Triple

T4397654
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sherman Antitrust Act E99530 entity
Predicate landmarkCase P9728 FINISHED
Object United States v. E. C. Knight Co.
United States v. E. C. Knight Co. was an 1895 U.S. Supreme Court decision that sharply limited the federal government’s power to regulate monopolies under the Commerce Clause, weakening early enforcement of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
E436008 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: United States v. E. C. Knight Co. | Statement: [Sherman Antitrust Act, landmarkCase, United States v. E. C. Knight Co.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States v. E. C. Knight Co.
Context triple: [Sherman Antitrust Act, landmarkCase, United States v. E. C. Knight Co.]
  • A. Lochner v. New York
    Lochner v. New York is a landmark 1905 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down a state labor regulation and became emblematic of the era in which the Court used substantive due process to protect economic liberty and limit government regulation of business.
  • B. Hammer v. Dagenhart
    Hammer v. Dagenhart was a 1918 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down federal child labor regulations under the Commerce Clause, later repudiated as a symbol of restrictive interpretations of federal power.
  • C. NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.
    NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. is a landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld federal power to regulate labor relations, marking a major expansion of Congress’s authority over interstate commerce.
  • D. Downes v. Bidwell
    Downes v. Bidwell is a 1901 U.S. Supreme Court case that helped establish the "Insular Cases" doctrine, holding that full constitutional rights do not automatically extend to all territories under American control.
  • E. United States v. Butler
    United States v. Butler was a 1936 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down key provisions of the New Deal’s Agricultural Adjustment Act as an unconstitutional use of federal taxing and spending power.
  • 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: United States v. E. C. Knight Co.
Triple: [Sherman Antitrust Act, landmarkCase, United States v. E. C. Knight Co.]
Generated description
United States v. E. C. Knight Co. was an 1895 U.S. Supreme Court decision that sharply limited the federal government’s power to regulate monopolies under the Commerce Clause, weakening early enforcement of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States v. E. C. Knight Co.
Target entity description: United States v. E. C. Knight Co. was an 1895 U.S. Supreme Court decision that sharply limited the federal government’s power to regulate monopolies under the Commerce Clause, weakening early enforcement of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
  • A. Lochner v. New York
    Lochner v. New York is a landmark 1905 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down a state labor regulation and became emblematic of the era in which the Court used substantive due process to protect economic liberty and limit government regulation of business.
  • B. Hammer v. Dagenhart
    Hammer v. Dagenhart was a 1918 U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down federal child labor regulations under the Commerce Clause, later repudiated as a symbol of restrictive interpretations of federal power.
  • C. NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.
    NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. is a landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld federal power to regulate labor relations, marking a major expansion of Congress’s authority over interstate commerce.
  • D. Downes v. Bidwell
    Downes v. Bidwell is a 1901 U.S. Supreme Court case that helped establish the "Insular Cases" doctrine, holding that full constitutional rights do not automatically extend to all territories under American control.
  • E. United States v. Butler
    United States v. Butler was a 1936 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down key provisions of the New Deal’s Agricultural Adjustment Act as an unconstitutional use of federal taxing and spending power.
  • 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_69b345506b408190b0e3dee616738a7d completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b352adce588190b9e6ed53458aa1e1 completed March 12, 2026, 11:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5e53ae7bc8190b216319e522b11c6 completed March 14, 2026, 10:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5e5f8b9bc8190abb35710e2ddbe5e completed March 14, 2026, 10:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5e62af694819086b3eddb71f591d2 completed March 14, 2026, 10:50 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:20 p.m.