Triple

T21889566
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Donald C. MacPherson E540500 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co. — NE NERFINISHED

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: MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co. | Statement: [Donald C. MacPherson, knownFor, MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co.
Context triple: [Donald C. MacPherson, knownFor, MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co.]
  • A. MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co. chosen
    MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co. is a landmark 1916 New York Court of Appeals case that expanded manufacturers’ liability in negligence to consumers, even without privity of contract.
  • B. Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. v. Williams
    Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. v. Williams is a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court case that narrowly interpreted the definition of "disability" under the Americans with Disabilities Act, prompting Congress to later broaden that definition through the ADA Amendments Act of 2008.
  • 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. McDonald v. Smith
    McDonald v. Smith is a 1985 U.S. Supreme Court case that held the First Amendment’s Petition Clause does not grant absolute immunity from libel suits for statements made in petitions to government officials.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (2 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_69e0c47a95908190ae3e19b716accb3d completed April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f118ef2b648190bbd78f6b3958d2ee completed April 28, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 7:06 p.m.