Triple

T4605121
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. E100412 entity
Predicate dissentingOpinionBy P4515 FINISHED
Object William S. Andrews
William S. Andrews was an American judge best known for his influential dissent in the landmark tort law case Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., which helped shape modern concepts of proximate cause.
E648117 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: William S. Andrews | Statement: [Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., dissentingOpinionBy, William S. Andrews]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William S. Andrews
Context triple: [Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., dissentingOpinionBy, William S. Andrews]
  • A. William G. Anderson
    William G. Anderson was an American osteopathic physician and prominent civil rights leader who helped spearhead desegregation efforts in the early 1960s.
  • B. George R. Roberts
    George R. Roberts is an American billionaire investor and co-founder of the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), known as a pioneer in leveraged buyouts.
  • C. J. N. Andrews
    J. N. Andrews was a prominent 19th-century Seventh-day Adventist scholar, missionary, and theologian, recognized as one of the denomination’s earliest and most influential leaders.
  • D. Arthur B. McBride
    Arthur B. McBride was an American businessman best known for establishing and initially owning the Cleveland Browns professional football franchise.
  • E. Louis W. Hill
    Louis W. Hill was an American railroad executive and businessman who helped expand and promote the Great Northern Railway and tourism in the northwestern United States.
  • 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: William S. Andrews
Triple: [Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., dissentingOpinionBy, William S. Andrews]
Generated description
William S. Andrews was an American judge best known for his influential dissent in the landmark tort law case Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., which helped shape modern concepts of proximate cause.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William S. Andrews
Target entity description: William S. Andrews was an American judge best known for his influential dissent in the landmark tort law case Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., which helped shape modern concepts of proximate cause.
  • A. William G. Anderson
    William G. Anderson was an American osteopathic physician and prominent civil rights leader who helped spearhead desegregation efforts in the early 1960s.
  • B. George R. Roberts
    George R. Roberts is an American billionaire investor and co-founder of the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), known as a pioneer in leveraged buyouts.
  • C. J. N. Andrews
    J. N. Andrews was a prominent 19th-century Seventh-day Adventist scholar, missionary, and theologian, recognized as one of the denomination’s earliest and most influential leaders.
  • D. Arthur B. McBride
    Arthur B. McBride was an American businessman best known for establishing and initially owning the Cleveland Browns professional football franchise.
  • E. Louis W. Hill
    Louis W. Hill was an American railroad executive and businessman who helped expand and promote the Great Northern Railway and tourism in the northwestern United States.
  • 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_69bd43cce1e08190a07d53af6a9b6c24 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd5999f9c88190a43309573df61159 completed March 20, 2026, 2:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7bf5fcf588190bcd52c539c3958b0 completed March 28, 2026, 11:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7c0116fc081908a9a5facb3a6bcd6 completed March 28, 2026, 11:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7c073b6208190b2983b6eae0ddcd3 completed March 28, 2026, 11:50 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:12 p.m.