Triple

T11714215
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lincoln–Douglas debates E278449 entity
Predicate significantEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Douglas stated the Freeport Doctrine at the Freeport debate
Douglas stated the Freeport Doctrine at the Freeport debate was a pivotal moment in the Lincoln–Douglas debates when Stephen A. Douglas articulated a position on slavery in the territories that alienated many Southern Democrats and shaped the political landscape before the American Civil War.
E942557 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: Douglas stated the Freeport Doctrine at the Freeport debate | Statement: [Lincoln–Douglas debates, significantEvent, Douglas stated the Freeport Doctrine at the Freeport debate]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Douglas stated the Freeport Doctrine at the Freeport debate
Context triple: [Lincoln–Douglas debates, significantEvent, Douglas stated the Freeport Doctrine at the Freeport debate]
  • A. Wilmot Proviso
    The Wilmot Proviso was a proposed 1846 U.S. legislative amendment that sought to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico, intensifying sectional tensions and shaping antebellum politics.
  • B. Tallmadge Amendment debate
    The Tallmadge Amendment debate was a pivotal 1819–1820 congressional clash over restricting slavery in Missouri that exposed deep sectional tensions and foreshadowed the collapse of the Era of Good Feelings.
  • C. Monroe Doctrine
    The Monroe Doctrine was a foundational 19th-century U.S. foreign policy principle that opposed European colonialism in the Americas and asserted a special sphere of influence for the United States in the Western Hemisphere.
  • D. Support for the Walker Tariff of 1846
    Support for the Walker Tariff of 1846 refers to George M. Dallas’s politically consequential decision as U.S. vice president to cast the tie-breaking Senate vote that secured passage of the low-tariff Walker Tariff, reshaping mid-19th-century American trade policy.
  • E. Cross of Gold speech
    The Cross of Gold speech was William Jennings Bryan’s famous 1896 Democratic National Convention address advocating bimetallism and denouncing the gold standard as oppressive to working people.
  • 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: Douglas stated the Freeport Doctrine at the Freeport debate
Triple: [Lincoln–Douglas debates, significantEvent, Douglas stated the Freeport Doctrine at the Freeport debate]
Generated description
Douglas stated the Freeport Doctrine at the Freeport debate was a pivotal moment in the Lincoln–Douglas debates when Stephen A. Douglas articulated a position on slavery in the territories that alienated many Southern Democrats and shaped the political landscape before the American Civil War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Douglas stated the Freeport Doctrine at the Freeport debate
Target entity description: Douglas stated the Freeport Doctrine at the Freeport debate was a pivotal moment in the Lincoln–Douglas debates when Stephen A. Douglas articulated a position on slavery in the territories that alienated many Southern Democrats and shaped the political landscape before the American Civil War.
  • A. Wilmot Proviso
    The Wilmot Proviso was a proposed 1846 U.S. legislative amendment that sought to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico, intensifying sectional tensions and shaping antebellum politics.
  • B. Tallmadge Amendment debate
    The Tallmadge Amendment debate was a pivotal 1819–1820 congressional clash over restricting slavery in Missouri that exposed deep sectional tensions and foreshadowed the collapse of the Era of Good Feelings.
  • C. Monroe Doctrine
    The Monroe Doctrine was a foundational 19th-century U.S. foreign policy principle that opposed European colonialism in the Americas and asserted a special sphere of influence for the United States in the Western Hemisphere.
  • D. Support for the Walker Tariff of 1846
    Support for the Walker Tariff of 1846 refers to George M. Dallas’s politically consequential decision as U.S. vice president to cast the tie-breaking Senate vote that secured passage of the low-tariff Walker Tariff, reshaping mid-19th-century American trade policy.
  • E. Cross of Gold speech
    The Cross of Gold speech was William Jennings Bryan’s famous 1896 Democratic National Convention address advocating bimetallism and denouncing the gold standard as oppressive to working people.
  • 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.