Triple

T4605182
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co. E100413 entity
Predicate judge P3169 FINISHED
Object Frederick Collin
Frederick Collin was an American jurist who served as a judge on the New York Court of Appeals and authored the landmark opinion in MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., which helped establish modern product liability law.
E456039 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: Frederick Collin | Statement: [MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., judge, Frederick Collin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederick Collin
Context triple: [MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., judge, Frederick Collin]
  • A. Frank Campion
    Frank Campion is a Canadian municipal politician who serves as the mayor of Welland, Ontario.
  • B. Jack Fawcett
    Jack Fawcett was the son of British explorer Percy Fawcett who disappeared with his father during their ill-fated 1925 expedition into the Amazon in search of the lost city of "Z."
  • C. Arthur Gordon
    Arthur Gordon was a notable member of the Philhellenes, a group distinguished by its strong admiration for and support of Greek culture and causes.
  • D. John Robie
    John Robie is a retired jewel thief known as "The Cat" who becomes embroiled in a new string of robberies on the French Riviera in Alfred Hitchcock's film "To Catch a Thief."
  • E. Richard Rathbone
    Richard Rathbone is a historian known for his scholarship on African history, particularly the political and social history of Ghana.
  • 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: Frederick Collin
Triple: [MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., judge, Frederick Collin]
Generated description
Frederick Collin was an American jurist who served as a judge on the New York Court of Appeals and authored the landmark opinion in MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., which helped establish modern product liability law.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederick Collin
Target entity description: Frederick Collin was an American jurist who served as a judge on the New York Court of Appeals and authored the landmark opinion in MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., which helped establish modern product liability law.
  • A. Frank Campion
    Frank Campion is a Canadian municipal politician who serves as the mayor of Welland, Ontario.
  • B. Jack Fawcett
    Jack Fawcett was the son of British explorer Percy Fawcett who disappeared with his father during their ill-fated 1925 expedition into the Amazon in search of the lost city of "Z."
  • C. Arthur Gordon
    Arthur Gordon was a notable member of the Philhellenes, a group distinguished by its strong admiration for and support of Greek culture and causes.
  • D. John Robie
    John Robie is a retired jewel thief known as "The Cat" who becomes embroiled in a new string of robberies on the French Riviera in Alfred Hitchcock's film "To Catch a Thief."
  • E. Richard Rathbone
    Richard Rathbone is a historian known for his scholarship on African history, particularly the political and social history of Ghana.
  • 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_69bdfa6d24808190a4edc426b8b719cd completed March 21, 2026, 1:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdfbea628c81908f96e706d650ef9f completed March 21, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdfc97fc54819093e0cff18a40bde2 completed March 21, 2026, 2:04 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:12 p.m.