Triple

T1346858
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sydney Howard Gay E28589 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object Underground Railroad network
The Underground Railroad network was a clandestine system of routes, safe houses, and allies that helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom in the 19th-century United States.
E47328 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: Underground Railroad network | Statement: [Sydney Howard Gay, partOf, Underground Railroad network]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Underground Railroad network
Context triple: [Sydney Howard Gay, partOf, Underground Railroad network]
  • A. U.S. Civil Rights Trail
    The U.S. Civil Rights Trail is a collection of historically significant sites across the United States that commemorate key events, locations, and figures of the Civil Rights Movement.
  • B. A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves
    A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves is a mid-19th-century painting by American artist Eastman Johnson that dramatically depicts an enslaved family fleeing to Union lines during the Civil War.
  • C. American abolitionist movement
    The American abolitionist movement was a 19th-century social and political campaign in the United States dedicated to ending slavery and promoting the emancipation and equal rights of enslaved African Americans.
  • D. important transportation corridor during westward expansion of the United States
    The important transportation corridor during westward expansion of the United States refers to the Missouri River, a major waterway that enabled migration, trade, and military movement into the American frontier.
  • E. Fugitive Slave Clause
    The Fugitive Slave Clause was a provision in the U.S. Constitution that required escaped enslaved people who fled to free states to be returned to their enslavers.
  • 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: Underground Railroad network
Triple: [Sydney Howard Gay, partOf, Underground Railroad network]
Generated description
The Underground Railroad network was a clandestine system of routes, safe houses, and allies that helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom in the 19th-century United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Underground Railroad network
Target entity description: The Underground Railroad network was a clandestine system of routes, safe houses, and allies that helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom in the 19th-century United States.
  • A. U.S. Civil Rights Trail
    The U.S. Civil Rights Trail is a collection of historically significant sites across the United States that commemorate key events, locations, and figures of the Civil Rights Movement.
  • B. A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves
    A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves is a mid-19th-century painting by American artist Eastman Johnson that dramatically depicts an enslaved family fleeing to Union lines during the Civil War.
  • C. American abolitionist movement chosen
    The American abolitionist movement was a 19th-century social and political campaign in the United States dedicated to ending slavery and promoting the emancipation and equal rights of enslaved African Americans.
  • D. important transportation corridor during westward expansion of the United States
    The important transportation corridor during westward expansion of the United States refers to the Missouri River, a major waterway that enabled migration, trade, and military movement into the American frontier.
  • E. Fugitive Slave Clause
    The Fugitive Slave Clause was a provision in the U.S. Constitution that required escaped enslaved people who fled to free states to be returned to their enslavers.
  • F. None of above.

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_69a49854eb3481908c7d56b2e449a290 completed March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c2406c488190b2c04d54d9c5e94c completed March 1, 2026, 10:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acc639201c81908ed9c9ac37cd358f completed March 8, 2026, 12:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acc71a3e808190aecbb57a64f39b6b completed March 8, 2026, 12:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acc88e4ec08190945b366524b83088 completed March 8, 2026, 12:53 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:56 p.m.