Triple

T17458388
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Biz Markie E425088 entity
Predicate legalCase P3996 FINISHED
Object Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc. is a landmark 1991 U.S. copyright case that effectively transformed the legal treatment of digital sampling in hip-hop and popular music by ruling against Biz Markie for unauthorized use of a Gilbert O’Sullivan song.
E1270619 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: Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc. | Statement: [Biz Markie, legalCase, Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Context triple: [Biz Markie, legalCase, Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc.]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Apple Corps v. Apple Computer
    Apple Corps v. Apple Computer was a series of high-profile trademark lawsuits between the Beatles’ record company and the technology firm over the use of the “Apple” name and logo in music-related products and services.
  • C. Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.
    Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. is a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court copyright case that held the equitable doctrine of laches cannot bar claims for damages brought within the Copyright Act’s three-year statute of limitations.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Lugosi v. Universal Pictures
    Lugosi v. Universal Pictures was a landmark California legal case that addressed whether a celebrity’s right of publicity could be inherited and controlled by their heirs after death.
  • 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: Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Triple: [Biz Markie, legalCase, Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc.]
Generated description
Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc. is a landmark 1991 U.S. copyright case that effectively transformed the legal treatment of digital sampling in hip-hop and popular music by ruling against Biz Markie for unauthorized use of a Gilbert O’Sullivan song.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc.
Target entity description: Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc. is a landmark 1991 U.S. copyright case that effectively transformed the legal treatment of digital sampling in hip-hop and popular music by ruling against Biz Markie for unauthorized use of a Gilbert O’Sullivan song.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Apple Corps v. Apple Computer
    Apple Corps v. Apple Computer was a series of high-profile trademark lawsuits between the Beatles’ record company and the technology firm over the use of the “Apple” name and logo in music-related products and services.
  • C. Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.
    Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. is a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court copyright case that held the equitable doctrine of laches cannot bar claims for damages brought within the Copyright Act’s three-year statute of limitations.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Lugosi v. Universal Pictures
    Lugosi v. Universal Pictures was a landmark California legal case that addressed whether a celebrity’s right of publicity could be inherited and controlled by their heirs after death.
  • 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_69d889db0ba481908402409af3b37917 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4514385e48190b97a257bb3d07d2d completed April 19, 2026, 3:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01b820024c8190bd8f083b426f82f5 completed May 11, 2026, 11:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01b90e68d08190be86aee8d6692ce1 completed May 11, 2026, 11:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01b993324081908b561700bbeac11c completed May 11, 2026, 11:12 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:47 a.m.