Triple

T2854887
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Allen Ginsberg E63175 entity
Predicate notableEvent P259 FINISHED
Object "Howl" obscenity trial
The "Howl" obscenity trial was a landmark 1957 U.S. court case that tested the limits of literary free speech by challenging whether Allen Ginsberg’s poem "Howl" was legally obscene, ultimately affirming its protection under the First Amendment.
E305338 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: "Howl" obscenity trial | Statement: [Allen Ginsberg, notableEvent, "Howl" obscenity trial]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: "Howl" obscenity trial
Context triple: [Allen Ginsberg, notableEvent, "Howl" obscenity trial]
  • A. Ruskin v. Whistler libel case
    The Ruskin v. Whistler libel case was an 1878 British lawsuit in which American-born artist James McNeill Whistler sued influential critic John Ruskin for defamation over a harsh review of his painting, highlighting tensions between avant-garde art and traditional criticism.
  • B. Trial of the Twenty-One
    The Trial of the Twenty-One was a 1938 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks and party leaders were accused of treason and executed, marking one of the most infamous episodes of Stalin’s Great Purge.
  • C. Oscar Wilde libel trial
    The Oscar Wilde libel trial was the 1895 court case in which playwright Oscar Wilde sued the Marquess of Queensberry for libel, leading to Wilde’s own prosecution and conviction for “gross indecency” and his subsequent downfall.
  • D. Crimes Against Nature
    "Crimes Against Nature" is a nonfiction book by environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that critiques corporate pollution and government complicity in environmental degradation.
  • E. Censura Forensis
    Censura Forensis is a significant 17th-century legal treatise by Dutch jurist Simon van Leeuwen that systematically analyzes and critiques contemporary civil and canon law.
  • 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: "Howl" obscenity trial
Triple: [Allen Ginsberg, notableEvent, "Howl" obscenity trial]
Generated description
The "Howl" obscenity trial was a landmark 1957 U.S. court case that tested the limits of literary free speech by challenging whether Allen Ginsberg’s poem "Howl" was legally obscene, ultimately affirming its protection under the First Amendment.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: "Howl" obscenity trial
Target entity description: The "Howl" obscenity trial was a landmark 1957 U.S. court case that tested the limits of literary free speech by challenging whether Allen Ginsberg’s poem "Howl" was legally obscene, ultimately affirming its protection under the First Amendment.
  • A. Ruskin v. Whistler libel case
    The Ruskin v. Whistler libel case was an 1878 British lawsuit in which American-born artist James McNeill Whistler sued influential critic John Ruskin for defamation over a harsh review of his painting, highlighting tensions between avant-garde art and traditional criticism.
  • B. Trial of the Twenty-One
    The Trial of the Twenty-One was a 1938 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks and party leaders were accused of treason and executed, marking one of the most infamous episodes of Stalin’s Great Purge.
  • C. Oscar Wilde libel trial
    The Oscar Wilde libel trial was the 1895 court case in which playwright Oscar Wilde sued the Marquess of Queensberry for libel, leading to Wilde’s own prosecution and conviction for “gross indecency” and his subsequent downfall.
  • D. Crimes Against Nature
    "Crimes Against Nature" is a nonfiction book by environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that critiques corporate pollution and government complicity in environmental degradation.
  • E. Censura Forensis
    Censura Forensis is a significant 17th-century legal treatise by Dutch jurist Simon van Leeuwen that systematically analyzes and critiques contemporary civil and canon law.
  • 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_69ab4c407c408190857d25e027155ce9 completed March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdf60852c8190b66c8719c63a723e completed March 7, 2026, 8:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b01d8774cc8190aa6ed40b26c4a568 completed March 10, 2026, 1:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b01ea4e3a481909241383e2c4093d8 completed March 10, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b01f1a9ac48190b8d2b5247cb2c3d8 completed March 10, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:02 p.m.