Triple

T22260595
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject In Praise of Erie—and of the New Federal Common Law E550212 entity
Predicate analyzes P170 FINISHED
Object Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins — 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: Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins | Statement: [In Praise of Erie—and of the New Federal Common Law, analyzes, Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins
Context triple: [In Praise of Erie—and of the New Federal Common Law, analyzes, Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins]
  • A. Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins chosen
    Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins is a landmark 1938 U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended the practice of federal general common law and required federal courts in diversity cases to apply state substantive law.
  • B. New York Central Railroad Co. v. Winfield
    New York Central Railroad Co. v. Winfield is a 1917 U.S. Supreme Court decision that clarified the scope of federal authority over railroad worker injury claims under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, limiting the application of state workers’ compensation laws in such cases.
  • C. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. v. United States
    Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. v. United States is a notable U.S. Supreme Court decision from the White Court era involving federal regulation of railroads and interstate commerce.
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69e11e42adb8819087714772ea606709 completed April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f141b703b081909a2b432463a8e2df completed April 28, 2026, 11:24 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:39 p.m.