Triple

T6409121
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 E127660 entity
Predicate relatedCaseLaw P3137 FINISHED
Object Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder
Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder is a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that private damages actions under SEC Rule 10b-5 require proof of scienter, not mere negligence.
E590643 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: Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder | Statement: [Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, relatedCaseLaw, Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder
Context triple: [Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, relatedCaseLaw, Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder]
  • A. Eisner v. Macomber
    Eisner v. Macomber is a 1920 U.S. Supreme Court case that held a pro rata stock dividend was not taxable income under the Sixteenth Amendment, shaping early federal income tax doctrine.
  • B. Lucas v. Earl
    Lucas v. Earl is a landmark 1930 U.S. Supreme Court tax law case that established the principle that income is taxed to the person who earns it, regardless of contractual arrangements to split or assign that income.
  • C. United States v. Arthur Andersen LLP
    United States v. Arthur Andersen LLP was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case overturning the criminal conviction of Enron’s accounting firm for obstruction of justice, significantly shaping standards for prosecuting corporate document destruction.
  • D. Sibbach v. Wilson & Co.
    Sibbach v. Wilson & Co. is a 1941 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the validity of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure under the Rules Enabling Act and helped define the scope of federal procedural rulemaking.
  • E. Argersinger v. Hamlin
    Argersinger v. Hamlin is a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court case that extended the right to counsel to defendants in misdemeanor cases that may result in imprisonment.
  • 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: Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder
Triple: [Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, relatedCaseLaw, Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder]
Generated description
Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder is a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that private damages actions under SEC Rule 10b-5 require proof of scienter, not mere negligence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder
Target entity description: Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder is a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that private damages actions under SEC Rule 10b-5 require proof of scienter, not mere negligence.
  • A. Eisner v. Macomber
    Eisner v. Macomber is a 1920 U.S. Supreme Court case that held a pro rata stock dividend was not taxable income under the Sixteenth Amendment, shaping early federal income tax doctrine.
  • B. Lucas v. Earl
    Lucas v. Earl is a landmark 1930 U.S. Supreme Court tax law case that established the principle that income is taxed to the person who earns it, regardless of contractual arrangements to split or assign that income.
  • C. United States v. Arthur Andersen LLP
    United States v. Arthur Andersen LLP was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case overturning the criminal conviction of Enron’s accounting firm for obstruction of justice, significantly shaping standards for prosecuting corporate document destruction.
  • D. Sibbach v. Wilson & Co.
    Sibbach v. Wilson & Co. is a 1941 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the validity of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure under the Rules Enabling Act and helped define the scope of federal procedural rulemaking.
  • E. Argersinger v. Hamlin
    Argersinger v. Hamlin is a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court case that extended the right to counsel to defendants in misdemeanor cases that may result in imprisonment.
  • 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_69c0083723d88190b1e37b19df162c08 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c068cdf25881908d42a5d979637ad6 completed March 22, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c638b38c888190aa2433173db64c90 completed March 27, 2026, 7:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c63acb98588190b03c31eb3d8bdc35 completed March 27, 2026, 8:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c63b334e608190b811b30e93199ac0 completed March 27, 2026, 8:09 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:41 p.m.