Triple

T3981300
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 42 U.S.C. § 1983 E85763 entity
Predicate interpretedBy P1044 FINISHED
Object Will v. Michigan Department of State Police, 491 U.S. 58 (1989)
Will v. Michigan Department of State Police, 491 U.S. 58 (1989), is a U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that neither a State nor its officials acting in their official capacities are “persons” subject to damages liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
E403306 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: Will v. Michigan Department of State Police, 491 U.S. 58 (1989) | Statement: [42 U.S.C. § 1983, interpretedBy, Will v. Michigan Department of State Police, 491 U.S. 58 (1989)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Will v. Michigan Department of State Police, 491 U.S. 58 (1989)
Context triple: [42 U.S.C. § 1983, interpretedBy, Will v. Michigan Department of State Police, 491 U.S. 58 (1989)]
  • A. Michigan v. Tucker
    Michigan v. Tucker is a 1974 U.S. Supreme Court decision that limited the exclusionary rule’s application to statements obtained without full Miranda warnings, holding that derivative evidence from such statements could still be admissible.
  • B. Maryland v. Wirtz
    Maryland v. Wirtz was a 1968 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the extension of federal minimum wage and overtime provisions to employees of state-operated schools and hospitals under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
  • C. South Dakota v. Dole
    South Dakota v. Dole is a 1987 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld Congress’s power to condition federal highway funds on states adopting a minimum drinking age of 21, helping define the scope of the federal spending power.
  • D. Near v. Minnesota
    Near v. Minnesota is a landmark 1931 U.S. Supreme Court decision that applied First Amendment free press protections to the states and established a strong presumption against prior restraint by government.
  • E. Brandenburg v. Ohio
    Brandenburg v. Ohio is a 1969 U.S. Supreme Court decision that significantly strengthened free speech protections by establishing the "imminent lawless action" test for when advocacy of violence can be punished under the First Amendment.
  • 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: Will v. Michigan Department of State Police, 491 U.S. 58 (1989)
Triple: [42 U.S.C. § 1983, interpretedBy, Will v. Michigan Department of State Police, 491 U.S. 58 (1989)]
Generated description
Will v. Michigan Department of State Police, 491 U.S. 58 (1989), is a U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that neither a State nor its officials acting in their official capacities are “persons” subject to damages liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Will v. Michigan Department of State Police, 491 U.S. 58 (1989)
Target entity description: Will v. Michigan Department of State Police, 491 U.S. 58 (1989), is a U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that neither a State nor its officials acting in their official capacities are “persons” subject to damages liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
  • A. Michigan v. Tucker
    Michigan v. Tucker is a 1974 U.S. Supreme Court decision that limited the exclusionary rule’s application to statements obtained without full Miranda warnings, holding that derivative evidence from such statements could still be admissible.
  • B. Maryland v. Wirtz
    Maryland v. Wirtz was a 1968 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the extension of federal minimum wage and overtime provisions to employees of state-operated schools and hospitals under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
  • C. South Dakota v. Dole
    South Dakota v. Dole is a 1987 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld Congress’s power to condition federal highway funds on states adopting a minimum drinking age of 21, helping define the scope of the federal spending power.
  • D. Near v. Minnesota
    Near v. Minnesota is a landmark 1931 U.S. Supreme Court decision that applied First Amendment free press protections to the states and established a strong presumption against prior restraint by government.
  • E. Brandenburg v. Ohio
    Brandenburg v. Ohio is a 1969 U.S. Supreme Court decision that significantly strengthened free speech protections by establishing the "imminent lawless action" test for when advocacy of violence can be punished under the First Amendment.
  • 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_69aed93908348190a26c8aaf4fab3e86 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aef9db804c8190ad96656cb7b1a4fe completed March 9, 2026, 4:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b54021ae388190a9518ea85b760736 completed March 14, 2026, 11:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b541340dbc819081538517267f390f completed March 14, 2026, 11:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b54193105c81909e2a4e368aae36e8 completed March 14, 2026, 11:08 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:33 p.m.