Triple

T5853235
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Henry J. Friendly E130086 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object “In Praise of Erie—and of the New Federal Common Law”
“In Praise of Erie—and of the New Federal Common Law” is a highly influential legal essay by Judge Henry J. Friendly that analyzes and defends the Supreme Court’s Erie doctrine while exploring the contours of modern federal common law.
E550212 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: “In Praise of Erie—and of the New Federal Common Law” | Statement: [Henry J. Friendly, notableWork, “In Praise of Erie—and of the New Federal Common Law”]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “In Praise of Erie—and of the New Federal Common Law”
Context triple: [Henry J. Friendly, notableWork, “In Praise of Erie—and of the New Federal Common Law”]
  • A. Erie doctrine
    The Erie doctrine is a fundamental U.S. legal principle requiring federal courts in diversity jurisdiction cases to apply state substantive law instead of creating or using federal general common law.
  • B. A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law
    A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law is a book in which Justice Antonin Scalia articulates and defends his textualist approach to statutory and constitutional interpretation in the American legal system.
  • C. The Spirit of the Common Law
    The Spirit of the Common Law is a seminal legal treatise that explores the historical development, underlying philosophy, and social function of the Anglo-American common law tradition.
  • D. Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania
    The Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania is the statewide court system that oversees all levels of Pennsylvania’s judiciary, including appellate, trial, and minor courts.
  • E. Law and Contemporary Problems
    Law and Contemporary Problems is a scholarly legal journal affiliated with Duke University School of Law that publishes interdisciplinary analyses of current legal and policy issues.
  • 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: “In Praise of Erie—and of the New Federal Common Law”
Triple: [Henry J. Friendly, notableWork, “In Praise of Erie—and of the New Federal Common Law”]
Generated description
“In Praise of Erie—and of the New Federal Common Law” is a highly influential legal essay by Judge Henry J. Friendly that analyzes and defends the Supreme Court’s Erie doctrine while exploring the contours of modern federal common law.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “In Praise of Erie—and of the New Federal Common Law”
Target entity description: “In Praise of Erie—and of the New Federal Common Law” is a highly influential legal essay by Judge Henry J. Friendly that analyzes and defends the Supreme Court’s Erie doctrine while exploring the contours of modern federal common law.
  • A. Erie doctrine
    The Erie doctrine is a fundamental U.S. legal principle requiring federal courts in diversity jurisdiction cases to apply state substantive law instead of creating or using federal general common law.
  • B. A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law
    A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law is a book in which Justice Antonin Scalia articulates and defends his textualist approach to statutory and constitutional interpretation in the American legal system.
  • C. The Spirit of the Common Law
    The Spirit of the Common Law is a seminal legal treatise that explores the historical development, underlying philosophy, and social function of the Anglo-American common law tradition.
  • D. Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania
    The Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania is the statewide court system that oversees all levels of Pennsylvania’s judiciary, including appellate, trial, and minor courts.
  • E. Law and Contemporary Problems
    Law and Contemporary Problems is a scholarly legal journal affiliated with Duke University School of Law that publishes interdisciplinary analyses of current legal and policy issues.
  • 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_69c0084de39081909eb34e6bed74215a completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c035529cf88190acc547ae839950e7 completed March 22, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0a1b8f8508190942ce1725884d254 completed March 23, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0a30d66088190b6e37a95527b273d completed March 23, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0a364931c81908d595d74cb4f9a7b completed March 23, 2026, 2:20 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:55 p.m.