Triple

T11054861
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 E261347 entity
Predicate conflictedWith P4335 FINISHED
Object Northern personal liberty laws
Northern personal liberty laws were state-level statutes enacted in free states before the Civil War to protect alleged fugitive slaves by guaranteeing due process rights and limiting cooperation with federal slave-catching efforts.
E902470 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: Northern personal liberty laws | Statement: [Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, conflictedWith, Northern personal liberty laws]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Northern personal liberty laws
Context triple: [Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, conflictedWith, Northern personal liberty laws]
  • A. Border States
    The Border States were slaveholding U.S. states on the Union–Confederate frontier during the American Civil War, strategically significant for their divided loyalties and key geographic position.
  • B. Free State
    The Free State is a nickname for the U.S. state of Maryland, reflecting its historical stance on issues such as Prohibition and personal liberties.
  • C. Free State
    The Free State is a central South African province known for its vast farmlands, Afrikaans-speaking communities, and historic role in the former Orange Free State republic.
  • D. Federal enclaves doctrine
    The Federal enclaves doctrine is a legal principle governing the jurisdiction and authority of the federal government over lands within a state that are under exclusive or special federal control, such as military bases and federal buildings.
  • E. The Man Versus the State
    The Man Versus the State is a political philosophy book by Herbert Spencer that critiques government intervention and defends individual liberty and limited state power.
  • 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: Northern personal liberty laws
Triple: [Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, conflictedWith, Northern personal liberty laws]
Generated description
Northern personal liberty laws were state-level statutes enacted in free states before the Civil War to protect alleged fugitive slaves by guaranteeing due process rights and limiting cooperation with federal slave-catching efforts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Northern personal liberty laws
Target entity description: Northern personal liberty laws were state-level statutes enacted in free states before the Civil War to protect alleged fugitive slaves by guaranteeing due process rights and limiting cooperation with federal slave-catching efforts.
  • A. Border States
    The Border States were slaveholding U.S. states on the Union–Confederate frontier during the American Civil War, strategically significant for their divided loyalties and key geographic position.
  • B. Free State
    The Free State is a central South African province known for its vast farmlands, Afrikaans-speaking communities, and historic role in the former Orange Free State republic.
  • C. Free State
    The Free State is a nickname for the U.S. state of Maryland, reflecting its historical stance on issues such as Prohibition and personal liberties.
  • D. Federal enclaves doctrine
    The Federal enclaves doctrine is a legal principle governing the jurisdiction and authority of the federal government over lands within a state that are under exclusive or special federal control, such as military bases and federal buildings.
  • E. The Man Versus the State
    The Man Versus the State is a political philosophy book by Herbert Spencer that critiques government intervention and defends individual liberty and limited state power.
  • 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_69d6aa98650481908609c7c56bfa7902 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d798a0890481909c1d4f9d5b23f33a completed April 9, 2026, 12:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e3c86052148190adfc250c3dd27094 completed April 18, 2026, 6:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e3cadf271081908d2b794a4288892a completed April 18, 2026, 6:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e3cf08cf108190966b4abd0514a6ea completed April 18, 2026, 6:35 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:26 p.m.