Triple

T19243219
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject National City Lines E481181 entity
Predicate legalCase P3996 FINISHED
Object United States v. National City Lines, Inc. (1949)
United States v. National City Lines, Inc. (1949) was a U.S. antitrust case involving a major streetcar and bus operator accused, along with corporate partners, of conspiring to monopolize and dismantle electric streetcar systems in favor of buses and related products.
E1365515 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. National City Lines, Inc. (1949) | Statement: [National City Lines, legalCase, United States v. National City Lines, Inc. (1949)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States v. National City Lines, Inc. (1949)
Context triple: [National City Lines, legalCase, United States v. National City Lines, Inc. (1949)]
  • A. United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association
    United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association was an 1897 U.S. Supreme Court antitrust case that held railroad rate-fixing agreements violated the Sherman Antitrust Act, even if the rates were reasonable.
  • B. National Railroad Passenger Corp. v. Morgan
    National Railroad Passenger Corp. v. Morgan is a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision that clarified the time limits for filing employment discrimination claims, distinguishing between discrete acts and continuing violations under Title VII.
  • C. United States v. Carroll Towing Co.
    United States v. Carroll Towing Co. is a landmark 1947 U.S. federal court case famous for Judge Learned Hand’s formulation of the “Hand formula” for determining negligence in tort law.
  • D. California Motor Transport Co. v. Trucking Unlimited
    California Motor Transport Co. v. Trucking Unlimited is a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court case that addressed the limits of First Amendment petitioning rights when parties allegedly use governmental and judicial processes as part of an anticompetitive scheme in violation of antitrust laws.
  • E. Railway Express Agency v. New York
    Railway Express Agency v. New York is a 1949 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld a New York City traffic regulation restricting advertising on vehicles against an Equal Protection Clause challenge.
  • 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. National City Lines, Inc. (1949)
Triple: [National City Lines, legalCase, United States v. National City Lines, Inc. (1949)]
Generated description
United States v. National City Lines, Inc. (1949) was a U.S. antitrust case involving a major streetcar and bus operator accused, along with corporate partners, of conspiring to monopolize and dismantle electric streetcar systems in favor of buses and related products.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States v. National City Lines, Inc. (1949)
Target entity description: United States v. National City Lines, Inc. (1949) was a U.S. antitrust case involving a major streetcar and bus operator accused, along with corporate partners, of conspiring to monopolize and dismantle electric streetcar systems in favor of buses and related products.
  • A. United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association
    United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association was an 1897 U.S. Supreme Court antitrust case that held railroad rate-fixing agreements violated the Sherman Antitrust Act, even if the rates were reasonable.
  • B. National Railroad Passenger Corp. v. Morgan
    National Railroad Passenger Corp. v. Morgan is a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision that clarified the time limits for filing employment discrimination claims, distinguishing between discrete acts and continuing violations under Title VII.
  • C. United States v. Carroll Towing Co.
    United States v. Carroll Towing Co. is a landmark 1947 U.S. federal court case famous for Judge Learned Hand’s formulation of the “Hand formula” for determining negligence in tort law.
  • D. California Motor Transport Co. v. Trucking Unlimited
    California Motor Transport Co. v. Trucking Unlimited is a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court case that addressed the limits of First Amendment petitioning rights when parties allegedly use governmental and judicial processes as part of an anticompetitive scheme in violation of antitrust laws.
  • E. Railway Express Agency v. New York
    Railway Express Agency v. New York is a 1949 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld a New York City traffic regulation restricting advertising on vehicles against an Equal Protection Clause challenge.
  • 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_69d8e8cd9d1081908a181d02b88b59b8 completed April 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5faf3018881909ef866616c45ff2e completed April 20, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0705de9bb88190a2a7b3fed79e95de completed May 15, 2026, 11:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a070661a2888190a4f56a27ddd38cc7 completed May 15, 2026, 11:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0706eb41d88190a77adaf469df30e1 completed May 15, 2026, 11:43 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:27 p.m.