Triple

T8067887
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alex Kozinski E188290 entity
Predicate notableCaseInvolvement P17092 FINISHED
Object Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc.
Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc. is a landmark U.S. copyright and trademark case in which the Ninth Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Alex Kozinski, held that the song "Barbie Girl" was protected parody and did not infringe Mattel’s rights in the Barbie doll.
E709613 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: Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc. | Statement: [Alex Kozinski, notableCaseInvolvement, Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc.
Context triple: [Alex Kozinski, notableCaseInvolvement, Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc.]
  • A. Hicklin v. Orbeck
    Hicklin v. Orbeck is a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down Alaska’s local-hire law for violating the Privileges and Immunities Clause by discriminating against nonresident workers.
  • B. Basic Inc. v. Levinson
    Basic Inc. v. Levinson is a landmark 1988 U.S. Supreme Court case that established the fraud-on-the-market theory and clarified the materiality standard for misstatements in securities fraud class actions.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Sherbert v. Verner
    Sherbert v. Verner is a landmark 1963 U.S. Supreme Court case that strengthened protections for religious liberty by requiring strict scrutiny of government actions that substantially burden individuals’ religious practices.
  • E. Connick v. Myers
    Connick v. Myers is a 1983 U.S. Supreme Court case that limited public employees’ First Amendment protections by holding that their speech is only constitutionally protected when it addresses matters of public concern rather than personal workplace grievances.
  • 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: Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc.
Triple: [Alex Kozinski, notableCaseInvolvement, Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc.]
Generated description
Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc. is a landmark U.S. copyright and trademark case in which the Ninth Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Alex Kozinski, held that the song "Barbie Girl" was protected parody and did not infringe Mattel’s rights in the Barbie doll.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc.
Target entity description: Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc. is a landmark U.S. copyright and trademark case in which the Ninth Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Alex Kozinski, held that the song "Barbie Girl" was protected parody and did not infringe Mattel’s rights in the Barbie doll.
  • A. Hicklin v. Orbeck
    Hicklin v. Orbeck is a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down Alaska’s local-hire law for violating the Privileges and Immunities Clause by discriminating against nonresident workers.
  • B. Basic Inc. v. Levinson
    Basic Inc. v. Levinson is a landmark 1988 U.S. Supreme Court case that established the fraud-on-the-market theory and clarified the materiality standard for misstatements in securities fraud class actions.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Sherbert v. Verner
    Sherbert v. Verner is a landmark 1963 U.S. Supreme Court case that strengthened protections for religious liberty by requiring strict scrutiny of government actions that substantially burden individuals’ religious practices.
  • E. Connick v. Myers
    Connick v. Myers is a 1983 U.S. Supreme Court case that limited public employees’ First Amendment protections by holding that their speech is only constitutionally protected when it addresses matters of public concern rather than personal workplace grievances.
  • 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_69ca82b42674819086840efea12478e5 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb3ff8a4fc8190a97fc7111ca7ec4d completed March 31, 2026, 3:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cc63e587908190980f1f026f4aa153 completed April 1, 2026, 12:16 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc651c5f788190908c6d84c58cba0f completed April 1, 2026, 12:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc6649d2348190996802140b455348 completed April 1, 2026, 12:26 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:27 p.m.