Triple

T11714196
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lincoln–Douglas debates E278449 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object Charleston debate
The Charleston debate was one of the 1858 Lincoln–Douglas debates in Illinois, where Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas clashed over slavery and its expansion in the United States.
E942555 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: Charleston debate | Statement: [Lincoln–Douglas debates, hasPart, Charleston debate]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charleston debate
Context triple: [Lincoln–Douglas debates, hasPart, Charleston debate]
  • A. Hayne–Webster debate
    The Hayne–Webster debate was a famous 1830 U.S. Senate exchange between Robert Y. Hayne and Daniel Webster over states’ rights, nullification, and the nature of the federal Union.
  • B. Charleston Tea Party
    The Charleston Tea Party was a 1773 colonial protest in Charleston, South Carolina, in which residents seized and stored taxed British tea rather than allow its sale, reflecting growing resistance that paralleled the more famous Boston Tea Party.
  • C. Bascom Affair
    The Bascom Affair was an 1861 confrontation between the U.S. Army and the Chiricahua Apache that sparked a cycle of violence and is often seen as the event that ignited the Apache Wars.
  • D. South Carolina Exposition and Protest
    The South Carolina Exposition and Protest was an 1828 political document, secretly authored by John C. Calhoun, that articulated the doctrine of nullification by arguing that states could reject federal laws they deemed unconstitutional.
  • E. Wilmington insurrection of 1898
    The Wilmington insurrection of 1898 was a violent white supremacist coup in Wilmington, North Carolina, in which elected Black and biracial city leaders were overthrown, Black residents were terrorized and killed, and a democratically elected government was replaced by white Democrats.
  • 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: Charleston debate
Triple: [Lincoln–Douglas debates, hasPart, Charleston debate]
Generated description
The Charleston debate was one of the 1858 Lincoln–Douglas debates in Illinois, where Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas clashed over slavery and its expansion in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charleston debate
Target entity description: The Charleston debate was one of the 1858 Lincoln–Douglas debates in Illinois, where Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas clashed over slavery and its expansion in the United States.
  • A. Hayne–Webster debate
    The Hayne–Webster debate was a famous 1830 U.S. Senate exchange between Robert Y. Hayne and Daniel Webster over states’ rights, nullification, and the nature of the federal Union.
  • B. Charleston Tea Party
    The Charleston Tea Party was a 1773 colonial protest in Charleston, South Carolina, in which residents seized and stored taxed British tea rather than allow its sale, reflecting growing resistance that paralleled the more famous Boston Tea Party.
  • C. Bascom Affair
    The Bascom Affair was an 1861 confrontation between the U.S. Army and the Chiricahua Apache that sparked a cycle of violence and is often seen as the event that ignited the Apache Wars.
  • D. South Carolina Exposition and Protest
    The South Carolina Exposition and Protest was an 1828 political document, secretly authored by John C. Calhoun, that articulated the doctrine of nullification by arguing that states could reject federal laws they deemed unconstitutional.
  • E. Wilmington insurrection of 1898
    The Wilmington insurrection of 1898 was a violent white supremacist coup in Wilmington, North Carolina, in which elected Black and biracial city leaders were overthrown, Black residents were terrorized and killed, and a democratically elected government was replaced by white Democrats.
  • 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_69d6aaff2ce88190b4a1e4b341ad5377 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a4bf54d88190a8e07fbbf8d9e962 completed April 10, 2026, 7:20 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ef8397a4ac8190a71dfdd53bfa168a completed April 27, 2026, 3:41 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ef96b0169081909ad5c5d40a006e64 completed April 27, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69efb4dad6a481909a54511b6233993b completed April 27, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:40 p.m.