Triple

T11385557
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Samuel Joseph May E269706 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object A Discourse on Slavery in the United States
A Discourse on Slavery in the United States is an 1830s abolitionist sermon by reformer Samuel Joseph May that denounces American slavery on moral and religious grounds.
E922926 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: A Discourse on Slavery in the United States | Statement: [Samuel Joseph May, notableWork, A Discourse on Slavery in the United States]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Discourse on Slavery in the United States
Context triple: [Samuel Joseph May, notableWork, A Discourse on Slavery in the United States]
  • A. A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States
    A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States is a mid-19th-century travel narrative and social commentary that examines the economy, society, and conditions of slavery in the American South.
  • B. A Summary View of the Slave Trade and of the Probable Consequences of Its Abolition
    "A Summary View of the Slave Trade and of the Probable Consequences of Its Abolition" is an influential late-18th-century abolitionist treatise that analyzes the moral, economic, and social impacts of the transatlantic slave trade and argues for its termination.
  • C. The Coming Slavery
    "The Coming Slavery" is an essay by Herbert Spencer warning that expanding state control and social legislation would gradually erode individual liberty and lead to a form of modern servitude.
  • D. American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
    American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses is an 1839 abolitionist compendium that exposes the brutality of slavery in the United States through extensive firsthand accounts and documentary evidence.
  • E. An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves
    An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves is an 18th-century abolitionist tract arguing for the humane treatment and moral reform of enslaved Africans within the British Empire.
  • 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: A Discourse on Slavery in the United States
Triple: [Samuel Joseph May, notableWork, A Discourse on Slavery in the United States]
Generated description
A Discourse on Slavery in the United States is an 1830s abolitionist sermon by reformer Samuel Joseph May that denounces American slavery on moral and religious grounds.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Discourse on Slavery in the United States
Target entity description: A Discourse on Slavery in the United States is an 1830s abolitionist sermon by reformer Samuel Joseph May that denounces American slavery on moral and religious grounds.
  • A. A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States
    A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States is a mid-19th-century travel narrative and social commentary that examines the economy, society, and conditions of slavery in the American South.
  • B. A Summary View of the Slave Trade and of the Probable Consequences of Its Abolition
    "A Summary View of the Slave Trade and of the Probable Consequences of Its Abolition" is an influential late-18th-century abolitionist treatise that analyzes the moral, economic, and social impacts of the transatlantic slave trade and argues for its termination.
  • C. The Coming Slavery
    "The Coming Slavery" is an essay by Herbert Spencer warning that expanding state control and social legislation would gradually erode individual liberty and lead to a form of modern servitude.
  • D. American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
    American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses is an 1839 abolitionist compendium that exposes the brutality of slavery in the United States through extensive firsthand accounts and documentary evidence.
  • E. An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves
    An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves is an 18th-century abolitionist tract arguing for the humane treatment and moral reform of enslaved Africans within the British Empire.
  • 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_69d6aacdbc6c8190af6dc3d5f5d22836 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7fc378d808190b587a044ede67e1e completed April 9, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e58c1d4b188190b83cfad0cc95483e completed April 20, 2026, 2:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e5932d3cb88190807acdcdc3aaa9fc completed April 20, 2026, 2:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e59a0ab7e081908cb8761c4f82c664 completed April 20, 2026, 3:14 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:34 p.m.