law]
  • A. National Environmental Policy Act
    The National Environmental Policy Act is a foundational U.S. environmental law that requires federal agencies to assess and disclose the environmental impacts of their proposed actions through processes like Environmental Impact Statements.
  • B. Columbia Journal of Environmental Law
    Columbia Journal of Environmental Law is a student-edited legal journal that publishes scholarship on environmental and natural resources law and policy.
  • C. United States law
    United States law is the complex federal and state legal system that governs the United States, encompassing the Constitution, statutes, regulations, and judicial decisions that structure government powers and protect individual rights.
  • D. Environmental Law Clinic
    The Environmental Law Clinic is a Columbia Law School program where students gain practical experience working on real-world environmental and natural resources law issues under faculty supervision.
  • E. U.S. Endangered Species Act
    The U.S. Endangered Species Act is a landmark federal law that provides legal protection and conservation measures for species at risk of extinction and the ecosystems on which they depend.
  • 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 environmental law
Triple: [Subtitle C, partOf, United States environmental law]
Generated description
United States environmental law is the body of federal statutes, regulations, and case law that governs the protection of air, water, land, wildlife, and public health from environmental harm.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: United States environmental law
Target entity description: United States environmental law is the body of federal statutes, regulations, and case law that governs the protection of air, water, land, wildlife, and public health from environmental harm.
  • A. National Environmental Policy Act
    The National Environmental Policy Act is a foundational U.S. environmental law that requires federal agencies to assess and disclose the environmental impacts of their proposed actions through processes like Environmental Impact Statements.
  • B. Columbia Journal of Environmental Law
    Columbia Journal of Environmental Law is a student-edited legal journal that publishes scholarship on environmental and natural resources law and policy.
  • C. United States law
    United States law is the complex federal and state legal system that governs the United States, encompassing the Constitution, statutes, regulations, and judicial decisions that structure government powers and protect individual rights.
  • D. Environmental Law Clinic
    The Environmental Law Clinic is a Columbia Law School program where students gain practical experience working on real-world environmental and natural resources law issues under faculty supervision.
  • E. U.S. Endangered Species Act
    The U.S. Endangered Species Act is a landmark federal law that provides legal protection and conservation measures for species at risk of extinction and the ecosystems on which they depend.
  • 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_69a4991633388190a4d61b5a98aa407a completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c5353fdc819090481cbdd1162929 completed March 1, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad08c046b08190a448ba2549dc5e00 completed March 8, 2026, 5:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad09ec3b388190b492e8959a3617c9 completed March 8, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad0aefb1c88190a368d68454a0b9d0 completed March 8, 2026, 5:36 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8 p.m.