Triple

T6919447
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Court of Chancery E160144 entity
Predicate notableCase P4 FINISHED
Object Foss v Harbottle
Foss v Harbottle is an 1843 English company law case that established the rule that only a company itself, rather than individual shareholders, can sue for wrongs done to the company, subject to limited exceptions.
E628501 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: Foss v Harbottle | Statement: [Court of Chancery, notableCase, Foss v Harbottle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Foss v Harbottle
Context triple: [Court of Chancery, notableCase, Foss v Harbottle]
  • A. Inns of Chancery
    The Inns of Chancery were medieval and early modern English legal institutions that served as preparatory training colleges and residences for law students and clerks associated with the Inns of Court in London.
  • B. Somerset v Stewart
    Somerset v Stewart was a landmark 1772 English court case that effectively declared slavery unsupported by English common law, becoming a pivotal moment in the British abolitionist movement.
  • C. Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge
    Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge was an 1837 U.S. Supreme Court case that limited implied corporate rights in public charters and affirmed states’ power to promote the public interest over private monopoly claims.
  • D. Dartmouth College v. Woodward
    Dartmouth College v. Woodward is an 1819 U.S. Supreme Court case that established the protection of corporate charters as contracts under the Constitution, limiting states’ power to alter them.
  • E. Ruskin v. Whistler libel case
    The Ruskin v. Whistler libel case was an 1878 British lawsuit in which American-born artist James McNeill Whistler sued influential critic John Ruskin for defamation over a harsh review of his painting, highlighting tensions between avant-garde art and traditional criticism.
  • 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: Foss v Harbottle
Triple: [Court of Chancery, notableCase, Foss v Harbottle]
Generated description
Foss v Harbottle is an 1843 English company law case that established the rule that only a company itself, rather than individual shareholders, can sue for wrongs done to the company, subject to limited exceptions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Foss v Harbottle
Target entity description: Foss v Harbottle is an 1843 English company law case that established the rule that only a company itself, rather than individual shareholders, can sue for wrongs done to the company, subject to limited exceptions.
  • A. Inns of Chancery
    The Inns of Chancery were medieval and early modern English legal institutions that served as preparatory training colleges and residences for law students and clerks associated with the Inns of Court in London.
  • B. Somerset v Stewart
    Somerset v Stewart was a landmark 1772 English court case that effectively declared slavery unsupported by English common law, becoming a pivotal moment in the British abolitionist movement.
  • C. Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge
    Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge was an 1837 U.S. Supreme Court case that limited implied corporate rights in public charters and affirmed states’ power to promote the public interest over private monopoly claims.
  • D. Dartmouth College v. Woodward
    Dartmouth College v. Woodward is an 1819 U.S. Supreme Court case that established the protection of corporate charters as contracts under the Constitution, limiting states’ power to alter them.
  • E. Ruskin v. Whistler libel case
    The Ruskin v. Whistler libel case was an 1878 British lawsuit in which American-born artist James McNeill Whistler sued influential critic John Ruskin for defamation over a harsh review of his painting, highlighting tensions between avant-garde art and traditional criticism.
  • 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_69c6883ab1008190a07129ff06f625d9 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d9f8fc888190949d5779ccbe91e6 completed March 27, 2026, 7:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7512f7fac81908d0891f4de301535 completed March 28, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c751db72408190b89e2ab08730ca43 completed March 28, 2026, 3:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c75264e65081908859551feaf1006c completed March 28, 2026, 4 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:26 p.m.