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]
  • 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
  • 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.