Triple

T23300926
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject D & C Builders Ltd v Rees E590299 entity
Predicate appliesPrecedent P3138 FINISHED
Object Foakes v Beer
Foakes v Beer is a landmark 1884 English contract law case establishing that part payment of a debt does not discharge the whole debt without fresh consideration.
E1580239 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: Foakes v Beer | Statement: [D & C Builders Ltd v Rees, appliesPrecedent, Foakes v Beer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Foakes v Beer
Context triple: [D & C Builders Ltd v Rees, appliesPrecedent, Foakes v Beer]
  • A. Beer v. United States
    Beer v. United States is a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court case that defined the “non-retrogression” standard for evaluating changes to voting laws under the Voting Rights Act.
  • B. Brewer v. Williams
    Brewer v. Williams is a landmark 1977 U.S. Supreme Court case that clarified Sixth Amendment right-to-counsel protections during police interrogations, particularly regarding the admissibility of statements deliberately elicited from an indicted defendant in the absence of counsel.
  • C. Keeble v Hickeringill
    Keeble v Hickeringill is an early 18th-century English common law case famous for establishing that malicious interference with another’s lawful use of their land, such as scaring away ducks from a decoy pond, can give rise to an action for damages.
  • D. Ray v. Blair
    Ray v. Blair is a 1952 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld a state's authority to require presidential electors to pledge support for their party's nominees as a condition of appointment.
  • E. Stack v. Boyle
    Stack v. Boyle is a 1951 U.S. Supreme Court case that established constitutional limits on excessive bail in the context of prosecutions under the Smith Act.
  • 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: Foakes v Beer
Triple: [D & C Builders Ltd v Rees, appliesPrecedent, Foakes v Beer]
Generated description
Foakes v Beer is a landmark 1884 English contract law case establishing that part payment of a debt does not discharge the whole debt without fresh consideration.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Foakes v Beer
Target entity description: Foakes v Beer is a landmark 1884 English contract law case establishing that part payment of a debt does not discharge the whole debt without fresh consideration.
  • A. Beer v. United States
    Beer v. United States is a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court case that defined the “non-retrogression” standard for evaluating changes to voting laws under the Voting Rights Act.
  • B. Brewer v. Williams
    Brewer v. Williams is a landmark 1977 U.S. Supreme Court case that clarified Sixth Amendment right-to-counsel protections during police interrogations, particularly regarding the admissibility of statements deliberately elicited from an indicted defendant in the absence of counsel.
  • C. Keeble v Hickeringill
    Keeble v Hickeringill is an early 18th-century English common law case famous for establishing that malicious interference with another’s lawful use of their land, such as scaring away ducks from a decoy pond, can give rise to an action for damages.
  • D. Ray v. Blair
    Ray v. Blair is a 1952 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld a state's authority to require presidential electors to pledge support for their party's nominees as a condition of appointment.
  • E. Stack v. Boyle
    Stack v. Boyle is a 1951 U.S. Supreme Court case that established constitutional limits on excessive bail in the context of prosecutions under the Smith Act.
  • 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_69e25d1c0ecc8190a355aa229f06d0e0 completed April 17, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f196d37fd08190ad2d199c54324c02 completed April 29, 2026, 5:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c4c9730908190960a47f7fee9e0c2 completed May 19, 2026, 11:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c4ee292f08190a44326d433f37c65 completed May 19, 2026, 11:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c4f796b688190a8971ebd238e08f2 completed May 19, 2026, 11:54 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:04 p.m.