Triple

T2993601
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette E81012 entity
Predicate defendant P2238 FINISHED
Object Walter Barnette
Walter Barnette was a Jehovah’s Witness student whose refusal to salute the American flag led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, which affirmed students’ First Amendment rights in public schools.
E318319 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: Walter Barnette | Statement: [West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, defendant, Walter Barnette]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Barnette
Context triple: [West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, defendant, Walter Barnette]
  • A. Everett Shinn
    Everett Shinn was an American painter and illustrator associated with the Ashcan School, known for his dynamic depictions of urban life and theatrical scenes in early 20th-century New York City.
  • B. Floyd Dell
    Floyd Dell was an American writer, critic, and prominent figure in early 20th-century literary radicalism and bohemian culture.
  • C. Sidney Blackmer
    Sidney Blackmer was an American stage, film, and television actor best known for his character roles in classic Hollywood cinema, including his memorable performance in "Rosemary's Baby."
  • D. Wallace Miller
    Wallace Miller was a local school district official involved in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Wisconsin v. Yoder concerning compulsory education and religious freedom.
  • E. Frank X. Leyendecker
    Frank X. Leyendecker was an American illustrator and commercial artist known for his magazine covers and advertising work in the early 20th century.
  • 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: Walter Barnette
Triple: [West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, defendant, Walter Barnette]
Generated description
Walter Barnette was a Jehovah’s Witness student whose refusal to salute the American flag led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, which affirmed students’ First Amendment rights in public schools.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Barnette
Target entity description: Walter Barnette was a Jehovah’s Witness student whose refusal to salute the American flag led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, which affirmed students’ First Amendment rights in public schools.
  • A. Everett Shinn
    Everett Shinn was an American painter and illustrator associated with the Ashcan School, known for his dynamic depictions of urban life and theatrical scenes in early 20th-century New York City.
  • B. Floyd Dell
    Floyd Dell was an American writer, critic, and prominent figure in early 20th-century literary radicalism and bohemian culture.
  • C. Sidney Blackmer
    Sidney Blackmer was an American stage, film, and television actor best known for his character roles in classic Hollywood cinema, including his memorable performance in "Rosemary's Baby."
  • D. Wallace Miller
    Wallace Miller was a local school district official involved in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Wisconsin v. Yoder concerning compulsory education and religious freedom.
  • E. Frank X. Leyendecker
    Frank X. Leyendecker was an American illustrator and commercial artist known for his magazine covers and advertising work in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69ad8b187fc8819085914d3c9ea3142d completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad99e291e0819089f81c0a7d7a6cd9 completed March 8, 2026, 3:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b12e3bac408190b09bafee840eb0d1 completed March 11, 2026, 8:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1320a28808190b0f751eb6f198795 completed March 11, 2026, 9:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1cb35a0048190bad4b190eb710ec1 completed March 11, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:59 p.m.