Triple

T4594651
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Buck v. Bell opinion E103577 entity
Predicate aroseFrom P1257 FINISHED
Object Virginia compulsory sterilization statute
The Virginia compulsory sterilization statute was an early 20th-century eugenics law authorizing the forced sterilization of people deemed "unfit," which became infamous as the law upheld in the U.S. Supreme Court’s Buck v. Bell decision.
E103577 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: Virginia compulsory sterilization statute | Statement: [Buck v. Bell opinion, aroseFrom, Virginia compulsory sterilization statute]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virginia compulsory sterilization statute
Context triple: [Buck v. Bell opinion, aroseFrom, Virginia compulsory sterilization statute]
  • A. Buck v. Bell opinion
    The Buck v. Bell opinion is a 1927 U.S. Supreme Court decision, authored by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., that notoriously upheld the constitutionality of compulsory sterilization laws and became a symbol of the excesses of the American eugenics movement.
  • B. Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act of 1982
    The Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act of 1982 is a state law that imposed various restrictions on abortion, several of which were challenged and reviewed in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
  • C. Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924
    The Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924 was a state law enforcing racial segregation and prohibiting interracial marriage by rigidly defining racial categories, later invalidated as unconstitutional in Loving v. Virginia.
  • D. Doe v. Bolton
    Doe v. Bolton is a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that, alongside Roe v. Wade, expanded and defined the scope of abortion rights by striking down restrictive state regulations.
  • E. Prigg v. Pennsylvania
    Prigg v. Pennsylvania was an 1842 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld federal supremacy over state laws in enforcing the return of escaped enslaved people, significantly strengthening the legal force of the Fugitive Slave Clause.
  • 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: Virginia compulsory sterilization statute
Triple: [Buck v. Bell opinion, aroseFrom, Virginia compulsory sterilization statute]
Generated description
The Virginia compulsory sterilization statute was an early 20th-century eugenics law authorizing the forced sterilization of people deemed "unfit," which became infamous as the law upheld in the U.S. Supreme Court’s Buck v. Bell decision.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virginia compulsory sterilization statute
Target entity description: The Virginia compulsory sterilization statute was an early 20th-century eugenics law authorizing the forced sterilization of people deemed "unfit," which became infamous as the law upheld in the U.S. Supreme Court’s Buck v. Bell decision.
  • A. Buck v. Bell opinion chosen
    The Buck v. Bell opinion is a 1927 U.S. Supreme Court decision, authored by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., that notoriously upheld the constitutionality of compulsory sterilization laws and became a symbol of the excesses of the American eugenics movement.
  • B. Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act of 1982
    The Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act of 1982 is a state law that imposed various restrictions on abortion, several of which were challenged and reviewed in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
  • C. Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924
    The Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924 was a state law enforcing racial segregation and prohibiting interracial marriage by rigidly defining racial categories, later invalidated as unconstitutional in Loving v. Virginia.
  • D. Doe v. Bolton
    Doe v. Bolton is a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that, alongside Roe v. Wade, expanded and defined the scope of abortion rights by striking down restrictive state regulations.
  • E. Prigg v. Pennsylvania
    Prigg v. Pennsylvania was an 1842 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld federal supremacy over state laws in enforcing the return of escaped enslaved people, significantly strengthening the legal force of the Fugitive Slave Clause.
  • F. None of above.

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_69bd43dccaf08190aa89e9991a289719 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd593e115081909b11149e02fe4ef3 completed March 20, 2026, 2:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdfa4552148190be200be028ef3fdd completed March 21, 2026, 1:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdfb36a18481908bb566db970b101a completed March 21, 2026, 1:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdfbc9bea48190a8a0bf13c6fa7191 completed March 21, 2026, 2 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:11 p.m.