Triple
T1042537
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Navigation Acts |
E22498
|
entity |
| Predicate | significantEvent |
P259
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Navigation Act of 1651 targeting Dutch shipping
The Navigation Act of 1651 targeting Dutch shipping was an English mercantilist law designed to restrict foreign, especially Dutch, access to English trade and maritime commerce in order to bolster England’s own shipping and economic power.
|
E120528
|
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: Navigation Act of 1651 targeting Dutch shipping | Statement: [Navigation Acts, significantEvent, Navigation Act of 1651 targeting Dutch shipping]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Navigation Act of 1651 targeting Dutch shipping Context triple: [Navigation Acts, significantEvent, Navigation Act of 1651 targeting Dutch shipping]
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A.
Anglo-Dutch Wars
The Anglo-Dutch Wars were a series of 17th- and early 18th-century naval conflicts between England (later Great Britain) and the Dutch Republic over trade dominance and maritime supremacy.
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B.
British naval blockade of Europe
The British naval blockade of Europe was a Royal Navy strategy during the Napoleonic Wars that aimed to strangle French trade and weaken Napoleon’s empire by controlling maritime access to the European continent.
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C.
Embargo Act of 1807
The Embargo Act of 1807 was a U.S. law signed by President Thomas Jefferson that halted American exports in an attempt to pressure Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars, but instead severely damaged the U.S. economy and provoked widespread opposition.
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D.
British salt monopoly
The British salt monopoly was a colonial policy in India that granted the British government exclusive control over the production and sale of salt, heavily taxing this essential commodity and sparking widespread resistance such as Gandhi’s Salt March.
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E.
Tea Act
The Tea Act was a 1773 British law granting the East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies, helping spark colonial resistance that led to the American Revolution.
- 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: Navigation Act of 1651 targeting Dutch shipping Triple: [Navigation Acts, significantEvent, Navigation Act of 1651 targeting Dutch shipping]
Generated description
The Navigation Act of 1651 targeting Dutch shipping was an English mercantilist law designed to restrict foreign, especially Dutch, access to English trade and maritime commerce in order to bolster England’s own shipping and economic power.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Navigation Act of 1651 targeting Dutch shipping Target entity description: The Navigation Act of 1651 targeting Dutch shipping was an English mercantilist law designed to restrict foreign, especially Dutch, access to English trade and maritime commerce in order to bolster England’s own shipping and economic power.
-
A.
Anglo-Dutch Wars
The Anglo-Dutch Wars were a series of 17th- and early 18th-century naval conflicts between England (later Great Britain) and the Dutch Republic over trade dominance and maritime supremacy.
-
B.
British naval blockade of Europe
The British naval blockade of Europe was a Royal Navy strategy during the Napoleonic Wars that aimed to strangle French trade and weaken Napoleon’s empire by controlling maritime access to the European continent.
-
C.
Embargo Act of 1807
The Embargo Act of 1807 was a U.S. law signed by President Thomas Jefferson that halted American exports in an attempt to pressure Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars, but instead severely damaged the U.S. economy and provoked widespread opposition.
-
D.
British salt monopoly
The British salt monopoly was a colonial policy in India that granted the British government exclusive control over the production and sale of salt, heavily taxing this essential commodity and sparking widespread resistance such as Gandhi’s Salt March.
-
E.
Tea Act
The Tea Act was a 1773 British law granting the East India Company a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies, helping spark colonial resistance that led to the American Revolution.
- 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_69a493d91478819094cc01fb65564bc1 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4b845fa8c8190a7b69629883b62e2 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:05 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac3bc768948190b1cda4eea93fe4b6 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 2:52 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ac3c42c2c081909ccadbf944d3aa6c |
completed | March 7, 2026, 2:54 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ac3cbd43848190854add440753fdad |
completed | March 7, 2026, 2:57 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.