Triple

T18434217
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject R. v. Sparrow E450349 entity
Predicate precedentFor P3138 FINISHED
Object R. v. Nikal
R. v. Nikal is a Supreme Court of Canada decision that further clarified the scope of Aboriginal fishing rights and the Crown’s fiduciary obligations following the landmark R. v. Sparrow ruling.
E1324044 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: R. v. Nikal | Statement: [R. v. Sparrow, precedentFor, R. v. Nikal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: R. v. Nikal
Context triple: [R. v. Sparrow, precedentFor, R. v. Nikal]
  • A. R. v. Lavell
    R. v. Lavell is a landmark 1974 Supreme Court of Canada decision that addressed sex discrimination in the Indian Act and tested the scope and effectiveness of the Canadian Bill of Rights in protecting equality rights.
  • B. R. v. Drybones
    R. v. Drybones is a landmark 1970 Supreme Court of Canada decision that strengthened the Canadian Bill of Rights by ruling that a law discriminating against an Indigenous person was inoperative because it violated equality rights.
  • C. R. v. Sparrow
    R. v. Sparrow is a landmark 1990 Supreme Court of Canada decision that affirmed and clarified the constitutional protection of Indigenous fishing rights under section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982.
  • D. R v Oakes
    R v Oakes is a landmark 1986 Supreme Court of Canada decision that established the proportionality framework used to justify limits on rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
  • E. Delgamuukw v. British Columbia
    Delgamuukw v. British Columbia is a landmark 1997 Supreme Court of Canada decision that fundamentally defined and affirmed the nature, scope, and constitutional protection of Aboriginal title in Canada.
  • 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: R. v. Nikal
Triple: [R. v. Sparrow, precedentFor, R. v. Nikal]
Generated description
R. v. Nikal is a Supreme Court of Canada decision that further clarified the scope of Aboriginal fishing rights and the Crown’s fiduciary obligations following the landmark R. v. Sparrow ruling.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: R. v. Nikal
Target entity description: R. v. Nikal is a Supreme Court of Canada decision that further clarified the scope of Aboriginal fishing rights and the Crown’s fiduciary obligations following the landmark R. v. Sparrow ruling.
  • A. R. v. Lavell
    R. v. Lavell is a landmark 1974 Supreme Court of Canada decision that addressed sex discrimination in the Indian Act and tested the scope and effectiveness of the Canadian Bill of Rights in protecting equality rights.
  • B. R. v. Drybones
    R. v. Drybones is a landmark 1970 Supreme Court of Canada decision that strengthened the Canadian Bill of Rights by ruling that a law discriminating against an Indigenous person was inoperative because it violated equality rights.
  • C. R. v. Sparrow
    R. v. Sparrow is a landmark 1990 Supreme Court of Canada decision that affirmed and clarified the constitutional protection of Indigenous fishing rights under section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982.
  • D. R v Oakes
    R v Oakes is a landmark 1986 Supreme Court of Canada decision that established the proportionality framework used to justify limits on rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
  • E. Delgamuukw v. British Columbia
    Delgamuukw v. British Columbia is a landmark 1997 Supreme Court of Canada decision that fundamentally defined and affirmed the nature, scope, and constitutional protection of Aboriginal title in Canada.
  • 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_69d8d381d6388190a9e94e9c658174e4 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e51b1915d88190a1ecd81cd78ee7d2 completed April 19, 2026, 6:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03f0b15e948190a60db27c70f8ad93 completed May 13, 2026, 3:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03f290f4fc819085e8ec688021af44 completed May 13, 2026, 3:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03f2fc94b08190a3a69cced183dc86 completed May 13, 2026, 3:41 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:28 a.m.