Triple

T19801988
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject C. Lee Buxton E475702 entity
Predicate opposed P437 FINISHED
Object Connecticut Comstock law banning contraceptives
The Connecticut Comstock law banning contraceptives was a strict 19th- and 20th-century state statute that criminalized the use and distribution of birth control, becoming a central target in landmark legal challenges to reproductive rights.
E1204976 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: Connecticut Comstock law banning contraceptives | Statement: [C. Lee Buxton, opposed, Connecticut Comstock law banning contraceptives]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Connecticut Comstock law banning contraceptives
Context triple: [C. Lee Buxton, opposed, Connecticut Comstock law banning contraceptives]
  • A. Planned Parenthood v. Danforth
    Planned Parenthood v. Danforth was a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down several Missouri abortion restrictions, including spousal and parental consent requirements, as unconstitutional.
  • B. Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act of 1982
    The Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act of 1982 is a state law that imposed various restrictions on abortion, several of which were challenged and reviewed in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
  • C. Palko v. Connecticut
    Palko v. Connecticut is a 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case that helped define the doctrine of selective incorporation by holding that only certain fundamental rights in the Bill of Rights apply to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.
  • D. Cantwell v. Connecticut
    Cantwell v. Connecticut is a 1940 U.S. Supreme Court case that first applied the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause to the states, striking down a state law that improperly restricted religious proselytizing.
  • E. Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut
    Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut is a reproductive health organization that became historically significant for its role in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut, which established a constitutional right to marital privacy regarding contraception.
  • 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: Connecticut Comstock law banning contraceptives
Triple: [C. Lee Buxton, opposed, Connecticut Comstock law banning contraceptives]
Generated description
The Connecticut Comstock law banning contraceptives was a strict 19th- and 20th-century state statute that criminalized the use and distribution of birth control, becoming a central target in landmark legal challenges to reproductive rights.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Connecticut Comstock law banning contraceptives
Target entity description: The Connecticut Comstock law banning contraceptives was a strict 19th- and 20th-century state statute that criminalized the use and distribution of birth control, becoming a central target in landmark legal challenges to reproductive rights.
  • A. Planned Parenthood v. Danforth
    Planned Parenthood v. Danforth was a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down several Missouri abortion restrictions, including spousal and parental consent requirements, as unconstitutional.
  • B. Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act of 1982
    The Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act of 1982 is a state law that imposed various restrictions on abortion, several of which were challenged and reviewed in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
  • C. Palko v. Connecticut
    Palko v. Connecticut is a 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case that helped define the doctrine of selective incorporation by holding that only certain fundamental rights in the Bill of Rights apply to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.
  • D. Cantwell v. Connecticut
    Cantwell v. Connecticut is a 1940 U.S. Supreme Court case that first applied the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause to the states, striking down a state law that improperly restricted religious proselytizing.
  • E. Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut chosen
    Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut is a reproductive health organization that became historically significant for its role in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut, which established a constitutional right to marital privacy regarding contraception.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d8e51bc4208190a1c57d8c5d1b15e4 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e654257cb4819096fb2aa5d1f7fbb0 completed April 20, 2026, 4:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07c5088834819086f4b8ac1e33401b completed May 16, 2026, 1:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07c5f5a2808190bab75011262f86e6 completed May 16, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07c6745828819085ea6103a723380a completed May 16, 2026, 1:20 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:49 p.m.