Triple

T6748875
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Theodore Tilton E154289 entity
Predicate legalCase P3996 FINISHED
Object Tilton v. Beecher
Tilton v. Beecher was a highly publicized 19th-century American adultery trial in which journalist Theodore Tilton accused prominent preacher Henry Ward Beecher of having an affair with Tilton’s wife, Elizabeth.
E615808 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: Tilton v. Beecher | Statement: [Theodore Tilton, legalCase, Tilton v. Beecher]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tilton v. Beecher
Context triple: [Theodore Tilton, legalCase, Tilton v. Beecher]
  • A. Briggs v. Elliott
    Briggs v. Elliott was a landmark federal court case from South Carolina challenging racial segregation in public schools, and it became one of the key cases consolidated into Brown v. Board of Education.
  • B. Downes v. Bidwell
    Downes v. Bidwell is a 1901 U.S. Supreme Court case that helped establish the "Insular Cases" doctrine, holding that full constitutional rights do not automatically extend to all territories under American control.
  • C. Regan v. Wald
    Regan v. Wald is a 1984 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld federal restrictions on travel to Cuba, affirming broad executive authority over foreign affairs and economic sanctions.
  • D. Bolling v. Sharpe
    Bolling v. Sharpe is a 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case that held racial segregation in Washington, D.C. public schools unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.
  • E. Luther v. Borden
    Luther v. Borden is an 1849 U.S. Supreme Court case that established the "political question" doctrine by holding that the determination of a state's legitimate government under the Constitution’s Guarantee Clause is a matter for Congress, not the courts.
  • 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: Tilton v. Beecher
Triple: [Theodore Tilton, legalCase, Tilton v. Beecher]
Generated description
Tilton v. Beecher was a highly publicized 19th-century American adultery trial in which journalist Theodore Tilton accused prominent preacher Henry Ward Beecher of having an affair with Tilton’s wife, Elizabeth.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tilton v. Beecher
Target entity description: Tilton v. Beecher was a highly publicized 19th-century American adultery trial in which journalist Theodore Tilton accused prominent preacher Henry Ward Beecher of having an affair with Tilton’s wife, Elizabeth.
  • A. Briggs v. Elliott
    Briggs v. Elliott was a landmark federal court case from South Carolina challenging racial segregation in public schools, and it became one of the key cases consolidated into Brown v. Board of Education.
  • B. Downes v. Bidwell
    Downes v. Bidwell is a 1901 U.S. Supreme Court case that helped establish the "Insular Cases" doctrine, holding that full constitutional rights do not automatically extend to all territories under American control.
  • C. Regan v. Wald
    Regan v. Wald is a 1984 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld federal restrictions on travel to Cuba, affirming broad executive authority over foreign affairs and economic sanctions.
  • D. Bolling v. Sharpe
    Bolling v. Sharpe is a 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case that held racial segregation in Washington, D.C. public schools unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.
  • E. Luther v. Borden
    Luther v. Borden is an 1849 U.S. Supreme Court case that established the "political question" doctrine by holding that the determination of a state's legitimate government under the Constitution’s Guarantee Clause is a matter for Congress, not the courts.
  • 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_69c6880ef37881909268a5a7299b9293 completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d1d8bfa48190a7fc48102258ae17 completed March 27, 2026, 6:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c70b180f188190b380909c46fbce40 completed March 27, 2026, 10:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c70c334a90819084bb0b25bbc112cc completed March 27, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c70d0fcbc08190b3a7d0de3c634a5f completed March 27, 2026, 11:04 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:11 p.m.