Triple

T20023411
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Indian Commerce Clause E494916 entity
Predicate citedInCase P4420 FINISHED
Object Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe
Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe is a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court case that affirmed the inherent authority of Native American tribes to impose taxes on non-Indian entities conducting business on tribal lands.
E1406812 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: Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe | Statement: [Indian Commerce Clause, citedInCase, Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe
Context triple: [Indian Commerce Clause, citedInCase, Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe]
  • A. Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States
    Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States is a 1955 U.S. Supreme Court case that denied compensable property rights to an Alaska Native group by relying on the Doctrine of Discovery to limit Indigenous land claims.
  • B. Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.
    Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. is a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case that held federal law preempts Arizona’s requirement that prospective voters provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering using the federal form.
  • C. Ex parte Crow Dog
    Ex parte Crow Dog is an 1883 U.S. Supreme Court case that affirmed tribal sovereignty by holding that federal courts lacked jurisdiction over crimes committed by one Native American against another on tribal land.
  • D. Osage Nation Courts
    Osage Nation Courts are the judicial branch of the Osage Nation, responsible for interpreting and applying tribal law and administering justice within the Osage reservation.
  • E. Navajo Nation court decisions
    Navajo Nation court decisions are judicial rulings that apply and develop Navajo law, including traditional Navajo common law principles, within the Navajo Nation’s legal system.
  • 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: Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe
Triple: [Indian Commerce Clause, citedInCase, Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe]
Generated description
Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe is a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court case that affirmed the inherent authority of Native American tribes to impose taxes on non-Indian entities conducting business on tribal lands.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe
Target entity description: Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe is a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court case that affirmed the inherent authority of Native American tribes to impose taxes on non-Indian entities conducting business on tribal lands.
  • A. Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States
    Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States is a 1955 U.S. Supreme Court case that denied compensable property rights to an Alaska Native group by relying on the Doctrine of Discovery to limit Indigenous land claims.
  • B. Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.
    Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. is a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case that held federal law preempts Arizona’s requirement that prospective voters provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering using the federal form.
  • C. Ex parte Crow Dog
    Ex parte Crow Dog is an 1883 U.S. Supreme Court case that affirmed tribal sovereignty by holding that federal courts lacked jurisdiction over crimes committed by one Native American against another on tribal land.
  • D. Osage Nation Courts
    Osage Nation Courts are the judicial branch of the Osage Nation, responsible for interpreting and applying tribal law and administering justice within the Osage reservation.
  • E. Navajo Nation court decisions
    Navajo Nation court decisions are judicial rulings that apply and develop Navajo law, including traditional Navajo common law principles, within the Navajo Nation’s legal system.
  • 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_69da626bfd288190aa5d65098b6433ae completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6628a1ecc8190bf6ee0bedb61e0b8 completed April 20, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a080e2d32008190a770addba6e44adb completed May 16, 2026, 6:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a080ec9c56481908b69834b5a1ae105 completed May 16, 2026, 6:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a080f6e218c8190b4c7b0d5de9f984c completed May 16, 2026, 6:32 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 3:35 p.m.